Sunday, March 7, 2010

Women's seed race 3/7/2010

Scores from 3/6/2010:


Green Bay 68 Cleveland State 59
Butler 73 Loyola 46
Valparaiso 88 UIC 77
Detroit 58 Wright State 54
Milwaukee 73 Youngstown State 39

Seed Team Conf 1st round matchup
---- ---------- ---- -----------------
#1 Green Bay 15-3 Hosts #8-#9 winner
#2 Butler 14-4 Hosts #7-#10 winner
#3 Detroit 14-4 Hosts #6 Loyola
#4 Cleveland State 11-7 Hosts #5 UIC
#5 UIC 9-9
#6 Loyola 9-9
#7 Wright State 6-12 Hosts #10 YSU
#8 Valparaiso 6-12
#9 Milwaukee 6-12
#10 Youngstown State 0-18

Previously clinched seeds: (1) Green Bay, (4) CSU, (7) WSU, (10) YSU.

Butler clinched the 2 seed by beating Loyola. Detroit tied them with their win over WSU, but Butler swept Detroit, so Butler wins the tiebreaker. Detroit gets the 3 seed.

Butler's win over Loyola also clinched the 5 seed for UIC, because UIC split with Butler while Loyola was swept by them.

I missed one scenario in saying that Milwaukee could clcinch the 8 seed by beating YSU: If Valpo beats UIC and WSU loses to Detroit, there's a 3-way tie at 6-12.

Since this is exactly what happened, when we look at head-to-head we see:

WSU swept Milwaukee and split with Valpo, while Milwaukee split with Valpo. Therefore:

WSU: 3-1 for the 7 seed
VU: 2-2 for the 8 seed
UWM: 1-3 for the 9 seed

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