WIAA Board of Control Approves Recomendations
Friday, June 22nd, 2012 -- 6:43 AM
The WIAA Board of Control approved a few winter sports coaches? recommendations that affect the season regulations to be in effect for the upcoming basketball season at its June meeting yesterday.The first removes a restriction that limited a school program to 20 games if it chose to play an opponent in a state that does not border Wisconsin. All schools will now be allowed to schedule the maximum 22 games, which includes the games of one tournament or competition in a non-bordering state.
The Board also supported a pair of basketball recommendations impacting the Tournament Series. Placement of schools in the tournament will be modified slightly to assure that no more than 128 teams are placed in Division 5 to avoid adding another entry-level round of games in that bracket.
In addition, the Board gave its approval of a plan to avoid scheduling a Division 4 school?s boys and girls teams on the same Thursday night when one is playing in the State Tournament and the other is playing at the sectional level. In these infrequent cases where both the boys and girls teams are scheduled to play simultaneously, the sectional game must be played on Wednesday night.
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