Race for the Top Four Big East Seeds

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At the moment Akron would not be one of the four teams to make the Big East tournament, but they do control their ability to do so. 

 

At the moment they sit tied for sixth place with St John's and Butler. St John's holds the tie breaker over the Zips but the Zips hold it over Butler.

 

Standings are as follows (although the East and Midwest division leaders will each get a slot regardless of point totals).

 

Georgetown 13

Creighton 10

UConn, Seton Hall, Providence 9

St John's, Zips, Butler 7

Villanova 6

Xavier 5

DePaul 1

Marquette 0

 

The "easy" way for the Zips to get in is win their last three. Then it won't matter what Creighton does in their other two games because the best they could do would be to tie the Zips and the Zips would hold the tiebreaker. 

 

But barring passing Creighton, they need to sneak ahead of three of the four of Uconn, Seton Hall, Providence and St. John's. The good news is all of them play each other at least once and some twice, so we probably want to root for a lot of ties. 😂 

 

And the Zips really need to take advantage of playing two of the three bottom teams before they get to Creighton. If they can pull off two wins and at least a tie against Creighton, I think they're in. Going to be an interesting last few weeks.