Kats to open CUSA Bowling Championship

HARAHAN, La. — Sam Houston will travel to Colonial Lanes as the seventh seed for the Conference USA Bowling Championship Wednesday through Sunday.

The Bearkats' double-elimination bracket will begin on Wednesday morning against No. 10 Valparaiso. The winner will go on to play Youngstown State on Thursday.

Defending national champions Jax State is the top seed. Youngstown State earned the No. 2 seed, Vanderbilt secured the No. 3 seed and Wichita State claimed the No. 4 seed going into the championship.

Round one on Wednesday will also feature a match up between No. 8 LA Tech and No. 9 Tulane. The winner will move on to face the top-seeded Gamecocks on Thursday.

No. 4 WSU will face No. 5 Arkansas State Thursday morning at 9 a.m., along with No. 3 Vanderbilt facing off against No. 6 Stephen F. Austin.

The contender's bracket starts on Thursday at 2 p.m. The next round of winner's bracket will begin 9 a.m. on Friday. Semifinals will be on Saturday.

The championship is slated for Sunday, March 23.

Championship Format
The Conference USA Championship is determined by the mega-match format. A mega-match encompasses three different rounds or points, and a team must get to two points to win the match.
The first round is the traditional format. Each team in the match has five players bowl a full game, and each individual's total score is added together for the team total. Whichever team has the highest score from all five individual games wins the point and leads the mega-match 1-0.

The second round of the mega-match is the Baker total pinfall portion, which consists of five games. The winner is determined by adding the pinfall of all five games together. In the Baker format, lineups are comprised of five bowlers with each being responsible for two frames in each game. The leadoff player bowls in frames one and six. The second person in the lineup bowls in frames two and seven, etc. If the team that wins the traditional round also wins the Baker pinfall round, they win the match 2-0. If the team that lost the traditional round wins the Baker point, the mega-match is tied 1-1 and goes to a best-of-seven Baker match play format.

In the best-of-seven tiebreaker format, instead of adding five games together to determine a total, all that matters is the score each game. Winning 300-175 of 176-175 has the same weight. The first team to four games wins the point and wins the mega-match 2-1.

How To Keep Up
The tournament bracket, results and TV links can be found on our Championship Central page. Each round of the tournament will be streamed live on ESPN+. Admission to the championship is free.

Kats to open CUSA Bowling Championship

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