I don’t think the website is correct. Lowest seed BYU can get us the 5th seed. They are two games up from Kansas with two games to go and BYU has the tie breaker. They will most likely be a fourth or fifth seed depending on the Iowa game. If they win out and Arizona loses to Kansas the last week then they are tied with Arizona. I don’t know who has the tiebreaker there. But the fourth and 5th seed in the tournament will go through Houston. I want BYU to have a second shot at Houston. I think it’s a much closer game and if they play like they have the past few weeks they might beat Houston.
True.
CougarPaul questioned the website and did not take a shot at Fish. Hmmmmm. Maybe that’s why fish and others respond the way they do to h.
You reap what you sow.
Seems to me BYU has too many wins to have enough losses to drop a seed.
The only possible way for BYU to get a better conference seed is to win more than AZ, ISU and TT.
Beating ISU and Utah will give BYU a 4th seed unless TT or AZ lose enough.
Because BYU lost to TT, TT would get the tiebreaker, and BYU would fall to a 3 seed.
I haven’t worked out what the tiebreakers are with AZ, but a first glance seems to indicate that the early season losses to Houston and TT means that AZ owns the tiebreaker against BYU, so BYU would still fall to 4 seed.
Which means for BYU to move from the 4 or 5 seed, BYU needs TT and AZ to go a combined 0-4 this week…given their schedules each plays ASU, and the other two games are Kansas and Colorado, 0-4 seems unlikely.
If BYU gets a 4 seed it means likely one less game before facing Houston.
If BYU gets a 5 seed, meaning losing at ISU, or possibly against the Utes, then no double bye.
No double bye means most likely beating some team on the first night, I would guess UCF, then ISU the second night, then Houston the third night, with TT or AZ most likely waiting in the finals.
So win this week and probably ISU, Houston, and then conference finals against TT or AZ.
Lose against ISU this week, face most likely a just below bubble team fighting for their last chance to dance, then face ISU, Houston and the final.
As ever winning cures all.
But chances are strong that BYU will meet Iowa State twice in the next two weeks.
One on their court, the other in KC with a crowd most likely favoring them.
I keep hearing that with the win against ISU we locked up the 4th seed regardless of the game against Utah. It’s locked up. Utah is therefore a trap game.
AZ has the tie breaker over BYU, at least from all the sources I listen to.
So BYU plays Utah, then Iowa State. I think they fix their turnover problems and beat them by double digits. With their new found physicality, I think they have a legitimate chance against Houston. I also heard that Houston doesn’t care about conference playoff. Not sure how true that is.
With the Iowa win last night, this is a sweet 16 team. If they beat Houston, they become a real possibility of a final four team. I’m having a hard time holding back the optimism.
This is my understanding, I could be wrong. Tie breakers are 1) head to head, 2) record against common opponents (since we play everyone in the conference this is a tie by definition) 3) record against teams starting at the top. For #1 head to head, We are 1-1 with AZ, so we go to # 2. By default in basketball, we skip #2 and go to #3. For #3, We start at the highest rated team Houston. We are both 0-1 against Houston. Next team is TT. AZ is 1-1 and we are 0-1, so they win the tie break against us.
