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Eagles scrambling for No. 1 seed
The Kirkwood women's basketball team defeated Iowa Central by 12 points Wednesday night at Johnson Hall, 48-36, and actually lost ground in the conference race.
That's because NIACC, which is tied with Kirkwood for first place in the ICCAC conference with identical 11-1 records, clobbered Little Priest Tribal College by 35 points.
There's a good chance that Kirkwood and NIACC will tie for the conference title this season with 15-1 records, so they'll need to use a tiebreaker to determine the No. 1 seed for the regional tournament and the coveted home-court advantage.
The first tiebreaker is head-to-head competition, but the Eagles and Trojans split their two games.
The second tiebreaker is point differential in those two games, but they traded six-point victories.
The third tiebreaker is each team's record against the rest of the conference, which would be 14-0.
The fourth tiebreaker, according to Kirkwood athletic director Doug Wagemester, is overall point differential against all the other teams in the league. Read more...