How many losses for first place team?

[bbtds]

Jan 20, 2011 17:01:33 GMT -5 bbtds said:

Why is 14-2 suddenly the magic mark? Nobody ever won the HL season with 3 losses. My guess, without looking, is that the average number of conferences losses for a 1st place team is 4.

I was wrong about the average but how many losses will the #1 seed and host of the HL tourney have?

[agibson]

Expanding wh's analysis a little bit, taking records from
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_League_Men%27s_Basketball_Tournament

and going back to the '95 season (just after the Mid-Con mass exodus).

The league winner's had zero losses on three occasions, two losses on six occasions,
three losses on four occasions, and four losses on three occasions.

[agibson]

I thought this bit from the Dayton Daily News was cute, from Sunday evening
www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/wrightstatesports/entries/2011/01/23/at_halftime_point_no_separatio.html

Many leagues are close at this time, of course, but the Horizon League is one of just four conferences (of 33 in Division I) that doesn’t have at least one team with one conference loss or fewer. The others are the Big West, Northeast and Ohio Valley.

We've played more conference games than many conferences. Heck, there are teams in the Ivy that haven't _started_ conference play. But, still, a cute bit of info.