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

Not uncommon for school's in Arkansas to have 30-plus games. Not every school has football here so the schools that don't start playing each other in October. Then you can play in three tournaments. Conference games are anywhere from 12-18 games depending on the classification and conference size.

 

I think it's officially 24 here, but Thanksgiving and Christmas tournaments don't fully count which takes it up to 26-27. The state also allows teams to play two "Hall of Fame" games at the start of the season which do not count toward your total at all as long as you send the gate money to the state. You can count them toward your record or not as you choose, which is a complete joke. We've had schools say "We won the first one so we count it in our record, but lost the second so we don't count it."

As for the total, a team that won the state championship a few years back went 39-0.

 

Oregon is 24-26 depending on nonleague tournaments and such.

 

Wyoming is 20, but there are allowances for tournaments, etc., that could get a team to 21 or 22 in the regular season.

 

Too damn many.

 

Same in this area of the state. With budgets being slashed, soon it will just be the league games being played. In fact, we have a county tournament during Christmas break (our coverage area is split into two sections), and they recently changed the format so the opening round games count as league games to save on costs.

 

Kentucky practice starts Oct. 15 and games begin the Monday after Thanksgiving. Regular season runs through the end of February in most years.

http://www.khsaa.org/handbook/bylaws/bylaw25bysport/bl25bk.pdf

d) The season shall consist of a maximum of twenty-three (23) games to be played prior to the beginning of KHSAA state
championship competition (district).
A maximum of two (2) tournaments may be included in any manner other than counting each game played against the limit of twenty-three (23) games.
Any two tournaments played during the regular season may be counted as one game per tournament against the limit of twenty-three (23) provided that neither tournament necessitates the team playing more than four (4) games.
Any game played over the limit of four in any one tournament shall be counted against the limit of twenty-three (23) games.

 

I don't know if there's a rule limiting games in Louisiana. It's routine to see teams get into the low-to-mid 30s in regular-season games, especially if they get in four tournaments, which I think is the max (not sure on that).

There are two classes for small schools that don't have football and those classes can actually start playing about a month sooner than the football schools, sometime in October. In rural West-Central Louisiana, which is like a little pocket of Indiana (one player from there, Kyle Hornsby, actually did wind up at IU), it's not unusual to see programs that will push 45-50 games in a regular season.

Not coincidentally, if you look at the high school record books, you'll see a lot of Louisiana players among the nation's all-time leading scorers. There was a guy named Greg Procell (not sure if I'm getting the last name right, going off memory) who played at one of these rural schools who held the national career scoring record. Of course, he played in close to 300 games because not only did he play 50 games a year, because his tiny school was k-12, he was playing on high school varsity in seventh grade or so.

One player who played at one of these schools was Karl Malone, who went to a tiny school near the Arkansas state line.

Edit to add: Procell's records were broken by Tweety Carter, who scored 7,457 points as a six-year letterman at tiny Reserve Christian High outside of New Orleans. Before it shut down, that school played in Class C, which is the smallest enrollment class in the state, the smaller of the two non-football classes. Carter went on to play on Baylor's Elite 8 team.

 

It's 20 in Indiana