Basketball Tie-Breaking Procedures

TOURNAMENT SEEDING 
The seeds for the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championship shall be determined based on each team’s overall regular-season conference finish. The regular-season champion shall earn the top seed. The remaining seeds are then determined based on their conference winning percentage. Once all seeds are determined, the seeds will be placed accordingly into the bracket.

Two Teams Tie Breaking Formula
A. Highest win-loss percentage of head-to-head competition during the regular season.
B. Each teams’ win-loss percentage vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular-season standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage.
C. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group’s own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
D. If the records are the same against all teams, then the seeded position would be determined by a toss of the coin by the Sun Belt Conference Commissioner.
 
Three or More Teams Tie Breaking Formula
A. Highest win-loss percentage of the tied teams against each other is first considered.
B. Each teams’ win-loss percentage vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular-season standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage.
C. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group’s own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
D. If there is still a tie, the seeded position of the teams will be determined by a draw conducted by the Sun Belt Conference Commissioner.
E. For all ties involving three or more teams, once the tie is broken and the highest-seeded team is determined, the remaining tied teams will revert back to the beginning of the applicable tiebreaker.