The 2011 Cascade Collegiate Conference Volleyball Championships will be held Nov. 11-12. Seeding for the four-team, single-elimination tournament will be based on regular season conference finish. The semifinals and finals will be hosted by the regular season conference champion. The tournament winner will earn the league’s automatic bid to the NAIA Championships.
Friday, Nov. 11 (Semifinals)
Site: College of Idaho
4 p.m. -- #2 seed (Southern Oregon) vs. #3 seed (Eastern Oregon)
7 pm.. -- #1 seed (College of Idaho) vs. #4 seed (Northwest)
Saturday, Nov. 12 (Championship)
Site: regular season champion
3 p.m. -- Semifinal winners
Tiebreakers
If a tie exists between any teams, it shall be broken according to the following tiebreaker procedures. Only conference counting matches will be used in the following tie-breaker procedures:
(1) Results of head-to-head competition between/among tied schools. (Clarification: This would work in the case of a two-way or three-way tie because of the words between and or among. Example, in the three-way tie, if one school were 3-1 against the other two schools and the others were 2-2 or 1-3, the tie break would work; if not, then on to number 2.)
(2) Percent of total games won vs. tied opponent. Example: Team A def. Team B – three games to one; Team B def. Team A – three games to two; Team A would win the tie-breaker. The same would work for a three-way tie by taking games won vs. two tied opponents. Total games played vs. two tied opponents.
(3) Results of competition against all conference schools in descending order. (If in the case that #1 and #2 did not work, the tying schools would then compare their results with the other teams in the conference beginning with the #1 team and descending until one of the teams had a better record against that team. In other words, if 2nd and 3rd were tied and the two teams had split head to head – same games won and lost – but one of the teams had split with the #1 team and the other had lost both, the team which split with #1 would win the tiebreaker. This would indicate that they competed well against the tougher teams in the conference.)
(4) Percent of total games won: games won divided by total games.
(5) Scoring margin of conference games: (offensive points minus defensive points) divided by (total games played).