I have gripe about Distirct play. Under this years format the games are supposed to be played at the home gym of the highest seeded team. We were seeded 4th so we play the 5th seeded team. But since our gym does not have a large enough capacity we have to travel 2 hours. With covid restrictions what difference does that make. Seems like the system is flawed. Even if we were no. 1, we would have to travel. Does anyone agree or disagree?
District games
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Smaller gyms mean even fewer fans can attend if they make any attempt at social distancing. I have never thought is was fair to keep a team from having their turn to host districts because of the gym size, assuming that school wants to host, but it's been that way forever in the semo area, not just during the pandemic.
The “host” listed on mshsaa website is the school that is responsible for organizing the seeds, rosters, draft officials, etc. My under is the better seed will host so 1 host 4 and 2 host 3.
But not always. Cainsville (half of the East Harrison co-op with Ridgeway) wasn't allowed to host a boys first round game because of issues with their gym. (Tile floor, bleachers too close to the sides, limited capacity.) EH is the 3 seed in Class 1 District 14; they play 6 seed Tri-County (Jamesport) in the first round, but I've been told that the game will be played at Jamesport instead.
The whole thing with travel and Rona is garbage. Teams have been traveling all season. And playing in tournaments hosted by one school/location. It’s insane the amount of overthinking and complications have been added for no reason. I’d love to hear the argument for district tourneys being handled this way. When making the argument, please don’t discount how things have been done all season.
The main reason is so that they don't have multiple fan bases at a single site. (And yes, that has been done at tournaments, but districts tend to have more fans than tournaments)
I actually think the higher seed should get home games all the way until the Final 4. Why is it done otherwise?
There is no 'higher seed' in anything after districts and as far as I know everything after districts is played at a neutral site.
Ridgeway had one before they had to close the gym there. Jameson and Coffey (before North Daviess co-op) had them. Newtown-Harris had a tile floor in the gym at Newtown. Newtown and Jameson now have some kind of weird floor mat-like deal on their floors. Newtown-Harris (now in a co-op with Grundy R-5 (Galt) still gets one home game per season there so they have a true "home" homecoming.
Teams will host all the way to the final 4. There will be a formula like football to determine who hosts in the event that both teams have hosted an equal number of games.
Ravanna (closed school in 1977) did. West Putnam (elementary school east of Powersville in western Putnam County; can't remember when it closed) had one. Spickard (used to be K-12, now K-6) has one.
Pretty sure Stet had one too. At least I think it was tile. The benches were rubber coated wire grates on cinder blocks. And you couldn’t sit on them and not be on the court. The bleachers were metal portable bleachers. Two sets. It was the darnedest environment I’ve ever been in.
Oh lord no. You could press full court with a 1/2 court 1-3-1. It was 65' baseline to baseline at the longest.
Interesting district thoughts here I hadn't heard of
spectator requirements
looking at "local" regulations
who has hosted less games this season
good be a nightmare
www.stltoday.com
I also think this move to quarterfinals at high school locations will continue, it's been a cost saving push for several years and can now become a reality
spectator requirements
looking at "local" regulations
who has hosted less games this season
good be a nightmare
Boys basketball notebook: Missouri postseason takes on a different look amid pandemic; U. City, Summit into quarantine
Postseason basketball is back, and like a lot of things it’s going to look different than it did in the past.
I also think this move to quarterfinals at high school locations will continue, it's been a cost saving push for several years and can now become a reality
When Jameson was still a power when they had Frank Wheeler and those other athletes, Mercer had pretty salty teams but when they played at Jameson, that 1-3-1 press just took Mercer to the woodshed - like it did a lot of other teams back then.
If I remerber correctly, Stet put in the same surface that MU had at Hearnes when it opened. I think Chillicothe had that for a while as well. When the 3-pt arc was put in, there was no way to shoot one from the corner.
I don't see how most high school gyms will hold anywhere near the number of fans that would like to be there. I get the covid thang but if they try any kind social distancing that just means even less fans can attend the biggest games some of their teams ever get to play in. What I never thought was fair was when P.B., or any team from the semo area had to travel to north St. Louis to play a team that had to travel about 25 miles for a quarter final game.Interesting district thoughts here I hadn't heard of
spectator requirements
looking at "local" regulations
who has hosted less games this season
good be a nightmare
Boys basketball notebook: Missouri postseason takes on a different look amid pandemic; U. City, Summit into quarantine
Postseason basketball is back, and like a lot of things it’s going to look different than it did in the past.
I also think this move to quarterfinals at high school locations will continue, it's been a cost saving push for several years and can now become a reality
Monroe City had to play in Blue Springs against a KC team last year and still had about 4-5 times as many fans.
P.B. most likely had more fans at UMSL than the St.Louis team they played too. But the team still had to ride a bus for hours, and the fans had to drive or spend the night, while the other team and their fans rode about 30 minutes. P.B. boys and girls teams came out on top many times over the years playing there when they got that far but it was a crazy set up none the less.
I hadn't been in Cainsville's gym for several years before Friday night (Mercer at East Harrison). They're going to have to start hoarding some money to replace the floor because it's starting to get bad. Hopefully they can squirrel away enough money for a wood floor someday.
Newtown-Harris has been a district "host" in the past, but all the games were played at NCMC.
Maybe they need and 'accidental' water leak so they can't get some insurance money to replace the floor. 😘
They might have done that over there once several years ago, if memory serves. But regardless of the reason they replaced that tile floor, they replaced it with another tile floor.
we traveled about an hour and 50 minutes for our district game. we won by 19 but it was closer than the score indicated. our next game is about 20 miles, however, Van-Far has to go to New Haven which is about 70 miles. This whole district situation makes no sense to me.
Are the host schools able to livestream games or is MSHSAA wanting someone to pay $20 to watch the game online so they can still make money?
Poplar Bluff and Jackson are about 90 miles apart, the other teams in their district are Seckman and Northwest which is well over 100 miles. Just no other schools in our class in the semo area. I sure did like it better when we had 4 classes.
It is hardship on the schools, players, and fans. Whoever makes these things up did not take these things in consideration. I know it would never happen but to make it some what fair they should play in a neutral site. Again, That would never happen. Too much work and expense.
Would work pretty well for the district PB is in to have em all meet at Farmington and play. Pretty equal travel at least, but I'm sure the cost to play at the Civic Center there would be costly.
$10 a game which is ridiculous. I can understand paying for the Final Four which are decent quality broadcasts, but most of these $10 games are just video and not high quality. Let the schools stream until the state games.
