Last year I think we were hurt by the double bye. It would almost be to our benefit to finish third and have a game against a lessor opponent to get the kinks out. Time for some senior leadership. Have fun ladies, the sun will still rise tomorrow whether you win or lose.
Someone help me out here. NIU will get a double bye and if Kent & Ohio win out, they will be tied for second. I believe head to heads will be next determiner and we split with Kent. If team records in the East is the next criterion, and I'm not sure about that, then we have one fewer loss which would give us the double bye.
I'm not sure what the tiebreaker criteria are, and I can't seem to find it on the MAC website, but if it follows the same rules as men's basketball, then division record is the second criteria in the case only of division leaders.
However, a possible scenario would be that NIU loses one of its final matches (probably to WMU) and that would create a three-way tie for first between Ohio, NIU and Kent State. In that case, Kent State would be the #1 seed (with a 2-1 record vs. those teams), NIU would be #2 (with a 1-1 record) and Ohio would be #3 (with a 1-2 record).
And things could really change if Ohio loses one of its final two matches, though, of course, it should not lose to those teams.