HawgBeat – Examining Arkansas’ SEC Tourney scenarios with 1 game left

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The SEC West race will come right down to the ultimate day of the common season, as Arkansas and Texas A&M stay tied atop the standings.

Each groups are 18-11 after profitable their first recreation of the weekend, solely to comply with it up with a loss Friday evening. The Razorbacks fell 8-6 towards Alabama, whereas the Aggies dropped a 14-6 determination at Ole Miss.

If the groups stay tied after Saturday’s video games, which means they each win or each lose, they’ll be acknowledged as co-division champions by the SEC, regardless that Texas A&M holds the head-to-head tiebreaker.

It could be much like Arkansas’ division titles in 2018 and 2019, when it shared the respect with Ole Miss and Mississippi State, respectively. The Razorbacks misplaced their collection towards the Rebels in 2018, however beat the Bulldogs in 2019.

The one place the tiebreaker issues is on the SEC Event. At that occasion, the Aggies would get the two seed as a result of they took two of three towards Arkansas in School Station final month.

The one approach for the Razorbacks to be the two seed is to win the SEC West outright, which might require beating Alabama and Texas A&M shedding to Ole Miss on Saturday. In any other case, they may find yourself as the three seed.

Having already wrapped up a first-round bye to robotically transfer into the double-elimination portion of the SEC Event, the one distinction between the two and three seeds is after they play and who they’d face.

The three seed will get the primary recreation of the day Wednesday, with a scheduled first pitch at 9:30 a.m. CT, whereas the two seed performs the sport proper after that, seemingly round 1 p.m.

The Razorbacks’ opponent will play a single-elimination recreation Tuesday. They’ll both face the winner of the 6-11 matchup as the three seed or the winner of the 7-10 matchup as the two seed.

Just one recreation presently separates 4 groups that can find yourself with the 6, 7, 8 and 9 seeds in Hoover. Florida is sitting at 15-14 and one recreation forward of Georgia, Ole Miss and Vanderbilt, every of that are 14-15.

The tiebreakers are too quite a few to work out, however two of these groups will find yourself because the 6 and seven seeds that might doubtlessly face Arkansas on Wednesday.

There’s a bit of bit extra readability for the ten and 11 seeds. South Carolina would clinch the ten seed with a win over Florida or an Alabama loss to Arkansas. The Gamecocks might slip to the 11 seed if neither of these issues occur, but when they do, Alabama or Kentucky will find yourself in that slot.

The one issues set in stone for subsequent week’s SEC Event are the highest and backside of the standings. Tennessee gained the regular-season convention title and clinched the 1 seed final weekend and Mississippi State grew to become the primary staff eradicated from Hoover when it misplaced Friday evening.

Between these two faculties, there might nonetheless be a number of motion. Auburn and LSU are combating for the 4 seed and ultimate first-round bye, Kentucky and Missouri are combating for the twelfth and ultimate spot within the SEC Event and the others are jostling for place.

Most of Saturday’s video games — together with the Arkansas-Alabama rubber match on SEC Community-Plus — are scheduled to start out at 1 p.m. CT, however the Texas A&M-Ole Miss rubber match has a 1:30 p.m. first pitch and Tennessee-Mississippi State begins at 2 p.m.