Tuesday, the NSAA released pairings for the Class A and B boys districts which will begin on Saturday in most locations and run through Tuesday.
Basketball has long been a source of contention on if the Nebraska state tournament should be based on geography or who are the best teams are; whatever that means.
The take, for me anyway, is fairly simple. Let’s first make the postseason a little more exciting by having one tournament. No losing with a chance to win the state championship. It would work pretty easy in Class A anyway. Our idea is below.
Class A is almost doing this right now anyway and this proposal would eliminate the silly 28-29 play-in game. It would also protect the best three teams in the class so that they would only have to play one game — ONE GAME – to advance to the state tournament.
You’d create a unique semi-state evening as well when you get to the remaining 16 teams. Our proposal would be four sites (two in Lincoln, two in Omaha) with doubleheaders at each site. For Class A boys we propose opening round games on Saturday and semi-state on Tuesday before the girls state tournament.
The other classes would take some real work, but they are certainly doable with a little discussion and creativity. We’d back fewer classes, but that shouldn’t hold us back into making Nebraska’s state tournament a feature event in our state.
Kids deserve it. Coaches deserve it. Communities deserve it.
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