Berk’s Big, Bad Hypothetical All-Class State Tournament
We’re pretty much at the half-way point of the 2018 high school volleyball season (where does time go) and some of the top teams in the state are starting to separate themselves from the pack. In the past, we’ve had…
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Continue ReadingWe’re pretty much at the half-way point of the 2018 high school volleyball season (where does time go) and some of the top teams in the state are starting to separate themselves from the pack.
In the past, we’ve had an all-class top 25 rankings. This year, however, we are changing it up a little.
We all know that the six classes in Nebraska are designed to keep schools of the same size is the same competitive circle. However, that doesn’t always mean competition is even without those circles, just the size of the school.
Last week, I hypothesized what it might look like if there was one 16-team, single-elimination bracket for the top teams in the state regardless of class to truly determine who the best squad in the state is.
This week, I’m changing it up a little bit again since, you know, it’s all hypothetical anyway. What if you brought together the top 32 teams from all classes for a state tournament, with there being eight pools of four teams each with the winner of each pool advancing to an eight-team, single-elimination bracket?
Now, I’m not advocating for this and it would never happen even if I were, but it sure would is fun to think about. So, if I were a one-man selection committee in charge of putting it all together, here is what I think it would look like as of today.
There would be no reseeding. The pool number correlates to the seed a team would get at the eight-team bracket.
(overall seed)/team/record/class
Pool 1
(1) Millard North (19-1) Class A
(16) Stanton (15-1) Class C-2
(17) Millard South (8-8) Class A
(32) Humphrey-Lindsay HF (14-0) Class D-1
Pool 2
(2) Lincoln Pius X (16-2) Class A
(15) Hastings (15-1) Class B
(18) Omaha Marian (9-5) Class A
(31) Ogallala (12-6) Class C-1
Pool 3
(3) Skutt Catholic (11-3) Class B
(14) St. Paul (18-1) Class C-1
(19) Grand Island CC (14-3) Class C-1
(30) Ewing (17-0) Class D-2
Pool 4
(4) Elkhorn South (15-4) Class B
(13) Archbishop Bergan (17-2) Class D-1
(20) Omaha Concordia (8-8) Class C-1
(29) Johnson-Brock (12-2) Class D-1
Pool 5
(5) Omaha Duchesne (18-2) Class B
(12) Bishop Neumann (13-1) Class C-1
(21) Lincoln Southwest (9-7) Class A
(28) BDS (12-1) Class D-2
Pool 6
(6) Wahoo (12-1) Class C-1
(11) Papillion-LaVista South (13-9) Class A
(22) Waverly (13-4) Class B
(27) Alliance (10-2) Class B
Pool 7
(7) Millard West (12-6) Class A
(10) Papillion-LaVista (15-6) Class A
(23) Blue Hill (13-2) Class C-2
(26) Lincoln Southeast (9-7) Class A
Pool 8
(8) Gretna (13-3) Class A
(9) Lincoln Lutheran (17-1) Class C-1
(24) Norris (14-9) Class B
(25) Syracuse (12-1) Class C-1