High School Basketball: How many regular season games does your state play?

[Liut]

Too many.

Agreed. Season is too long.

 

[slappy4428]

20 plus three tournaments, so in theory, it could be 32 -- with only 6-8 games that count in area play...

 

[UPChip]

As Hank said, 20 games in Michigan, with no extra allowance for tournaments (most I've seen here are basically like hockey tournaments - four teams, two games per team, two days).

Boys' season starts the first full week of December and districts normally begin the second week of March.

 

[albert77]

In Mississippi, it's 24 regular-season games including one or two tournaments. Used to be a few more, but they cut it back a couple years ago. We had a team reach the state championship game this season and they played 31 total.

As a clarification, that is for schools in the MHSAA that also play football. Guys like Hejira Henry and others from up that way might know more, but I think the dozen or so small schools that don't have football are allowed to play a few more games, and they used to start in mid-October. Don't know if that's the case now.

As for the academies, they can play as many as they can schedule. The really good MAIS teams that make it to the Overall State Tournament usually end up playing about 40 games in a season.

Prep basketball season starts the first week of November and the final games at the MHSAA State Tournament are the first week in March.

 

[Mark2010]

Washington was 20. Oregon was somewhere around 30. Counting playoffs and state tournament, one team had a total of 38 games one year. Ridiculous.

 

[fossywriter8]

In Mississippi, it's 24 regular-season games including one or two tournaments. Used to be a few more, but they cut it back a couple years ago. We had a team reach the state championship game this season and they played 31 total.

To the OP, how is it 100 extra games? The two extra games won't be played on the same day. Seems like you'll just have an extra week of basketball season to deal with. I can't see how you're adding any significant amount of work to the schedule.

The 100 games would be easy for my area of northwest Ohio.
We're a small to mid-size daily and we cover 14 high schools. With boys and girls basketball, that's 28 teams, so that means 56 more games on the schedule.
A daily about a half hour down the highway to the west covers 25 high schools, giving them 100 extra games compared to how things are done now.
These will be non-league games.
By the way, the season will not be extended another week from what it is now, so you can't just add a week and play two more games.

 

[scribe77]

New York, at least this area, reduced regular-season games from 18 to 17 a few years ago. With as many as 14 conference games, does not leave much room for tournaments/non-league games.

 

[Justin Biebler]

See fossywriter's post.
They are cramming the games into the same time frame since the season isn't being expanded just the number of games. We cover 30 boys teams and 30 girls teams. That would actually by 120 more games but I'm sure some of our area schools will be scheduling one another reducing that number to around 90-100 games.
With our shrinking newshole like all newspapers, and taking preps as seriously as we do (it's all we got) I'm not sure where we're going to put the additional games. Think of it as adding about 10 percent to the winter sports workload.

 

[apeman33]

Kansas plays 20 games in any of the following combinations:
1) 20 games, no tournaments.
2) 17 games, one tournament.
3) 14 games, two tournaments.
The tournaments can't have more than three games -- unless it's a league tournament and that league has more than 8 schools, in which case "play-in" games are allowed. This makes it possible for a few schools to play 21 games but the KSHSAA would prefer this didn't happen.

An 8-team (or larger) league can't play a double-round robin league schedule AND in two tournaments. The (league the main school in our coverage area plays in) went double-round robin for the previous four years. This meant a 16-game league schedule and room for either four non-league games or one tournament and one non-league game.

The team I cover decided to keep going to the opening-week tournament in Missouri and so would have up to 11 days off in the middle of the season. Another school had to kill its own opening-week tournament because it didn't want to have the same issue with 11 straight days off in January. Also, the worst basketball teams were getting the crap beat out of them twice a year by the good teams and going into Sub-State with 3-17 records instead of getting to schedule some schools more at their level and going in maybe 10-10. Basically, double round-robin may have saved a few bucks in travel costs but it didn't do anything else good for the league.

The league went back to single round-robin this past season. Now one of the weak schools is dropping out and another one is thinking about it. If they both go, then it's a seven-team league and it could be that the league switches back to double round-robin since it would allow 12 league games, two tournaments and two other non-league games.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I'm in Mississippi, and teams here generally play 24-26 regular-season games depending on how many "Classics" and holiday tournaments they're in.

If you make it all the way to the state finals, you can play up to 33 games (two division tournament games, one first-round game, two south/north state tournament games, two state tournament games).

 

[sctvman]

South Carolina plays a lot of games. My team played 24 of them even though they didn't make the playoffs. Seven of them were tournament games though.

 

[KP]

18-22. I believe 20 is the max however you can play two extras if you play against certain teams in small leagues that need the bump.

EDIT: Sorry, this is in Massachusetts.

20 is considered the max. though in an attempt to ensure teams will play the big schools in those smaller leagues or against outer Cape/Islands teams you can add two more (at the start of the season you need to declare whether or not those games will count toward your postseason record).
because of those type of exempt schools you'll see a team play 20 games but only count 14 toward the postseason.
absolute mess.