Drawing ping pong balls to see who play who? I'm sorry, but that's just STUPID. As someone noted above, completely negates the regular season.

Drawing ping pong balls to see who play who? I'm sorry, but that's just STUPID. As someone noted above, completely negates the regular season.

 

I agree that drawing ping-pong balls isn't a great method, but most of the Indiana teams play conference opponents during the year, which almost always consists of teams not in their district/region. So unless you went with some type of power rating system, you really have no way of seeding the districts in Indiana.

Indiana is basically a rectangle with Indianapolis sitting in the middle of a more populated state with several really big and several really small schools.. The rest are in the middle in size. Think of spokes radiating from Indy and that makes 4 areas of competition before funneling back to Indy for the finals. The "ping pong balls" is a simplification. Conference championships are a big deal as are the all sports trophies and the boys sports and girls sports trophies within conferences.. There are 9 regular season games and one guaranteed playoff game so everyone plays 10. Travel time is not the problem in Indiana. Kentucky is not like Indiana.