It appears that everyone is talking about where the championship rounds of the (MHSAA) basketball tournaments should be played.
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This is no criticism of KPI Rankings per se . . . but it’s not the right thing to do for our statewide high school basketball tournaments.
Well-intentioned people have unrealistic expectations about this. They don't appreciate the amount of resources the MHSAA would have to put into making this thing fly.
Seeding is such an imperfect art . . . that it is more of a publicity stunt than it is a science on which to structure a tournament.
The fact that there was no seeding proposal even considered by the MHSAA Basketball Committee this year is indicative of two facts . . .
It wasn’t a bad call in Michigan that caused MSU’s loss in Mississippi. It wasn’t even a tough call for us; it was the only call.
This is not really school-sponsored, educational athletics. It’s becoming a recruiting service.
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