南卡罗来纳州赢得SEC女子篮球锦标赛1号种子，通过翻转硬币

南卡罗来纳州和德克萨斯州在东南会议上以15-1的成绩结束了常规赛。

South Carolina and Texas have been two of the best teams in women’s college basketball all season long. Both teams finished the regular season in the top five of the latest AP Poll, each have paths to secure No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament, and both rank highly nationally in offensive and defensive metrics.

整个赛季，南卡罗来纳州和德克萨斯州一直是女子大学篮球比赛中最好的两支球队。两支球队都在最新的AP民意调查的前五名中完成了常规赛，每个球队都有在NCAA锦标赛中获得第一名种子的途径，并且在进攻和防守指标中都在全国范围内排名很高。

But the Gamecocks and Longhorns also ended the regular season with identical records, 15-1, in Southeastern Conference play. South Carolina beat Texas in Columbia, then the Longhorns got revenge over the Gamecocks in Austin.

但是Gamecocks和Longhorns在东南会议上以15-1的成绩结束了常规赛。南卡罗来纳州在哥伦比亚击败了德克萨斯州，然后长角牛对奥斯丁的甘埃克斯进行了报仇。

So, there was a tiebreaker protocol to follow in determining who would get the No. 1 overall seed in the SEC Tournament, which begins in Greenville, S.C., later this week. Some conferences have several steps and metrics to get through before they give way to chance and fate to decide the seeding. The ACC, for example, has five tie-breaking scenarios it uses for football. The Big Ten has a few parameters laid out for its basketball tournaments too.

因此，有一项决胜局协议可以遵循确定谁将在本周晚些时候在南卡罗来纳州格林维尔开始的SEC锦标赛中获得第一名。一些会议在他们让位于机会和命运决定播种之前有几个步骤和指标可以通过。例如，ACC有五种胜利的场景，用于足球。十大巨头也有一些参数为其篮球比赛提供。

Meanwhile, the SEC has just a two-step process in the event of a two-team tie atop the standings:

同时，在积分榜上两支球队的情况下，SEC只有一个两步的过程：

That’s it. And because South Carolina and Texas didn’t lose any other SEC games, the conference immediately moved to its third option, which was:

就是这样。而且由于南卡罗来纳州和德克萨斯州没有输掉任何其他SEC比赛，因此会议立即转移到了第三种选择，那就是：

Yes, really. Here’s how it played out on Sunday:

是的，真的。这是周日进行的方式：

Predictably, South Carolina celebrated while Texas felt robbed. Specifically, Longhorns coach Vic Schaefer was miffed by SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey’s claim that he practiced the coin flip for two hours.

可以预见的是，南卡罗来纳州在得克萨斯州感到被抢劫时庆祝了。具体来说，Longhorns教练Vic Sc​​haefer被SEC专员Greg Sankey的主张所说，他对硬币翻转了两个小时。

“So what was he practicing? Was he practicing for South Carolina to be heads up or Texas to be heads up?” Schaefer asked the AP. “I mean, why do you have to practice for two hours? What are you trying to get accomplished?”

“那么他在练习什么？他是在练习南卡罗来纳州，还是德克萨斯州来到头？” Schaefer问美联社。 “我的意思是，为什么您必须练习两个小时？您想完成什么？”

Using a coin flip to determine the No. 1 overall seed in a Power 4 conference tournament in 2025 feels lazy, at the very least. There are many qualifiers and statistics that could’ve been used to determine the outcome.

使用硬币翻转在2025年的Power 4 Conference Tournament中确定第一名的总种子，至少至少是懒惰的。有许多预选赛和统计数据可以用来确定结果。

Here’s a few scenarios the SEC could’ve used to figure this thing out instead:

这是SEC可以用来弄清楚这一点的几种情况：

Instead of doing all that math though, Sankey and the SEC did what they do best: they made everyone pay attention. They turned a simple coin flip into a television spectacle. For a few minutes on Sunday, the SEC commanded consideration. Women’s basketball fans tweeted about the coin flip and radio hosts had rants about it.

Sankey和SEC并没有做所有的数学，而是做了他们最擅长的事情：他们引起了所有人的注意。他们将简单的硬币翻转成电视奇观。 SEC在周日的几分钟内命令考虑。女子篮球迷在推特上发表了有关硬币翻转的推文，广播主持人对此感到烦恼。

Indeed, it just means more.

确实，这只是意味着更多。

So, mission accomplished, Mr. Sankey.

因此，任务完成了，Sankey先生。

But if you really want to drive up the ratings next time, don’t just settle for a coin flip. Give us a free throw contest or game of HORSE between the coaches of the two teams tied at the top. Let online sportbooks run betting lines on it.

但是，如果您真的想下次提高收视率，不要只是为了换取硬币翻转。在两支球队的教练之间，给我们一场罚球比赛或马比赛。让在线体育书在其上运行投注线。

Of course, the favorite would’ve been Dawn Staley.

当然，最喜欢的是黎明斯塔利。

Maybe the coin flip turned out how it was supposed to after all.

也许硬币翻转毕竟应该如何。