Big East Midwest Division

[TennZip]

Standings after October 24 games

 

Creighton  3-0-3    12 points 

 

Akron and Xavier   2-1-3

both have 9 points 

 

Marquette  2-4-0   6 points

 

Butler  and DePaul.     1-2-2

both have 5 points 

 

remaining schedule for Creighton, Akron and Xavier

 

Friday October 30

Creighton at 6-0 Georgetown    
   If Creighton wins or gets a tie, they will almost assuredly win the Midwest 

 

Saturday October 31

1 pm  Akron at Villanova 0-5-1

6:30 pm  U Conn 3-2-0 at Xavier

   UConn has a league game on O 27

 

Friday November 6

all games start at same time

Akron at 2-4-0 Marquette 

DePaul 1-2-2 at Creighton 

Xavier at 1-2-2 Butler 

   
 

and to answer an obvious question, I do not know the tiebreakers if Akron, Xavier and Creighton finish tied at 15 points

 

I also do not know tiebreaker if Creighton and Akron finish in 2 way tie at 15

 

obviously, Akron needs to win 2 road games

Akron fans want to root for a Georgetown win against Creighton 

 

[TennZip]

I think that the zips would win the Midwest if Xavier, Akron and Creighton all finish with 15 points 

 

tiebreaker

 

Mini-conference head-to-head records among the tied teams (best record gains advantage, worst seeded lowest). If split, reverts to 2-team rules.

 

   From my perspective, the zips would be 1-0-1 vs C and X

Creighton would be 0-0-2

Xavier would be 0-1-1

[Let'sGoZips94]

Top 2 from each division make the Big East tourney, correct?

[TennZip]

3 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Top 2 from each division make the Big East tourney, correct?

Not correct

East winner and Midwest winner make the tourney

then the top 2 in points...regardless of division

[Zips1991]

8 hours ago, TennZip said:

I think that the zips would win the Midwest if Xavier, Akron and Creighton all finish with 15 points 

 

tiebreaker

 

Mini-conference head-to-head records among the tied teams (best record gains advantage, worst seeded lowest). If split, reverts to 2-team rules.

 

   From my perspective, the zips would be 1-0-1 vs C and X

Creighton would be 0-0-2

Xavier would be 0-1-1

Based on two-way tiebreaker that I saw on Google AI (could be incorrect), the first tiebreaker for a two-way tie would be

 

1. head-to-head (we beat Xavier and drew with Creighton).

 

2. Record against highest teams in standings. **if** Creighton loses to Georgetown, both would have lost to the top team (Xavier did not play them) so then it goes down the standings until there's a common opponent where one team has a better record. (I haven't looked at all scenarios because the rest of the seeds are TBD)

[Let'sGoZips94]

12 hours ago, TennZip said:

Not correct

East winner and Midwest winner make the tourney

then the top 2 in points...regardless of division

 

Thank you sir. So as long as we take care of business, we're in?

[TennZip]

10 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

 

Thank you sir. So as long as we take care of business, we're in?

As @Zips1991 said in another topic, the zips are at more risk of not making the Big East tournament than they are of not making the NCAA tournament.

 

if the zips win their last 2 road games, the zips will make the NCAA tournament and be seeded in the top 16.

 

as far as the Big east tournament, the zips can only get to 15 points

 

Georgetown is the only team certain to get in right now as they have 18 points and still have 2 games left to play.

 

Creighton will win the Midwest division with 18 points if they beat Georgetown and DePaul in their last 2 games.

 

Is it likely that Creighton beats Georgetown?  Probably not.  But they can still win the Midwest with a tie against Georgetown and a win over DePaul.

 

UConn could finish with 18 points with wins in their last 3 games.   Their last 2 games are against Xavier and Georgetown so they have a challenging path to finish with 18 points.

 

As I mentioned in another topic yesterday, Seton Hall has the easiest schedule and they could finish with 17 points.

 

    Bottom line, I think that the Zips are in good shape to make Big East tournament if they win their last 2.

 

however, if Georgetown loses their last 2(super unlikely), things could get complicated.

[Zips1991]

31 minutes ago, TennZip said:

As @Zips1991 said in another topic, the zips are at more risk of not making the Big East tournament than they are of not making the NCAA tournament.

