State Tournament Seeding Procedures

The MSHSSCA feels strongly that all seeding at the Section and State Tournament levels should take place with coaches in a face-to-face meeting and should follow the procedures below:

Seeding Procedure

1. The State Tournament seeding meeting will take place on the same Sunday as the State Tournament/All State Banquet. The meeting will be held at the same site as the banquet. Meeting time will be at 11:00 a.m.
2. A voting member of the MSHSSCA Board of Directors whose team or school is not in the tournament will facilitate the meeting.
3. The head coach will represent each team. If the head coach cannot attend, an assistant or school representative may attend and vote in his/her place. Schools not present at the seeding meeting forfeit their right to vote on the seeding.
4. Each team (whether it is in attendance at the seeding meeting or not) must provide 10 copies of a season summary that includes the date, location and scores of all games played and overall and conference won-loss-tie records up to date.
5. Each team representative will have two minutes to give an oral presentation on his or her team before the ranking takes place.
6. Each coach will rank teams 1-7. (The coach will not include his/her own team in this ranking.)
7. Rankings are due 10 minutes after the last team presentation is due.
8. Rankings are posted as tabulated for all coaches to see.
9. Rankings are totaled with the highest and lowest scores thrown out. Lowest total is Number 1 seed, etc.
10. The tie-breaking procedure given below will be used if needed:
    
    *If two (2) or more schools are tied in the ranking by the coaches, the following method of breaking ties will be used.
    
    (A) Each team that is tied will have one minute to present its case.
    (B) All other coaches re-vote on the tied teams. (Those coaches whose teams are tied do not vote.)
    (C) Highest ranked team receives the highest seed; next highest ranking; the next highest seed, etc

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