A NEW STATE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT PROPOSAL - CLASS SIX SEEDED SUPER REGIONS AS AN EXAMPLE

 Everyone is complaining about the stacked districts and how great teams in the top ten are not going to be in the state tournament.  I was looking around and saw the Kansas high school setup and came up with an example of how class six would look like with state-wide seeding.

How do you seed?  You use something like Gramps metrics or something similar.

Currently, many of the top teams are in the same district.  Here's the current class six ratings and teams rated by district:


You can see the problem with the current MSHSAA district system below.  Districts 5, 6, 7, and 8 are stacked with top ten teams.  It is unfair to teams like Staley and North Kansas City in District 8 with #1 Oak Park, or Kickapoo and Nixa with Springfield Central in District 5.  Only one team emerges from the current district playoffs.  What's a better way to get the best teams in a state tournament?



The State of Kansas uses a super region system.  They pull teams into four quadrants, two in the East, two in the West and seed the teams.  Four teams emerge from this set-up.  It seems fairer but not quite different enough to get the best teams in the quarterfinals.

Now the District pairings in the first round are somewhat similar to what MSHSAA does now.  The top seed faces the bottom seed, the second faces the second-to-last seed in the opposite bracket.  But this is where my system changes.  After the first round, the 32 qualifiers go to four Super Regionals in the East and West part of the state.  




Here are the winners of the first round that go into each Super Regional and are reseeded.  Districts 1 and 2 would make up the SE Super Regional, Districts 3 and 4, the NE Regional, Districts 5 and 6 the SW Regional and Districts 7 and 8 the NW Super Regional.



Districts 1 and 2 would make up the SE Super Regional, Districts 3 and 4, the NE Regional, Districts 5 and 6 the SW Regional and Districts 7 and 8 the NW Super Regional.  Once the teams are reseeded, the commence Super Regional play with the highest seed playing the lowest qualifier in the Region and so forth.


After the first round of the Super Regional, these teams are left....

Below is the sixteen teams left for the state tournament. The sixteen teams that qualify from the Super Regionals would then be seeded for the state tournament.




 Again, all sixteen teams are seeded with the top seed, Oak Park, facing the bottom seed, CBC in the top bracket, then the second seed, Cardinal Ritter, in the bottom bracket, facing the second to last seed, St. Dominic.  The entire tournament is set up like holiday tournaments to get the best teams to the finals.


Here are the State quarterfinal brackets, semi-final, and final in our hypothetical tournament.  The eight teams left in the quarterfinals are ranked 1-8!  THE BEST EIGHT TEAMS ARE IN THE QUARTERFINALS.  Of course, that suggests no upsets, as I am sure there would be.  But the system is seeded several times to ensure the best teams do not face each other too early in the tournament.


I hope you have enjoyed this little adventure, looking at a different setup up for state tournaments.


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