[bobcatpride1]

I’ve said it for years. You have about 4 teams in each class who can actually compete at a high level, most times less than 4. I’m afraid that no system will drastically change this scenario unless you had fewer classes, and we all know that will not happen in the foreseeable future.

Other than dropping a class the next viable option to prevent this would be to seed every single round based on the RPI. You had several districts this year that had multiple top ten teams in them, but because of this format only one of those teams advanced to the third round. CAL, DeSales, and Mercer County is a great example of this. Unfortunately we could not implement this system due to travel time and things of that nature. It is what it is. Hopefully this round and the next will provide more excitement.