BB: IIAC: Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[baseballfans4life]

Can anyone shed some insight to how it works with the standings when some teams fail to play all their games and others get all their games in.

[BigPoppa]

Depends on the conference, but most will use winning percentage for conference games at that point if all else fails. It could be a likely scenario in both the IIAC and CCIW this year.

[youcantseemestill]

Can anyone shed some insight to how it works with the standings when some teams fail to play all their games and others get all their games in.

If there are any ties in this conference the first tie-breaker is head to head if the teams in question played the same number of games.  If they nave NOT played the same amount of games, winning percentage ranks the teams.  If the teams are tied and they SPLIT their head-to-head games, the tie breaker goes by how the teams did against the other teams in the standings........for example: (can't actually happen this year)
Loras and BVU tie for first place......they split their season series........Coe sits in 3rd place.......BVU went 2-1 against Coe, Loras went 1-2 against Coe........BVU wins the tie breaker.

Make sense?

[SLP-O-8]

Loras actually took the 3rd game in the series against the beavers to win the series.  BV owns the series against everyone but Wartburg and Loras.   Having to cancel the 3rd game with cornell is probably going to come back to screw the beavers over.  That was the day they expected huge amounts of storms and canceled it early for it not to snow until way after the game would have been completed.  Oh well thats how things go sometimes but shaping up for a wild tuesday and weekend to say the least.

[Kohawk Krazy]

Loras actually took the 3rd game in the series against the beavers to win the series.  BV owns the series against everyone but Wartburg and Loras.   Having to cancel the 3rd game with cornell is probably going to come back to screw the beavers over.  That was the day they expected huge amounts of storms and canceled it early for it not to snow until way after the game would have been completed.  Oh well thats how things go sometimes but shaping up for a wild tuesday and weekend to say the least.

Same way that Coe not getting to play two games against Dubuque, who they beat 13-1 in the first game, could change things.  We'll never know...

[Floyd in Iowa City]

Congrats to the Norse for winning the B.V. series in Decorah this afternoon.  They may not end up winning the league as there are so many others in the same shape, but it was a big win against a very good team this year.  Luther is now 24-11 and 12-7 in the IIAC going into the series against Dubuque this weekend.

Congrats to St. Thomas for beating Minnesota and showing that anything can happen on a given day and that good Division III teams are good baseball teams!

I was lucky enough to play on a team that beat UNI and Creighton, but there is something special to someone like me to play the Big Ten schools.  We were supposed to play Iowa my senior year but it was rained/snowed out.  That had to feel great for those Minnesota natives on the St. Thomas roster to beat the Big Ten state school that most of them grew up following.

[BigPoppa]

In my opinion, BV has played themselves out of the NCAA tourney.

[Floyd in Iowa City]

Congrats as well to Coe for bouncing back from the Luther series to sweep the Wartburg series today, 9-6.  Coe is now 14-8 in the Iowa Conference while Wartburg is 13-8.

Loras just missed a walkoff HR just now against Dubuque in the bottom of the 11th.  The game is tied 7-7.  I have been following the last couple of innings of the Duhawk broadcast on the website.

[Floyd in Iowa City]

Loras just won 8-7.  They swept Dubuque and moved to 13-6 in the Iowa Conference.  They have three at Cornell this weekend.

[BigPoppa]

Loras just won 8-7.  They swept Dubuque and moved to 13-6 in the Iowa Conference.  They have three at Cornell this weekend.

Loras certainly has the inside track on the #1 seed in tourney. Getting an extra day game off is always a plus in the post-season.

[TheSportsFan]

Luther defeated Dubuque 16-1 in 7 innings.

Wartburg loses to Central 14-5

Buena Vista loses to Simpson 9-2

Unless Loras loses 2 of 3 to Cornell this weekend, and Luther wins at least one of two against Dubuque tomorrow.......IIAC seeds will be

#1 Loras
#2 Luther
#3 Coe
#4 Buena Vista/Wartburg
#5 Buena Vista/Wartburg
#6 Simpson/Central

That includes tiebreakers.......I believe everything adds up.

[Floyd in Iowa City]

More than the seedings for Cedar Rapids, Loras, Luther, and possibly Coe have to still be thinking about the regular season title.  A large Friday night loss does not mean that Cornell is going to mail it in tomorrow, but Loras is on quite the roll right now.

Congrats to Central and Simpson for getting a win today as both teams are just fighting to keep playing baseball past this weekend.

Loras won the Iowa Conference North Division title in 1952 when there was no playoff that year with South Division winner Simpson to see who the league champion would be.  From what I can tell, that is the only Iowa Conference championship-type season that the Duhawks have had in baseball since 1947.

Tomorrow is a very big and potentially historic day down in Mount Vernon. 

[Floyd in Iowa City]

Loras won 12-8 tonight against the Rams.  Cornell tied the game up at 7-7 in the 7th, but Loras scored 5 in the 8th.  Like the midweek game against Dubuque, the Loras bats continue to score tons of runs as they have now won 11 of their last 12 games.  They have scored 117 runs in those 12 games.

Cornell tonight threw the best starting pitcher they have statistically in Casey Korn, so the Rams are going to need some luck to get one or two games tomorrow.

Loras will be throwing Austin Safranski (7-0 record) and maybe even Kyler Laurie (8-1 record).

When was the last time someone got hot at the end of the season like this to come out of the middle of the standings to potentially win the conference title?

[Floyd in Iowa City]

Luther won 7-0 and 9-1 today to sweep the series against Dubuque.  The Norse are now 27-11 overall and 15-7 in the Iowa Conference.

I don't know about the 2nd game in Mount Vernon, but supposedly Cornell won the 1st game 18-17!  If that is true, wow!

Whether the Norse win the league outright or share with Loras, congrats to the Norse for winning a 2nd league title in the last 3 seasons (tied with Wartburg in the great race in 2007)!

[Floyd in Iowa City]

Here is the Iowa Conference co-champion article from the Luther website:

http://sports.luther.edu/men/baseball/season/2009/recaps/dubuquedaytwo.htm

Cornell scored 10 runs in the bottom of the 7th to win game 1 over Loras, 18-17.  From a Norse perspective, Thank You Rams!

Loras wins its first conference title in baseball since 1952, or perhaps ever if you don't count division winners as co-champs, so congrats Duhawks on coming back to win the final game against the Rams, 10-4.

Here are the final standings on the IIAC website:

http://www.iowaconference.com/men/baseball/2008-09/standings.htm

I am very happy that the Norse got a piece of the conference title, but I still wish they had made up the two games against the Rams.  The Wartburg and Luther co-championship in 2007 seemed very legit in that both schools ran away from the other 7 teams in the league, and both schools played the same exact amount of conference games against the same opponents.  Both Wartburg and Luther played everyone in the league 3 times that year except that both played Central twice.

Bad weather is part of the game, but I wish IIAC baseball was more open about making games up.  IIAC softball seems more open about making games up.

So congrats to both Luther and Loras!  Congrats also to Coe for a good league race this year.  Coe sweeping Wartburg was history in itself in that the Knights regular season run of winning or being co-champs ended.