The Milwaukee Wave, currently leading the Major Indoor Soccer League standings at 10-6, clinched one of the league's three playoff berths and could be the host for the revived league's championship game, if things work out well.
The top three teams in the league advance to the playoffs, with the regular season champion earning a bye to the championship game, which they host. Should the Wave do that, the game takes place April 4 at US Cellular Arena.
The second and third place teams -- most likely the Baltimore Blast and La Raza de Monterrey -- will meet in a two-game, aggregate-goal series to determine the championship game opponent.
The Wave have qualified for the postseason in all but two of the 15 seasons of existence -- in 1991-92, the first season in the original MISL for longtime head coach Keith Tozer, and the 2008-09 season, when they played in the Xtreme Soccer League, which did not have playoffs and simply awarded the league title to the regular season champion Detroit Ignition.
To secure their hosting duties for the MISL title game, any of the following has to happen:
- The Wave need to win their final two games OR the Blast must lose their last two games, which takes the Blast out of the running for the regular season title.
- The Wave need only win one game OR see that La Raza loses one game, which takes Monterrey out of the running as well.
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