What IF ???
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:19 am
What if the NDHSAA decided to go to a sweet 16 format like South Dakota does for their playoff basketball. How i see it happening would be you play your region as a single elimination tourney.(super region format.) But you play it out till the championship game, you dont crown a region champ or have a region championship game. Each region gets 2 qualifiers to the sweet 16 you reseed them 1-16 and the winners advance just like a march madness tourney.
example would be:
Region 1- Wyndmere-Lidgerwood, Oak Grove
Region 2- Hillsboro-Central Valley,Grafton
Region 3-Carrington, Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier
Region 4- St. John, Langdon/Edmore/Munich
Region 5- Shiloh, Standing Rock
Region 6-Bishop Ryan, Rugby
Region 7- Beulah,Dickinson Trinity
Region 8-Stanley, New Town
so now we would have to reseed these 16 teams 1-16 and play it out all the way.
not that our state tourney wasn't competitive as all games i felt were good games to watch.
but i feel this would give us a even better state tourney and have all 8 teams be the best 8 teams in the state. I am all for this format or everyone plays a super regional and that would be how we get our 8. call me old school but the district tourneys are a joke IMO. you can loose and still make the state tourney, cmon that is not playoff basketball. playoff basketball means you are fighting for another game one slip up and your done. Thoughts ?????
Lavars World
example would be:
Region 1- Wyndmere-Lidgerwood, Oak Grove
Region 2- Hillsboro-Central Valley,Grafton
Region 3-Carrington, Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier
Region 4- St. John, Langdon/Edmore/Munich
Region 5- Shiloh, Standing Rock
Region 6-Bishop Ryan, Rugby
Region 7- Beulah,Dickinson Trinity
Region 8-Stanley, New Town
so now we would have to reseed these 16 teams 1-16 and play it out all the way.
not that our state tourney wasn't competitive as all games i felt were good games to watch.
but i feel this would give us a even better state tourney and have all 8 teams be the best 8 teams in the state. I am all for this format or everyone plays a super regional and that would be how we get our 8. call me old school but the district tourneys are a joke IMO. you can loose and still make the state tourney, cmon that is not playoff basketball. playoff basketball means you are fighting for another game one slip up and your done. Thoughts ?????
Lavars World