[OrangenowBlue]

I know everyone but me loves the seeding of the districts for tournament, but this is one of the situation for why I hate it. KCC and LCC should NEVER be playing Cordia and Jenkins in the first place. Neither team gains anything from it. The district is seeded, so KCC and LCC are stuck playing Cordia and Jenkins twice each. Then they have to decide how to handle it. Do you just waste four games? If they play to their game, everyone pounds on them and calls them classless and says they should be ashame and should be watching out for Karma. Well, why should the starters have to sit on the bench four games out of their season just because the powers that be want to seed the district. When you expect them not to play those four games you are punishing them for being some of the top athletes in the district. Now, you would say what do they care, the team will win anyway. Some of those kids are going for individual honors as well. They are trying to get colleges to look at them and those colleges look at their game averages in shootings, rebounds, assists and steals. When they sit out four games and don't get their normal stats it affects those averages. In addition to that, some players are trying for those 1000 point and 2000 point marks or even trying to break school records in shooting, rebounds etc. Missing those four games a year makes that really hard to reach. I don't like seeding and I think if they are going to make this big schools play schools that can't compete no one has a right to complain when the big school puts a spanking on them.

I think this is where me and you rarely disagree. I absolutely hate games like this but if you don't seed, you could have one of these teams that are not deserving and absolutely horrible, going to the regional tournament while a much deserving team, who may have won 20 games that season, sitting at home watching the "bad" team lose by 50 in a game they could have won. If a team is mediocre or just plain horrible in the regular season, they are the same in the tournament. You do not need to reward teams for being bad. That is what "blind draws" does. You can use other ways to seed, but I absolutely deplore seeding by using Cantrell ratings. It wouldn't be that big of a deal in the 53rd(boys and girls) due the discrepency between the top two and the bottom two, but I think in the 54th where you have three of the top teams, anything other than seeding is a farce