by the numbers

Conference Tournament Central – FOUR

Endicott plays at Nichols in just about a couple of hours to determine the 2nd to last Automatic Bid from the NEVC. Nichols looks to start the match with a 79%-win probability making Endicott pretty close to a 4-1 dog. If there is to be at least one dog who wins a conference championship in 2025, it is looking like Endicott would have the best chance to do it right now. This is because all except the UVC have already been determined with 12 of twelve #1 seeds scanning their tickets already. Taken together with Nazareth having an 11% chance to defeat the undefeated #1 team in the land starting just an hour later in the UVC final at NYU, there is a 71% chance the conference week will end up 14 for 14 in #1 seeds all claiming the auto-bid prize. Not sure it has ever happened before. Certainly not with 14 of them to go around as there are this year. (Last year there were 3 of 11 conferences represented by teams not the highest seed in their conferences and the year before that there were 5.) Here is a look at the week’s results: