GLVC to Continue PRS for Seeding of Revamped Basketball Tournament Format
INDIANAPOLIS – With league play set to resume Thursday evening, the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) will continue to utilize the GLVC Point Rating System (PRS) to determine the top eight men’s and women’s teams that will advance to the 2020 GLVC Basketball Championship Tournaments, which will be conducted with a new format this season.
The men’s and women’s teams will now play on each of the four days, as opposed to the previous editions that saw one gender play all four quarterfinals on Thursday and the other gender playing its first four games on Friday.
The 2020 event features the women’s No. 2 and No. 7 seeds squaring off on Thursday at 12 p.m. CT, followed by the women’s No. 1 and No. 8 seeds at 2:30 p.m. The men’s 1/8 game will then take to the court at 6 p.m., with the nightcap featuring the men’s 2/7 contest.
Quarterfinal action continues on Friday with the women’s 3/6 game at noon, followed by their 4/5 game. The men’s 3/6 contest will tip at 6 p.m., with their 4/5 quarterfinal concludes Friday’s action with an 8:30 p.m. start.
Saturday and Sunday play will resemble previous tournament formats as the women will play their remaining games on the front half, followed by the men in the second half of the day. The men’s and women’s schedule will then flip for the 2021 event and continue to rotate each year.
The GLVC Point Rating System, which was designed three years ago to produce the tournament’s top eight teams, provides a team more points for a win on the road or at home against top competition based on conference winning percentage, while distributing fewer points for a win against weaker competition. Points are also distributed for losses, with more points awarded for a loss against stronger competition versus if the team lost at home or on the road to a struggling team.
In the event of a tie, the league’s existing interdivision tiebreak criteria will be applied as outlined in Section 3.C.2.a of the GLVC Handbook.
The GLVC website will continue to display all 16 teams on the standings page and offer a link to updated PRS ratings following each Conference game, beginning this evening. The PRS document will show the top-eight teams highlighted to indicate the tournament field should the season end at that time. In line with the GLVC’s transparent approach, it is important to remember that PRS ratings can fluctuate throughout the first half of the league slate, which is unlikely to happen as frequently when the number of Conference games played increase.
The 2020 GLVC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championship Tournament returns to the Vadalabene Center on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, March 5-8, 2020.
Included below is the GLVC Point Rating System, followed by the amended tiebreak criteria from GLVC Handbook Section 3.C.2.a:
GLVC POINT RATING SYSTEM
Points shall be awarded for each conference contest played:
7 points – win over a .750 or better team on the road
6.5 points – win over a .750 or better team at home
6 points – win over a .500 or better team on the road
5 points – win over a .500 or better team at home
4.5 points – win over a .250 or better team on the road
4 points – win over a .250 team or better at home
3.5 points – win over an under .250 team on the road
3 points – win over an under .250 team at home
2.5 points – loss at home or on the road to a .750 or better team
2 points – loss to a .500 or better team at home or on the road
1 point – loss to a .250 or better team at home or on the road
.5 points – loss to an under .250 team on the road
0 points – loss to an under .250 team at home
GLVC POINT RATING SYSTEM TIEBREAK – SECTION 3.C.2.a
- Head to-head competition (If only one game is played and the road team wins or if two games are played and one team sweeps the other)
- Head-to-head competition with the remaining institutions in order of their Point Rating System (PRS) standing (each team’s record vs. the team occupying the highest position in the PRS and then continuing down through the PRS until one team gains an advantage) considering only contests where:
- Â Â one of the tied teams swept an opponent. (e.g. 1 swept 3 while 2 split with 3) or
- Â one of the tied teams lost to an opponent at home and the other defeated the same opponent on the road (e.g. 1 and 2 are tied. 1 defeated 3 at 3 while 2 lost to 3 at home. The advantage would go to 1.) or
- Â considering only contests where the tied teams played the same opponent at home or played the same opponent on the road. (e.g. 1 and 2 are tied. The results of 1 and 2 both playing at 3 can be compared or the results of 3 playing at both 1 and 2 can be compared).
When arriving at another pair of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to their own tiebreaking procedures), rather than the performance against individual tied teams. If three or more teams are tied in the standing, the same procedures would be used.
- Overall road record versus opponents
- Head to Head competition if the win is at home.
- A coin flip by the Commissioner