After each groups completed their season finales with wins on Sunday, each the Texas Longhorns and South Carolina Gamecocks are SEC regular-season champions.
The Gamecocks claimed a share of the regular-season championship for the fourth consecutive season, whereas the Longhorns claimed a share of their first yr within the convention.
The Gamecocks are Longhorns every went 15-1 in convention play with their solely loss coming to one another.
With the best way that issues performed out, each groups clearly couldn’t be the No. 1 seed within the SEC Match, which means that some type of tiebreaker would must be checked out to settle who that No. 1 seed can be.
The primary tiebreaker is head-to-head matchup and that was no good contemplating every staff had crushed the opposite one as soon as in the course of the season.
The second tiebreaker checked out document towards widespread opponents, which was additionally no good as each Texas and South Carolina beat everybody else that they performed within the SEC. That took issues right down to the third and closing tiebreaker within the rulebook.
Insert, the coin flip. That is proper, the No 1. seed within the SEC Match got here right down to a coin flip from SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and it was televised dwell on SEC Community.
Because the video reveals, South Carolina was the winner of the coin flip, and the Gamecocks will enter the event because the No. 1 seed as they give the impression of being to win the event for the third consecutive season and fifth time within the final six years.
The event will start on Wednesday, in Greenville, South Carolina and can conclude Sunday.
With the best way issues have gone within the SEC this season, it could be stunning to see anybody besides Texas and South Carolina within the championship recreation.
