南卡罗来纳州Gamecocks在SEC锦标赛中赢得一枚硬币冠军以赢得第一号种子

得克萨斯州的长角牛和南卡罗来纳州的Gamecocks竭尽

The Texas Longhorns and the South Carolina Gamecocks each did everything they could to stake their respective claim to be the No. 1 seed in the upcoming SEC Tournament. But ultimately, their fate ended up being completely out of their own hands, and instead in the hands of SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey.

得克萨斯州的长角牛和南卡罗来纳州的Gamecocks竭尽所能，以将各自声称是即将到来的SEC锦标赛中排名第一的种子。但最终，他们的命运最终完全脱离了自己的手，而是由SEC专员格雷格·桑基（Greg Sankey）手中的手中。

As both teams finished the season with a 15-1 conference record after each of their SEC losses came against each other, their fate came down to an all-or-nothing coin toss during halftime of the SEC matchup between Ole Miss and LSU on the SEC Network Sunday.

当两支球队在本赛季的SEC损失互相击败之后，本赛季以15-1的成绩结束了比赛，他们的命运在周日的SEC网络中的Ole Miss和LSU之间的SEC对决的半场结束时，他们的命运归结为全有或全无的硬币。

Gamecocks win the coin toss!@GamecockWBB will be the No. 1 seed in the SEC women’s tournament 🤙 pic.twitter.com/ouJD6hkmVP

Gamecocks赢得了硬币！

— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) March 2, 2025

- SEC网络（@SecNetwork）2025年3月2日

For an entire regular season worth of conference play to come down to a coin toss is certainly not what Texas or South Carolina envisioned at the start of the season.

对于整个常规赛来说，归结为硬币折腾的赛季肯定不是德克萨斯州或南卡罗来纳州本赛季开始时所设想的。

Naturally, there were plenty of media members who thought that the coin toss tiebreaker was ridiculous and other factors should have come into play before it came to this point.

自然，有很多媒体成员认为硬币抛弃是荒谬的，在这一点之前也应该发挥其他因素。

“A coin flip? C’mon,” wrote longtime college basketball analyst Jeff Goodman in a post on X.

“硬币翻转？来吧。

C’mon.

这是。

A coin flip?

硬币翻转？

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) March 2, 2025

- 杰夫·古德曼（@goodmanhoops）2025年3月2日

“In a sports world driven more and more by data and metrics, it all came down to… a coin toss,” wrote Scott Hamilton of 107.5 The Game in Columbia, South Carolina. “And an awkward one at that.”

107.5的斯科特·汉密尔顿（Scott Hamilton）在南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚的比赛中，斯科特·汉密尔顿（Scott Hamilton）写道：“在一个越来越多的数据和指标驱动的体育界，这一切都归结为……一枚硬币。” “那是一个尴尬的人。”

However, some others believed that the coin toss was a positive considering it provided some entertaining drama to build interest for the SEC Tournament.

但是，其他一些人认为，考虑到一些有趣的戏剧来引起SEC锦标赛的兴趣，因此抛售硬币是积极的。

“This should be every conference’s No. 2 tiebreaker after head-to-head for every sport. It’s made-for-TV drama and it’s easy to understand,” wrote Chris Vannini of The Athletic.

“这应该是每项运动的每一次会议的第二场决胜局。这是为电视连续剧制作的，很容易理解。”

On paper, it sure seems like there are other statistics that could be looked at the replace the randomness of a coin toss in the future.

从表面上看，似乎还有其他统计数据可以考虑将来替换硬币折腾的随机性。

In this situation where the first two tiebreakers do not apply, you could certainly look at the point differential in the head-to-head matchups between the two teams. Or even the point differential of the two teams throughout SEC play if you want a larger sample size.

在这种情况下，前两个决胜局不适用，您肯定可以查看两支球队之间正面对决的点差。如果您想要更大的样本量，甚至在整个SEC播放的两个团队中的点差异。

Even if either of those two tiebreakers did come before a coin toss, South Carolina would have won on those tiebreakers and been the No. 1 seed over Texas anyways. So at least everything worked out the way that most believed that it should have.

即使这两个决胜局中的任何一个都在抛弃硬币之前也是如此，南卡罗来纳州也会赢得那些决胜局的胜利，无论如何还是德克萨斯州的第一种子。因此，至少一切都按照大多数人认为应该拥有的方式解决了。