CAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TIEBREAKERS 

SEEDING 
Seeding of the Conference Tournament is based on a team’s Regular Season record in Conference games. In the case of seeding ties, they will be broken from top to bottom using the below noted parameters. Once a seeding tie is broken and the seeds are determined, the seeds will be used to break any subsequent seeding ties. 

All teams, regardless of whether they are eligible for the tournament or not, will be seeded and used in any tiebreaker scenarios. Once tie-breakers have been completed and ‘places’ for all teams have been determined, actual ‘seeds’ for the CAA Championship will be determined by listing all eligible teams in order, ‘skipping’ any team(s) not eligible for the CAA Championship. 

A. Two Tied Teams: 

1. Head-to-head competition (based on winning percentage (e.g., 1-0 is a better record than 0-1). 

2. If two tied teams split their two games, compare each tied team’s record against the common opponent occupying the highest position in the standings and continue down through the standings until one team gains the advantage, thereby earning the higher seed. When arriving at another set of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to their own tie-breaking procedures), rather than the performance against the individual tied teams. When comparing records against a single team or collective tied teams (before ties are broken), winning percentage prevails, even if the games played aren’t equal. (i.e., 2-0 is better than 3-1, 4-2 is equal to 2-1, 0-2 is equal to 0-4). Both teams must have played at least one game against an opponent for the opponent to be used in the tiebreaking procedure. 

3. If a tie still exists, the NCAA Evaluation Tool as computed from the NCAA NET Report on the day following the last scheduled conference game, will be used to break the tie. The team with the better NET ranking will earn the higher seed. 

B. Multiple (3 or more) Tied Teams 

1. Teams are viewed as a “mini-conference” when comparing head-to-head results. The team, or teams, with the best winning percentage vs. the other teams in the mini conference (even if the number of games is unequal) gains the advantage and the team, or teams, with the worst winning percentage vs. the other teams in the mini-conference is seeded the lowest. (e.g., 2-0 is a better record than 3-1, 4-2 is equal to 2-1, 0-2 is equal to 0-4). For example, if three teams are 4-2, 4-2 and 2-4 in the mini-conference, the 2-4 team would be the lowest seed and the two 4-2 teams would proceed to Step 2.)

2. If two teams have the same winning percentage in the mini-conference, the higher seed goes to the team winning the head-to-head series.

3. If the two teams split their two games, then proceed to Step 2 under the Two Team tiebreaker. To seed the remaining team(s) in this mini-conference, proceed to (6.) below.

4. If three or more (but not all) teams have the same winning percentage in the original mini-conference, then those tied teams create a new mini-conference and follow this same procedure beginning at Step 1. (Multiple Team Tie).

5. If all teams in the mini-conference have the same mini-conference record, proceed to Step 7. below.

6. After the top or bottom teams in a mini-conference are determined, the remaining teams are ranked by their record in the original mini-conference. If there are any remaining teams tied by their record in the mini-conference, then head-to-head results will determine the higher seed. If the teams split two games, then proceed back to the two-way tie breaking procedure. If there are at least three teams remaining tied by their record in the mini conference, they would then form a new mini-conference and follow the procedure again at the beginning of Step 1. (Multiple-Team Tie).

7. Compare each team’s winning percentage vs. the common opponent or group of common opponents occupying the highest position in the standings. If an advantage is not determined, proceed to the next common opponent or group of tied common opponents in the standings for comparison. Continue down through the standings until one or more teams gains an advantage. If two teams have the exact same advantage (i.e., having the same and better winning percentage against a compared team relative to their mini-conference), they are separated at that point by the two-way tiebreaker procedure. The next step would take you back to Step 1.

8. If a tie still exists, the NCAA Evaluation Tool as computed from the NCAA NET Report on the day following the last scheduled conference game, will be used to break the tie. The team with the better NET ranking will earn the higher seed.