It's possible for the Osaka Evessa, Rizing Fukuoka and Ryukyu Golden Kings to all finish with identical 32-20 records.

But in the wacky world of bj-league tiebreakers, head-to-head records wouldn't play a factor in determining which team would be the regular-season Western Conference champion.

Point differential, the difference in a team's scoring average minus its points allowed per game, is the rule of law for the fifth-year league, and so it never hurts to run up the score against an opponent. After all, those points could come in handy in the final mathematical calculations.