CIAA Adopts New Eleven Team Bracket for Basketball Tournament
CIAA Adopts New Eleven Team Bracket for Basketball
Tournament
Five Teams Now Earn BYE's
Time Changes Made in Opening Rounds to Accommodate
Tournament Bracket (PDF)
Hampton, VA... The Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association has adopted an eleven (11) team bracket for the 2007
CIAA Basketball Tournament to be held in Charlotte, NC beginning
Monday, February 26-March 3 at the Charlotte Bobcats Arena.
With the new eleven team bracket now in place, game times for the
opening rounds (Monday and Wednesday) of the women's and men's
tournament have changed to 3:00pm, 7:00pm and 9:00pm. Regular
game times resume for the quarters and semis of both tournaments;
1:00pm, 3:00pm, 7:00pm and 9:00pm.
The women's final is scheduled for 5:00pm, with the men's final
following at 8:00pm.
Explanation of eleven team bracket- For the 2007 regular season and
tournament, the Eastern and Western Divisions will remain
intact. During the regular season, teams have been scheduled
according to Home & Home scheduling, regardless of divisional
affiliation.
** Tournament seeding will be based on conference records and
seeded accordingly, 1-11, with three (3)
games in the first round. The top five (5) teams will earn
byes into the second round.
If teams share the same conference record, the tie-breaker
procedure will be used.
1. Divisional Record
2. Head-to-Head Competition
3. Coin Toss
For example, if this week's men's standings (1/22/07) determined the tournament bracket, teams would be seeded as follows:
| Seed | School | CIAA Record | Division Record | ||
| #1 | BYE | Virginia Union | 7-1 .875 | 3-0 1.000 | |
| #2 | BYE | Virginia State | 7-1 .875 | 3-1 .750 | |
| #3 | BYE | St. Augustine’s | 8-2 .800 | 2-0 1.000 | |
| #4 | BYE | Johnson C. Smith | 5-3 .625 | 0-1 .000 | |
| #5 | BYE | Fayetteville State | 5-4 .556 | 2-0 1.000 | |
| #6 | 1st Rd | Bowie State | 5-5 .500 | 2-2 .500 | |
| #7 | 1st Rd | Elizabeth City State | 4-5 .444 | 1-1 .500 | |
| #8 | 1st Rd | NC Central | 3-5 .375 | 1-2 .333 | |
| #9 | 1st Rd | St. Paul’s | 1-6 .143 | 0-2 .000 | |
| #10 | 1st Rd | Livingstone | 1-7 .125 | 0-2 .000 | |
| #11 | 1st Rd | Shaw | 0-9 .000 | 0-3 .000 | |
As the weeks count down to the tournament, we hope that you will join us in keeping track of who will earn this year's prized 4th and 5th place seeds!
