LCSC men and
women are both top seeds
at FC tourney
3-1-08
Based on Carroll College
defeating Westminster
75-72 in a Frontier
Conference men's
basketball game on
Saturday night, the LCSC
men will join the
Warrior women as the top
seeds in the conference
tournaments, which open
Wednesday in Butte,
Mont.
The LCSC women won the
regular season title for
the third straight year
and will play No. 8 seed
Great Falls at 5 p.m.,
Pacific time on
Wednesday in the opening
round. Wednesday's
first-round pairings
have the No. 1 vs. No. 8
and No. 2 vs. No. 7
seeds in both the men's
and women's tournaments.
On the men's side,
Carroll's win, along
with Montana
State-Northern defeating
Montana Tech 71-66 on
Saturday night, left a
four-way tie for the
conference's top. LCSC,
Westminster, Carroll and
Montana State-Northern
all have 10-4 conference
records.
The first tiebreaker in
the conference is
head-to-head
competition. All four
teams split their
regular season meetings
against each other,
except LCSC swept
Westminster. That left
LCSC with a 4-2 record
against the other three
teams it tied with, and
the No. 1 seed in the
tournament. Carroll and
MSU-Northern went 3-3
against the other teams,
while Westminster was
2-4. Carroll and MSU-Northern
lost to the same teams
in conference play,
which means the two will
have a coin flip to
decide the No. 2 and No.
3 seeds at the
tournament. Westminster
will be the No. 4 seed.
The LCSC men will open
against No. 8 seed
Montana Tech on
Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Montana Tech tied Great
Falls for the No. 7
spot, but Great Falls
earns the better seed
because of the
tiebreaker.
The conference
tournaments runs through
Saturday and the two
champions earn automatic
berths to the national
tournaments in
mid-March.
