The conference champion will be determined by the winner of the postseason tournament and the champion receives an automatic bid to the NCAA championship.

If a tie occurs in the final standings, the following tie-breaker system will be used to determine the participants in the conference tournament:

Two Team Tie: The winner of the regular season, in-conference head-to-head will gain the higher seed. If teams tied or the game was not completed, the following criteria are applied:

The team with the most SAA Points earned against succeeding teams in the final standings earns the higher seed.
The team with the highest goal differential in SAA play (with a cap of three goals per game) earns the higher seed.
The team with the fewest goals allowed in SAA play earns the higher seed.
The team with the most goals scored in SAA play (cap on three goals a game) earns the higher seed.
The team with the most SAA Points earned in away games (applied only if teams play an equal number of away games earns the higher seed).
If two teams remain tied, the visiting team in the head-to-head draw earns the higher seed.
If any tie cannot be broken for any reason, the final NCAA Division III NPI rankings will be used to break any remaining ties.

Three (or more) team Tie: Highest head-to-head win-loss percentage of the tied teams against each other is first considered. The team with the best win-loss percentage is ranked first, followed by the team with the next best win-loss percentage and continuing unless there is a tie in the group. If two teams remain, revert to “two-teams” tiebreaking procedure. If three or more teams remain tied, the following criteria listed above is applied in order until a tie is broken; Note, once a seed is determined after a criteria is applied, the procedure restarts with remaining teams until all seeds are determined.

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