Registration and Check-In                                                   7:30 a.m.

Hallway on First Floor, Bradley Hall

           

Announcements and Introductions                          8:00 a.m.

Neumiller Auditorium, Bradley Hall

 

Tournament play will be held on the First and Second Floors of Bradley Hall.  You will receive a schedule and room assignments for your team when you check in.  Please note that these are TIMED rounds and make sure your students understand that they need to report to their assigned rooms for prompt starts of each round.

 

Round One                                                                             8:15 – 8:55 a.m.

 Round Two                                                                             9:00 – 9:40 a.m.

 Round Three                                                                          9:45 – 10:25 a.m.

 Round Four                                                                            10:30 – 11:10 a.m.

 Round Five                                                                            11:15 – 11:55 a.m.

 Lunch                                                                                      11:55 – 12:25

 Eight teams will be selected to advance to the quarter final round according to the rules of advancement discussed below.

 Quarter Final Round                                                 12:30 – 1:10 p.m.

 The winning team from each of these matches will advance to the semi-final and final rounds. 

 Semi-Final Round                                                                 1:15 – 1:55 p.m.

 The winners of this round will play each other in the Championship Round; the other two teams will play each other in the Consolation Round.

 Final Round                                                                           2:00 – 2:40 p.m.

Championship Round, Neumiller Auditorium 

Location of Consolation Round TBA.

 Announcement of top four place winners                           2:50 p.m.

and All Tournament Team, Neumiller Auditorium

 

 

DIVISION PLAY AND ADVANCEMENT TO FINAL ROUNDS

 

Schools with “A” and “B” teams:

1. “B” teams will play in a division with other “B” teams.  There will be 4 divisions but the 4^th division made up of “B” teams will not participate in the tournament beyond the division competition.  “B” teams will not advance, nor will the players be eligible for All Tournament honors.   Players on a “B” team may be any players the coach designates from the school team.

 

2. Once two teams from one school are set up for the first round of division play, players may not be changed from one team to the other during division play.  If the “A” team from a school advances to the quarterfinal round, players from the “B” team are eligible to play on the school team in the final rounds.  

 

Division Play for “A” teams

The eighteen (18) “A” teams will be divided into three separate divisions of six (6) teams each. The teams will play a round-robin format in which each team will play five (5) matches.

 

Advancement to quarterfinal round:

1. The winner and the runner up of each division will advance to the quarter final round along with two wild card teams with the best records of the remaining teams.  Tie breaking rules for teams with identical records are in numbers 3 to 6 below.

 

2. The division winner with the most wins will play the wild card team of a different division with the least wins.  The division winner with the second most wins will play the other wild card team unless of same division.  In that case the opponent will be the runner up of a different division with the least wins.  The third division winner will play the remaining wild card team if not already slotted and if not in the same division.  Otherwise the opponent will be the runner up from another division with the least wins.  The remaining two teams will play each other.

 

3. If two teams are tied with identical records in a division, the head-to-head result in division play will break the tie, and determine advancement and match ups.

 

4. If three or more teams are tied with identical records in a division, the total points scored in division play will be used to break the tie, and determine advancement or matchups.

 

5.  If two or more teams are tied with identical records in different divisions, then total points scored in division play will be used in determining advancement or match ups,

 

6. If the above methods cannot break a tie between three or more teams, teams will be drawn by lot to determine advancement or placement.

 

Advancement to semifinal round:

1. The teams that win in the quarter final round will advance to the semifinal round.

 

2. The team with the most wins in division play will play the team with the least wins in division play.  The other two teams will play each other.  If teams have the same number of wins, then total points in division play will be used.

 

Advancement to championship round:

1. The winning teams in the semifinal round will play for the championship and second place.

 

2. The losing teams in the semifinal round will play for third and fourth place.