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Because Troy won a tie breaker, because they beat ODU. That puts us in the best bracket. We now have to play the winner of the Texas St. Ga. St. game. We have beaten both teams and are 3-0 with those teams. After that (hopefully) win, we play Marshall, which we have beaten. Then in the Smi- finals, we would probably play La-Lafayette, which we have beaten. The finals would most likely be Southern Miss or JMU. We have beaten Southern Miss and if its JMU, we will be ready and due. I know this is a wish, but on paper it looks good.

I posted this on the conference board, but it seems apt here as well:


Interesting win-loss spread isolated within each of the top and bottom brackets:

Top Bracket:
USM (1) - - 7-1
JMU (4) - - 4-3
Troy (5) - - 4-5
USA (8) - - 6-3
App. (9) - - 4-4
CCU (12) - - 2-5
ASU (13) - - 1-7

Bottom Bracket:
UL (1) - - 7-1
MU (3) - - 5-4
ODU (6) - - 7-1
Ga. So. (7) - - 2-7
ULM (10) - - 5-2
Tx. St. (11) - - 1-6
Ga. St. (14) - - 1-7

Check me on this. I hand counted this morning while my wife chattered away at me about some breakfast recipe that she was preparing for our visiting daughter and son-in-law (a Marshall grad who was in for they game last night, b.t.w. - - hah!). I may have miscounted somewhere.

But it does confirm some seeming discrepancies between conf.-record seed and in-bracket performance - - USA and ODU in particular. ULM also was a surprise.

Edit: App's numbers corrected.