![]() ![]() 4 is essentially a combination of tiebreaker No. If that’s how it plays out, UT likely would need to win that KU game anyway just to force the tie in the first place. If the Longhorns drop at least one of their next road games, they would need to defeat Kansas at home in order to remain alive through this tiebreaker. But, if it gets to this step, it could be advantage Kansas, especially because Texas still has two more road games to play - at Baylor on Saturday and at TCU next week - and KU just has the one, at Texas in the regular season finale. 3, is a comparison of the teams’ conference road records.Īs things stand today, both KU and UT have three Big 12 road losses. If that winds up tied all the way through 10th place, then you go to the next tiebreaker. If that’s a tie - like, if they both went 2-0 or 0-2 or split with the team in third - then you go down to the team in fourth place and then fifth place and then sixth place and so on until one team lands an advantage. If the teams that are tied at the top split the regular season series, we got to the second tiebreaker, which is each team’s regular season record against the team in third place in the Big 12 standings. But, if the Jayhawks slip up against either West Virginia or Texas Tech, they could need to beat Texas to secure a tie. Of course, if that happens, it significantly increases KU’s chances of winning the league outright. So, as of now, in order to avoid losing out on the tiebreaker, KU would need to beat Texas in Austin on March 4. The first tiebreaker is head-to-head matchups. ![]() Let’s get to the tiebreaker scenarios for two teams, which is most likely what we will see this season if there winds up being a tie at the top. The unbalanced format came into play during the recent seasons impacted by COVID-19 and it accounts for teams playing a different number of games and uses adjusted winning percentage to determine seeding.Įnough about all of that, though. And there are also plans for ties involving multiple teams, as well as a series of plans for what’s known as an unbalanced tiebreaker, both between two teams and multiple teams. There are plans for a tie at the top between two teams, which we’ll look at more closely in a minute. That’s where the tiebreaker rules come into play.īelieve it or not, the Big 12 has fairly extensive plans in place in the event of a tie between any number of teams at the end of the regular season. They’re all the champs.īut not all of them can be the top seed in the Big 12’s postseason tournament. Over the last 11 academic years (2011-12 through 2020-22), Baylor has won a combined 50 Big 12 regular-season and tournament championships.Ī complete list of conference championships by sport follows.Most of you surely know by now that if two or more teams are tied at the top with the same record at the end of the regular season, each of them is declared the Big 12 regular season champion. The 92 Big 12 Conference titles is 63 more than the 29 titles Baylor earned in 81 years of Southwest Conference membership. ![]() In addition to the 12 team national titles, Baylor has amassed 121 conference titles, including 92 Big 12 Conference titles (54 regular season and 38 tournament).īaylor's 121 all-time conference titles have come in 17 different sports - men's tennis (25), women's basketball (24), women's tennis (19), baseball (9), football (9), men's basketball (7), men's golf (5), equestrian (4), women's cross country (4), soccer (4), men's outdoor track & field (3), men's cross country (2), men's indoor track & field (2), softball (1), women's golf (1), women's indoor track & field (1), and volleyball (1). ![]()
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