WCC Uses Adjusted Conference Winning Percentage for WCC Tournament Seeding
2/27/2022 9:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball
SAN MATEO, Calif. — The West Coast Conference and renowned college basketball statistical analyst Ken Pomeroy have collaborated once again to develop a comprehensive model that will be utilized to seed the 2022 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament.
The WCC regularly conducts a 16-game unbalanced men's basketball regular-season schedule and an 18-game double round-robin women's basketball regular-season schedule, seeding the conference tournament based on conference winning percentage. With interruptions in the 2021-22 college basketball season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the WCC did not fully complete these conference schedules, leaving some disparity in the number of conference games completed among member programs. A number of games were declared no-contests, meaning some postponed games were not rescheduled.
The WCC partnered with Ken Pomeroy to develop a model that uses a proprietary algorithm that best reflects conference games completed and yields an adjusted conference winning percentage for each men's and women's basketball team. The adjusted conference winning percentage accounts for the strength of the opponent and the location (home/away) of the game played. The offensive and defensive efficiency metric is not utilized in the algorithm to determine a team's adjusted conference winning percentage. This is the same formula that was used last season.
With a focus on developing an evaluation tool that is the most accurate representation of conference regular season play, the WCC Presidents' Council voted to adopt the Ken Pomeroy adjusted conference winning percentage model designed for the WCC. The Conference will utilize this model to seed the men's and women's basketball tournament.
With the adopted model, both Gaels teams remain in their current spot in the standings. The 23rd-ranked men's team will be the second seed in the WCC Tournament, beginning in the semifinals at 8:30 pm PT on Monday, March 8. The women will secure a fifth seed and begin their run to the title on Friday, March 4 at 12:00 pm PT against either Pepperdine or Loyola Marymount.
More information and a full preview of the WCC Tournament will be on SMCGaels.com as the week progresses.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
The WCC regularly conducts a 16-game unbalanced men's basketball regular-season schedule and an 18-game double round-robin women's basketball regular-season schedule, seeding the conference tournament based on conference winning percentage. With interruptions in the 2021-22 college basketball season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the WCC did not fully complete these conference schedules, leaving some disparity in the number of conference games completed among member programs. A number of games were declared no-contests, meaning some postponed games were not rescheduled.
The WCC partnered with Ken Pomeroy to develop a model that uses a proprietary algorithm that best reflects conference games completed and yields an adjusted conference winning percentage for each men's and women's basketball team. The adjusted conference winning percentage accounts for the strength of the opponent and the location (home/away) of the game played. The offensive and defensive efficiency metric is not utilized in the algorithm to determine a team's adjusted conference winning percentage. This is the same formula that was used last season.
With a focus on developing an evaluation tool that is the most accurate representation of conference regular season play, the WCC Presidents' Council voted to adopt the Ken Pomeroy adjusted conference winning percentage model designed for the WCC. The Conference will utilize this model to seed the men's and women's basketball tournament.
With the adopted model, both Gaels teams remain in their current spot in the standings. The 23rd-ranked men's team will be the second seed in the WCC Tournament, beginning in the semifinals at 8:30 pm PT on Monday, March 8. The women will secure a fifth seed and begin their run to the title on Friday, March 4 at 12:00 pm PT against either Pepperdine or Loyola Marymount.
More information and a full preview of the WCC Tournament will be on SMCGaels.com as the week progresses.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
| RANK | TEAM | AWP | W-L | SOS | SOS RANK |
| 1 | Gonzaga | .921 | 13-1 | .483 | 6 |
| 2 | Saint Mary's | .816 | 12-3 | .511 | 4 |
| 3 | Santa Clara | .673 | 10-5 | .492 | 5 |
| 4 | San Francisco | .655 | 10-6 | .517 | 3 |
| 5 | BYU | .595 | 9-6 | .480 | 8 |
| 6 | Portland | .429 | 7-7 | .451 | 10 |
| 7 | San Diego | .411 | 7-9 | .483 | 7 |
| 8 | LMU | .222 | 3-12 | .531 | 2 |
| 9 | Pacific | .183 | 3-11 | .455 | 9 |
| 10 | Pepperdine | .095 | 1-15 | .555 | 1 |
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
| RANK | TEAM | AWP | W-L | SOS | SOS RANK |
| 1 | BYU | .921 | 15-1 | .464 | 10 |
| 2 | Gonzaga | .870 | 15-2 | .469 | 9 |
| 3 | San Francisco | .555 | 10-8 | .495 | 7 |
| 4 | Portland | .530 | 8-7 | .493 | 8 |
| 5 | Saint Mary's | .501 | 9-9 | .501 | 6 |
| 6 | San Diego | .493 | 8-9 | .520 | 3 |
| 7 | Santa Clara | .448 | 8-10 | .507 | 4 |
| 8 | Pepperdine | .257 | 4-11 | .506 | 5 |
| 9 | LMU | .241 | 4-13 | .524 | 2 |
| 10 | Pacific | .184 | 3-14 | .530 | 1 |
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