Women's, men's basketball vie for top tournament seeds
The men's and women's basketball teams are both 2-0 in the last week, including a pair of road wins on Saturday.
With two games to go, here's where each team stands.
Men's Basketball
After defeating the Toledo Rockets 76-74 on Saturday, the Central Michigan men's basketball team is in second place in the Mid-American Conference West Division.
CMU (16-13, 9-7 MAC) travels to MAC West leader Ball State on Tuesday and hosts Western Michigan on Friday.
"This is the time to be playing as well as you can, and I think we have done that in the past week or two," said Head Coach Keno Davis.
CMU is in a three-way tie for fourth place in the MAC along with Kent State and Buffalo.
"If we win, it kind of takes care of itself," Davis said.
Women's Basketball
After Saturday's 73-61 win against Western Michigan, the Central Michigan women's basketball team clinched a share of the MAC West Division title.
The Chippewas (19-8, 13-3 MAC) clinched a first-round bye in the MAC Tournament.
CMU will finish the season out at Toledo on Wednesday and home against Eastern Michigan on Saturday.
If the Chippewas beat Toledo, they will clinch the second seed and the MAC West title outright. It would also be the fifth 20-win season in six years for Head Coach Sue Guevara.
Tournament Format
The top four seeds for the men and women earn an automatic first-round bye.
Seeds five through eight host seeds nine through 12 in the first round on campus sites on March 7.
This is the first season of the new format.
In 2014-15, the top two teams earned a double-bye, seeds three and four earned a first-round bye and seeds five through 12 needed to win five games to win the tournament.
Tiebreakers
Only conference records are taken into account when seeding the 12 MAC teams for the conference tournament.
For any ties, the following procedures are enforced to ranked the involved teams.
1. Head-to-head record
2. The division record (MAC West or MAC East)
3. Winning percentage against ranked teams from top to bottom, regardless of division
4. Coin flip
