SEC Tournament Seeding

muddy

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<div>Long time lurker/first time poster here.</div><div>
</div><div>Haven't seen where anyone else has tried to tackle this yet, so I thought I'd give it a shot.</div><div>
</div><div>The West is very straightforward:</div><div>1) Bama</div><div>2) MSU</div><div>3) UPig/TSUN Winner</div><div>4) UPig/TSUN Loser</div><div>5) Auburn/LSU Winner</div><div>6) Auburn/LSU Loser</div><div>
</div><div>The East is much more of a cluster17 as only the Gators (#1) and Cocks (#6) are locked into their seeds. Goinginto this weekend's games all four remaining East teams have a shot at the #2 seed. The three games thatdetermine East seeding are UGA at Bama, Gators at Vandy, and UK at UT.</div><div>
</div><div>Before going over the seven different East seeding scenarios, I'm going to list the tie-breakers (hopefullythey are right). The two team tie-breaker order is head to head, then division record, then record vs. #1in division, then non-division record, then record vs. #1 in non-division, then coin toss. For 3 or more teamsthe tiebreaker order is combined record against all teams tied, then division record, then record vs. #1 indivision, then non-division record, then record vs. #1 in non-division, then coin toss.</div><div>
</div><div>If Bama and UK win their games the order for will be 2) UK 3) Vandy 4) UGA 5) UT regardless ofthe outcome of the Gators/Vandy game (UK has the tiebreaker over Vandy for division record).</div><div>
</div><div>If Bama and the Gators win but UK loses the order will be 2) UT (4-2 in combined record)3) UK (3-3 in combined record but better division record than Vandy) 4) Vandy (3-3 in combined record)5) UGA (2-4 in combined record).</div><div>
</div><div>If Bama and Vandy win but UK loses the order would be 2) Vandy 3) UK (Better record vs. Gators)4) UT (Better division record than UGA) 5) UGA.</div><div>
</div><div>If UGA, the Gators, and UK win the order would be 2) UK (Better division record than UGA) 3) UGA 4) Vandy 5) UT.</div><div>
</div><div>If UGA and the Gators win but UK loses the order would be 2) UGA 3) UT (3-1 in combined games) 4) UK (2-2 incombined games) 5) Vandy (1-3 in combined games).</div><div>
</div><div>If UGA, Vandy, and UK win the order would be 2) Vandy (3-1 in combined games) 3) KY (2-2 in combined games)4) UGA (1-3 in combined games) 5) UT.</div><div>
</div><div>If UGA and Vandy win but UK loses the order would be 2) Vandy (Head to head over UGA) 3) UGA 4) UK (Better recordvs. Gators than UT) 5) UT.</div>
 

drt7891

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I am going off a hunch here... Vandy, historically, does not play well in the SECT (Last year was a good example. I don't remember the last time they have even made it to the semi finals). Kentucky... well... I'd rather play a young Kentucky team that has struggled on the road than UT. We have Florida in our bracket either way, but it is going to be that critical E(3)-W(6) game. If we draw UT, that will be a very very tough game. Even UGA might be winnable. My point is, it doesn't matter who we play, we are going down hell's road this year in the SECT and even winning that first game is going to be a big challenge.
 

GloryDawg

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At best the number 2 seed will only have 10 SEC wins. If we win Saturday we will have nine wins. We could end up being three and three vs the East with a win over the number one seed.Hell we might have been the number two seed coming out of the East.Just saying.
 

drt7891

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If we win Saturday, we will be 3-3 vs. the East this year, though... (losses being against UGA, UK, and Vandy). History tells us we have some moderate success against the east in the last 4 years in the SECT with our record being 5-2 (I believe that's right... we lost to UGA in '08 and UK in '10... wins being against UK in '07, S.C., UGA, and UT in '09, and UF and Vandy in '10). I don't really know what that says, but that is not a bad record at all. Every year is different, though... it really depends on which one of our teams decides to show up next weekend.