 

if the zips win their last 2 road games, the zips will make the NCAA tournament and be seeded in the top 16.

 

as far as the Big east tournament, the zips can only get to 15 points

 

Georgetown is the only team certain to get in right now as they have 18 points and still have 2 games left to play.

 

Creighton will win the Midwest division with 18 points if they beat Georgetown and DePaul in their last 2 games.

 

Is it likely that Creighton beats Georgetown?  Probably not.  But they can still win the Midwest with a tie against Georgetown and a win over DePaul.

 

UConn could finish with 18 points with wins in their last 3 games.   Their last 2 games are against Xavier and Georgetown so they have a challenging path to finish with 18 points.

 

As I mentioned in another topic yesterday, Seton Hall has the easiest schedule and they could finish with 17 points.

 

    Bottom line, I think that the Zips are in good shape to make Big East tournament if they win their last 2.

 

however, if Georgetown loses their last 2(super unlikely), things could get complicated.

Great analysis. I don't have the RPI math but I assume Akron would make the NCAA Tournament even with 2 losses to close the season. However, anything short of two wins would likely leave them out of the Big East tournament. 

 

However, my prediction is the Zips win the Midwest division. The Creighton-Georgetown match is in DC and as @TennZip laid out, the three-way tiebreaker favors Akron right now. 

[TennZip]

On 10/25/2026 at 9:46 PM, TennZip said:

 

 

as far as the Big east tournament, the zips can only get to 15 points

 

 

UConn could finish with 18 points with wins in their last 3 games.   Their last 2 games are against Xavier and Georgetown so they have a challenging path to finish with 18 points.

 

As I mentioned in another topic yesterday, Seton Hall has the easiest schedule and they could finish with 17 points.

 

 

Tuesday night results.......are helping the Zips chances of making the Big East tournament....

 

St. John's was 1-2-2 before tonight....they played 3-2-0  UConn

 

St. John's wins 3-2........so St. John's is now 2--2-2 (8 points)...

UConn is now 3-3-0 (has 9 points after 6 games)

UConn's last 2 games are against Xavier and Georgetown....so they are not likely to reach the Big East tournament.

 

 

Seton Hall was 2-1-2 before tonight...with games remaining against DePaul, Providence and Villanova

at 73 minutes, 1-2-2 DePaul....is beating Seton Hall 3-1......so it is likely that Seton Hall is not going to take advantage of their weak schedule.

[Zips1991]

Here's the seeding as of this morning. The two teams in bold text have played one fewer conference match due to postponements earlier this season. I did not look into tiebreakers for the order of any teams on the same number of points (other than Akron over Xavier since I knew that one 😉)

[Let'sGoZips94]

Avoiding GTown until potentially the finals would be ideal. 

[Zips1991]

Also, an important note for context on the standings I posted above...Xavier and UConn play each other on Saturday, so that should help Akron assuming the Zips take care of business against Villanova.

And Creighton plays Georgetown (on Friday). So, Akron could be tied for the division lead by the end of Saturday.

Edited Wednesday at 02:32 PM by Zips1991

[TennZip]

Georgetown is an amazing offensive juggernaut 

 

Creighton scored in the first 4 minutes 

 

Georgetown has responded with 4 goals in the next 16 minutes 

 

Matthew Van Horne and Mitchell Baker each have 11 goals for the year

 

GT leads 4-1 after 19:58

[TennZip]

Zips now control their own destiny in the midwest division.

 

With a win at Villanova tomorrow afternoon, they can reach 12 points after 7 games.

 

Creighton now has 12 points after 7 games....

 

Georgetown defeated Creighton tonight 5-3.

 

Congratulations to Big East regular season champion Georgetown.

 

Georgetown is now 7-0-0 after 7 games of the Big East regular season.

[Zips1991]

When searching Google for Big East men's soccer tiebreakers, I came across this cool page on the Big East website. You can enter different results and it will show you the seeding and tell you who wins tiebreakers.

 

https://www.bigeast.com/sports/2026/10/8/MSOC_1008263346.aspx

 

According to this, Creighton would win a head-to-head tiebreaker over Akron due to better record against common conference opponents. However, Akron would win the tiebreaker in a three-way tie with Creighton and Xavier. 

 

Tiebreakers are explained at the bottom of the page for those who want to read through them. 

Edited 57 minutes ago by Zips1991