Shortening The Season

[HoopsTournament]

Well, in AR the conferences are based on class. Class 7A West, or Class 4A Region 3 etc.

Stupidest thing I have ever heard.

 

[Majost]

NO!

Leave it alone!

My God some schools in Texas and Arkansas and other southern states play up to 40 games in a high school basketball season.

It'll mess up all the historical stats, etc.

You are right on this. The do play more like 35-40 games. And you know when Texas started their first round games. This past monday. So they play more games and they start districts earlier than our bigger schools do. Funny how people who are calling for the same amount of games but in a shorter time are being labeled as soft? lol. I mean if you want to go there and label people "soft", I would say the people who can't handle that many games in a shorter period of time as being the soft ones.

 

[msubearssuperfan1]

If you're talking about the same number of games, then I'm okay with it.

 

[TJ_DUB]

We ain't in Arkansas. In Arkansas you have to beat somebody about 3 times to get them out of the playoffs. If term pulls off an upset in their district the team they beat gets another shot at it, or if the top team wins they under dog gets another at them. Very strange system they have.

They would have to totally reconstruct the conferences around here to do the district tournament like you're talking about.
In the MAAA conference they have a large and small school regular season title.

Same for Jefferson County Conference (JCAA), in terms of large and small school divisions.

 

[wahoolives]

How would you seed your district based on what were conference games when you have class 3,4 and 5 teams in your conference? That's what the SEMO conference has and more often than not it's NOT the class 5 schools that win the conference.

In Arkansas what they call conferences are like Missouri's districts in that they are set by the state and the seeding of the tournament is based on the regular season games where you play a home and home with all the teams in your conference. Essentially that would be the end of conference affiliation in Missouri like we know it. Arkansas also has multiple teams advance in the playoffs instead of one winner from each district.

 

[HoopsTournament]

Same for Jefferson County Conference (JCAA), in terms of large and small school divisions.

GRC is similar. It is not large and small, but East has mostly larger schools and West mostly smaller.

 

[3Rfan]

In Arkansas what they call conferences are like Missouri's districts in that they are set by the state and the seeding of the tournament is based on the regular season games where you play a home and home with all the teams in your conference. Essentially that would be the end of conference affiliation in Missouri like we know it. Arkansas also has multiple teams advance in the playoffs instead of one winner from each district.

Poplar Bluff and Jackson are the only class 5 schools for over a hundred miles, wouldn't that be fun to set up a home and home for the conference schedule every year with teams in or just south of St.Louis. P.B. travels that far to play some games but it is to play people you don't see all the time, not to play conference games.