There's no surprise after Thursday's games that the Western Athletic Conference standings look a little more settled. We will know even more after today, but given yesterday's results, here's what we know:
GCU beat California Baptist and Tarleton upset Sam Houston, in a shutout no less. The Bearkats lead is now down to half a game with two to play.
Utah Valley's win over the UT Arlington squad puts them percentage points ahead for third place.
Seattle beat Abilene Christian, giving them the fourth spot currently.
Abilene Christian, CBU and UTA are tied for fifth. ACU has the tiebreaker over UTA, CBU has the tiebreaker over ACU, UTA has the tiebreaker over CBU. It is truly a rock paper scissors situation.
I'm not sure that the tiebreaker is for the WAC, but generally it looks to record against the top seed. UTA was swept last week, ACU lost 1-2 and CBU did not play Sam this year. Against GCU, UTA did not play, ACU won one out of three and CBU is currently 0-1. After that, they'll trickle down the standings if needed. Some conferences use other metrics like statistical rankings. I don't really know at this point.
UTRGV beat SFA pretty convincingly. One more Vaquero win and they are in the tournament.
Game 2 Central start times are:
Sam Houston @ Tarleton 3pm,
Cal Baptist @ GCU 7pm,
ACU @ Seattle 4pm,
UVU @ UTA 1pm,
UTRGV @ SFA 6:30 pm.
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