Men's Basketball

Sun Belt Basketball Tournament Tiebreakers

TOURNAMENT SEEDING 
The seeds for the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championship shall be determined based on each team’s overall regular-season conference finish. The regular-season champion shall earn the top seed. The remaining seeds are then determined based on their conference winning percentage. Once all seeds are determined, the seeds will be placed accordingly into the bracket.

TWO-TEAM TIEBREAKERS     
A.             Highest win-loss percentage of head-to-head competition during the regular season.
B.             Each teams’ win-loss percentage vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular-season standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one teams gains an advantage.
C.             When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group’s own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
D.             If the records are the same against all teams, then the seeded position would be determined by a toss of the coin by the Sun Belt Conference Commissioner.

THREE-TEAM TIEBREAKERS     
A.             Highest win-loss percentage of the tied teams against each other is first considered.
B.             Each teams’ win-loss percentage vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular-season standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one teams gains an advantage.
C.             When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group’s own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
D.             If there is still a tie, the seeded position of the teams will be determined by a draw conducted by the Sun Belt Conference Commissioner.
E.             For all ties of three or more teams, the progression of the tiebreaker shall be followed until the highest seed amongst the tied is determined. If one team falls out of contention for the higher seed, the remaining teams will continue down the tiebreaker until a higher seed is determined. Once the highest seed is determined, said team is removed from the pool of tied team and the tie of the remaining tied teams is broken by starting over from the beginning of the applicable tie-breaker.