Soccer game at South Carolina makeup schedule for Wed. Oct. 30.

[patdog]

Another tough game on the schedule, but good they're making it up. Timing is great since we'll draw a bye in the tournament and won't play until the following Tuesday.

 

[Dawgg]

Good. I was worried we’d end up getting screwed if we ended up with a tie or loss vs Kentucky or A&M.

 

[patdog]

Good. I was worried we’d end up getting screwed if we ended up with a tie or loss vs Kentucky or A&M.

Yeah. It's a tough road game, but in terms of SEC, it can only help us. We'll either go to Columbia having clinched the title or needing a point or three there to win the title.

 

[Dawgg]

Yeah. It's a tough road game, but in terms of SEC, it can only help us. We'll either go to Columbia having clinched the title or needing a point or three there to win the title.

Agreed. Assuming Arkansas wins out, out of the possible situations that could occur with us vs A&M and Kentucky, the only situation where the extra game potentially hurts us is if we win one and tie one*. In every other situation, the extra game would only help us. Plus, South Carolina is 19 ranked RPI, so a road game there should only help us with the committee.

*Just to show my math, if Arkansas wins out, they'll end up with 27 points. Divided by 10, that's 2.7 pts/game.
If we beat Kentucky and tie A&M (or vice versa), we'll end up with 25 points. Divided by 9, that's 2.7777 pts/game, so we win the conference regular season outright. Since we're playing 10 games, we would need to win the last game.

We beat A&M and Kentucky = we clinched the SEC regular season and an SC win helps with national seeding

We win one and lose one = We need to beat SC to win the SEC regular season.

We tie both = We finish second in the SEC and probably need to beat SC to keep our national seeding.

We lose both = We finish second or third (if Auburn wins out) in the SEC and need to beat SC and probably have a strong SEC Tourney run to keep our national seeding.

 

[tired]

These ladies are special