Colorado University Athletics
Final Weekend Seeding Scenarios For Buffs
March 04, 2016 | Men's Basketball, Neill Woelk
BOULDER — With one game remaining in Pac-12 play, the Colorado Buffaloes could still end up anywhere from third to sixth in the final conference standings.
The Buffs play their regular season finale Saturday night at Utah (7:30 p.m., ESPNU). A third- or fourth-place finish would give Colorado a first-round bye in the Pac-12 Tournament, and the Buffs would open play Thursday. Fifth or sixth means the Buffs will play on Wednesday.
Here are the scenarios that still exist for the Buffs as the Pac-12 heads into its final weekend of conference play:
IF COLORADO BEATS UTAH:
— Buffs will be the third seed if Arizona State beats Cal and Stanford beats Arizona. Colorado, Cal and Arizona would all be 11-7 and Colorado wins that tiebreaker by being 2-1 against those teams, Cal is 2-2 and Arizona 1-2. First tiebreaker in a more-than-two team tiebreaker is combined winning percentage against the other teams in the tie.
— Buffs will be fourth seed if Cal beats ASU and Stanford beats Arizona. Cal (12-6) would be third seed. That would leave Colorado and Arizona tied at 11-7 and Buffs would win tiebreaker on head-to-head win over Arizona.
— Buffs will be fourth seed if ASU beats Cal and Arizona beats Stanford. Arizona (12-6) would be third seed. Colorado and Cal would both be 11-7 and Colorado wins tiebreaker by virtue of better winning percentage against Arizona (CU and Cal split season series; both teams also split with Oregon and Utah).
— Colorado will be fifth seed if Cal beats ASU and Arizona beats Stanford. That leaves CU alone in fifth place.
IF BUFFS LOSE TO UTAH:
— Buffs will be fifth seed if Oregon beats USC, which would leave CU alone in fifth with 10-8 record.
— Buffs will be sixth seed if USC beats Oregon. Buffs lose head-to-head tiebreaker with USC.
