BB: Conference playoff seeding announced
Canada West basketball playoffs open Feb. 7 with play-in action
EDMONTON – The Canada West basketball playoff picture is set, as the conference regular season concluded Saturday night.
The defending Canada West and U SPORTS champion Calgary Dinos enter the playoffs as the top men's seed thanks to their perfect 20-0 regular season, while the Saskatchewan Huskies are the top women's seed after a 16-4 campaign.
Highlights:
- Calgary (men's) and Saskatchewan (women's) are the top seeds entering the 2019 Canada West basketball playoffs
- Conference regular season play concluded Saturday night
- Playoff action opens Thursday, February 7th, as the conference's play-in round begins
Once again this season, ratings performance index (RPI) was used for playoff seeding.
RPI has been used since the 2016-17 campaign to seed playoff teams, while win/loss record is used to determine playoff qualification (top 12 teams qualify). RPI is used to factor in varying strengths of schedules, resulting from the conference's unbalanced schedule.
- RPI = 35% team winning percentage (WP) x 1.1 away win + 0.9 home win, 40% opponents' average winning percentage (OWP), and 25% opponents' opponent’s average winning percentage (OOWP).
The top four men's and women's teams, based on RPI, receive a first round bye in the playoffs, while the other eight playoff teams on each side participate in a single elimination play-in game.
Best-of-three quarter-finals and semifinals are then played, with the conference playoffs culminating in one-game Canada West Championships (to be played either March 1st, or 2nd).
- Complete CW men's basketball standings, RPI, and playoff format - click here.
- Complete CW women's basketball standings, final RPI, and playoff format - click here.
Be sure to watch all the action this playoff season by purchasing a Canada West post-season pass. Passes are on sale now, and can be purchased here.
FINAL MEN'S BASKETBALL RPI
- Calgary - 0.702
- Alberta - 0.613
- UBC - 0.601
- Saskatchewan - 0.568
- Regina - 0.546
- UFV - 0.529
- Lethbridge - 0.528
- Winnipeg - 0.516
- Manitoba - 0.514
- Victoria - 0.503
- UNBC - 0.492
- Thompson Rivers - 0.477
- Mount Royal 0.445
- UBC Okanagan - 0.405
- Brandon - 0.393
- MacEwan - 0.349
- Trinity Western - 0.320
NOTE: Italics denotes first round bye. Underline denotes play-in round participants.
MEN'S BASKETBALL PLAY-IN ROUND GAMES
- Thursday, February 7
- Manitoba (9) @ Winnipeg (8) / 7 p.m. CST
- UNBC (11) @ Fraser Valley (6) / 7 p.m. PST
- Friday, February 8
- Mount Royal (12) @ Regina (5) / 7 p.m. CST
- Victoria (10) @ Lethbridge (7) / 8 p.m. MST
FINAL WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RPI
- Saskatchewan - 0.646
- Calgary - 0.642
- Regina - 0.614
- Alberta - 0.608
- UBC - 0.548
- Lethbridge - 0.542
- Victoria - 0.541
- Trinity Western - 0.527
- UNBC - 0.525
- UFV - 0.498
- Manitoba - 0.473
- Winnipeg - 0.470
- MacEwan - 0.418
- Thompson Rivers - 0.410
- Brandon - 0.393
- Mount Royal - 0.343
- UBC Okanagan - 0.304
NOTE: Italics denotes first round bye. Underline denotes play-in round participants.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PLAY-IN ROUND GAMES
- Friday, February 8
- Manitoba (11) @ Lethbridge (6) / 6 p.m. MST
- Fraser Valley (10) @ Victoria (7) / 7 p.m. PST
- UNBC (9) @ Trinity Western (8) / 7 p.m. PST
- Saturday, February 9
- Winnipeg (12) @ UBC (5) / 2 p.m. PST