Tiebreakers in place for West race

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Southwestern Athletic Confer-ence Council of Presidents and Chancellors today approved the coin flip procedure for the final step of the conference’s three-team tiebreaker.
The procedure would be put in place only if Grambling State defeated Texas Southern Thursday and loses to Southern next week. If that occurs, Grambling State, Prairie View A&M and Southern would finish with identical 6-1 records in SWAC play. In following the three-team tiebreaker procedure, none of the previous six steps would eliminate one team from the other two.
In the three-team coin flip, three coins (one from each school) would be flipped by a school representative simultaneously. The odd coin not matching the other two coins would be eliminated. If all three coins come up as the same designation, a second coin flip would take place and would repeat until one coin comes up different from the other two within that round.
The two schools with the same coin designation would then follow the steps for the two-team tiebreaker (with the first step being head-to-head competition) to determine the Western Division representative for the 2008 SWAC Championship Game on Saturday, Dec. 13.
If the coin flip were necessary to break the tie between the three teams, it would occur Sunday, Nov. 30 in New Orleans at a location to be announced.