Over the last couple of weeks we’ve looked at the conference standings for various leagues seeing where the Oklahoma squads stack up and their postseason prospects heading into the last weekend of the regular season.
It’s time we do that for our junior college squads as this will be the last regular season series for those teams.
Division 1
Starting with Division 1, it is important to note that there are 5 teams in Region 2 in Division 1 and they are all from Oklahoma: Connors State, Eastern OK State College, Northeastern A&M (NEO), Rose State, and Seminole State.
Also, all 5 teams will play in the Region 2 Tournament with the winner advancing to the District Tournament. So essentially, these teams this week are playing for seeding in the upcoming tournament.
Seminole State is done with their regular season conference play so they are locked in at 14-10.
Connors State and Eastern play this weekend and they are both coming into the weekend at 11-10. Connors currently has a 2-1 season series lead as well.
NEO at 11-10 hosts Rose State who comes in at 7-14 and is locked in the 5th seed.
The most simple scenario this weekend is if neither Connors, Eastern, nor NEO sweep their series, the Trojans will finish alone in 1st.
If Connors sweeps Eastern, then they will tie Seminole, but the Trojans win the tiebreaker with a 4-2 record vs the Cowboys this season.
If Eastern or NEO sweep, they will tie Seminole as well, but each team has a 3-3 record. NEO won the season series vs Easter, 4-2, so I would imagine that would drop the Mountaineers to 3rd.
Division 2
Things are different on the Division 2 side. Region 2 is technically made up of teams from Oklahoma and Arkansas. While there aren’t any teams from Arkansas in Division 1, there are 8 from Arkansas and 6 from Oklahoma for a total of 14 in the Region.
How the postseason qualifying works for Division 2, is they take the top 4 finishers from the west and top 4 from the east into an 8 team tournament.
The West Standings are:
- NOC Tonkawa, 15-5
- Murray State, 13-7
- NOC Enid, 11-9
- Carl Albert State, 9-11
- UA Rich Mountain, 9-11
- Redlands, 8-16
- Western OK State, 7-13
Redlands is done with their season and will not make the tournament.
Schedule for this weekend
- NOC Tonkawa vs Western
- Murray State vs NOC Enid
- Carl Albert State vs UARM
NOC Tonkawa
- Current place: 1st
- Best finish possible: 1st
- Worst finish possible: 2nd
For the Mavericks their magic number is 3. That means any combination of wins by the Mavs and/or losses by the Aggies that equals 3, then the Mavs win the Region.
Murray State
- Current place: 2nd
- Best finish possible: 1st
- Worst finish possible: 3rd
If the Aggies were to finish 1 game ahead of the Mavs then they win the Region. That means Murray State would have to win their series vs Enid 3-1 and the Mavs get swept by Western or the Aggies can sweep the Jets while the Mavs win just 1 game vs the Pioneers.
The Aggies can slip to 3rd if the Jets win the series over Murray State 3-1 or sweep the Aggies. A 3-1 series win by the Jets would tie MSC, but give Enid the tiebreaker. A sweep would put NOC Enid 1 game ahead in the standings.
NOC Enid
- Current place: 3rd
- Best finish possible: 2nd
- Worst finish possible: ???
Enid is low key the most interesting scenario. As stated above, if they win their series with Murray State, they would be the 2 seed.
The simplest scenario for the Jets is win and they are in. If they win at least 1 game vs Murray State, then only one team between Carl Albert State and UARM can tie them.
There is a scenario where Enid, CASC, and UARM are all tied at 11-13. Enid would have to get swept by Murray State and CASC and UARM would split their series. At this point the 3 teams would be tied for the final 2 spots. Enid won their series with UARM, 3-1, but lost to CASC, 1-3. All 3 squads would have equal amounts of wins and losses to each other and this writer doesn’t know what the Region 2 tiebreakers would be in that scenario.
*Just a few moments after this was posted, the Jets beat Murray State in game 1 of their series. That means NOC Enid is locked into the Region 2 tournament. The only question is what seed they will be.
Carl Albert State
- Current place: T4
- Best possible finish: 3rd
- Worst possible finish: 6th
We’ve laid out the various scenarios for the Vikings above, but they can make it simple on themselves if they win the series outright over the Bucks. After that it’ll be just a matter if they’ll be the 3 or 4.
If the Vikings lose the series to UARM then they are out.
If they split, then Western has a chance to overtake both teams for the 4th spot.
*Was told today (Thursday) that the tiebreaker between 2 teams if they split the series is their record vs the top ranked team. At this point the top ranked team is NOC Tonkawa who has a magic number of 1 over Murray State. If that holds, the Vikings would get the #4 spot due to their series split with the Mavs where UARM got swept by Tonkawa.
Western OK State
- Current place: 7th
- Best possible finish: 4th
- Worst possible finish: 7th
For the Pioneers, it is simple. They have to sweep NOC Tonkawa to have any chance. Then they have to hope the scenario happens where NOC Enid gets swept and Carl Albert/UARM splits. This will put all 4 teams at 11-13 and to be honest, this writer doesn’t know what the tiebreaker would be in that scenario.
If the Pioneers lose a game to Tonkawa, then their season is done after this weekend.
Unfortunately due to the tiebreaker scenario described in the CASC breakdown, the Pioneers will not be able to qualify for the postseason.
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