In the Holmes/Ludlow results thread, the conversation got started about how the District to Regional progression works.

 

Do I have this correct:

 

Winner of a District plays a District Runner up

Runner up of a District plays a Winner of a District

 

It was mentioned that it is a blind draw once to Regionals. Is that ok with people, or does that cause controversy over people wanting them to be seeded?

 

Sorry for the dumb question if it is a dumb question, but as the phrase goes: "you aren't from around here are you?"... ha ha

Yes, that is correct. Some districts are seeded, some aren't. My understanding is that regional draws have district winners vs. district runnerups; with the proviso that the regional is structured in such a way that two teams from the district can't meet until the regional final.

 

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

From the KHSAA Handbook:

 

C) Region.

1) The Regional meeting shall be held on Sunday afternoon

immediately following the district tournaments at 2:00 local

time in the school designated as the host. These meetings may

be held earlier by mutual agreement of all teams, but not prior

to the completion of all district tournament games.

2) The pairings for the regional tournament shall be made in

accordance to the following procedure.

a) In a regional tournament with participants from four districts,

the district winners will draw for positions 1, 3, 5 and 7 in a

standard eight-team bracket. Each corresponding runner-up

team will draw for a position in the opposite bracket.

b) In a regional tournament with participants from three

districts, the draw shall be conducted as follows. The format

will follow a standard eight-team bracket with two byes,

those falling into positions 2 and 7. The district winners

shall draw for positions 1 and 8 in the bracket. The district

winner not drawing a bye shall draw for a position in slots

3 through 6. The district runner-up to the district champion

drawing for position in slots 3 through 6 will draw into one

of the two remaining slots in the bracket opposite the district

winner, and the remaining two runner-up teams will be placed

opposite their corresponding district winners in the remaining

two slots in the bracket.

c) In a regional tournament with participants from two districts,

the draw shall be conducted as follows. The district winners

will draw for positions 1 and 3 in a standard four-team

bracket. Each corresponding runner-up team will be placed in

the position in the opposite bracket from the district winner.

3) The winner of each regional tournament shall advance to the

state tournament.

D) State. The Commissioner shall conduct a blind draw to determine

the pairings for each state tournament, to be conducted no later

than the last Friday in February. The Commissioner shall ensure

I guess I still don't understand why if teams that don't want to seed in the district and use the excuse that the KHSAA doesn't seed in the Regions or Sweet Sixteen, then why not just have one team move on to the Region (out of the district), like only one teams moves on to the Sweet Sixteen? :confused: Seems if you use the we don't seed in the Region and the Sweet Sixteen, then you would agree that only one team moves on, like only one team moves on to the Sweet Sixteen and of course we have only one State Champion!

I guess I still don't understand why if teams that don't want to seed in the district and use the excuse that the KHSAA doesn't seed in the Regions or Sweet Sixteen, then why not just have one team move on to the Region (out of the district), like only one teams moves on to the Sweet Sixteen? :confused: Seems if you use the we don't seed in the Region and the Sweet Sixteen, then you would agree that only one team moves on, like only one team moves on to the Sweet Sixteen and of course we have only one State Champion!

 

Thanks for the info and research.....it seems so confusing and so complicated when it should be standard and clear..... :confused: