Aside from the ludicrous assumption that a committee that covers the whole state could seed 28 brackets, boys and girls, with 200 or so teams, in seven hours, the CIF needs to reconsider their process.
If you look at the girls' D1 bracket, you see that the seven CCS teams were "seeded" so that they did not play each other in the first round, and it appears that the bracket was set so that if the seeds held, the top CCS teams would not meet in the second round. This decision made making a bracket even more difficult than it already is.
In an ideal world, the brackets would be determined by "true seeding," and if two schools from the same league played in the first round, so be it.
Obviously that was not the case, and I think the idea that the CCS teams had to be separated led to the weird seeding decisions. (Still no justification for McClatchy being 16, though ...)
On top of that, the CCS teams did not perform well. In the Los Gatos-Carondelet game, it did not appear Los Gatos was expecting Carondelet to press, but even if they had, the difference in strength and athleticism was apparent -- and Carondelet is not a particularly strong or athletic team compared to some other top teams.
In other brackets, CCS teams were upset as well, but I could be wrong about the section's overall performance. Regardless, true seeding would have helped, perhaps, in avoiding these early-round issues and creating a more competitive bracket.
I understand that no one wants to go to NorCals and play a team five miles down the road, but then again, no one wants to get blown out just to avoid a local-local game.
If you look at the girls' D1 bracket, you see that the seven CCS teams were "seeded" so that they did not play each other in the first round, and it appears that the bracket was set so that if the seeds held, the top CCS teams would not meet in the second round. This decision made making a bracket even more difficult than it already is.
In an ideal world, the brackets would be determined by "true seeding," and if two schools from the same league played in the first round, so be it.
Obviously that was not the case, and I think the idea that the CCS teams had to be separated led to the weird seeding decisions. (Still no justification for McClatchy being 16, though ...)
On top of that, the CCS teams did not perform well. In the Los Gatos-Carondelet game, it did not appear Los Gatos was expecting Carondelet to press, but even if they had, the difference in strength and athleticism was apparent -- and Carondelet is not a particularly strong or athletic team compared to some other top teams.
In other brackets, CCS teams were upset as well, but I could be wrong about the section's overall performance. Regardless, true seeding would have helped, perhaps, in avoiding these early-round issues and creating a more competitive bracket.
I understand that no one wants to go to NorCals and play a team five miles down the road, but then again, no one wants to get blown out just to avoid a local-local game.
