How did Duke manage to get into a conference championship?

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Three (or More) Team Tie The three (or more)team tiebreaker procedure:

a. Combined head-to-head win-percentage among the tied teams if all tied teams are common opponents.

b. If all tied teams are not common opponents, the tied team that defeated each of the other tied teams. i. If all tied teams are not common opponents and no tied team defeated each of the other tied teams, but a tied team lost to each of the other tied teams, such team shall be eliminated and removed from the tie.

c. Win-percentage against all common opponents.

d. Win-percentage against common opponents based upon their order of finish (overall conference win percentage,with ties broken) and proceeding through other common opponents based upon their order of finish.

e. Combined win-percentage of conference opponents. *

f. The tied team with the highest ranking by the Team Rating Score metric provided by SportSource Analytics following the conclusion of regular season games.

g. The participant shall be chosen by a draw as administered by the Commissioner or Commissioner’s designee.

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