The Utah Jazz currently sit at 7th in the West. That's good enough to be a Playoff team, but with how tight the race is for the last four spots in the West we have to be careful not to celebrate too early. After all, the Utah Jazz are winning games, but are behind the crowd when it comes to this important tie-breaking factor: Conference record. If you rank the teams right now by overall record Utah is 7th. But by conference? They are 9th. And that means lotto. And the conference record IS important because the conference record is the second tie-breaker after head-to-head record.
Utah Jazz are in for now, but Conference Record tells another tale
