[nemo]

What do you guys think about playing 8 sectional games for the boys and girls basketball tournaments, just like soccer, volleyball, baseball and softball.  Once those sectional's are played the 8 girls winners and the 8 boys winners go to Rupp for a combined Single Boy/Girl Sweet 16, switch the games boy/girl and play through the tournament it'd give the girls participants the opportunity exposure to a much larger crowd,  also cut down on the tournament cost. The girls attendance has been low, especially when you have 2 all girls private schools playing for the championship, which happens more often than not these days. I love the way it is now, but times are changing and I don't think it can stay they way it is with the economic impact that's happening in most of the state,
go look at the past winners in all sports so many more champs in urban/private schools vs rural schools winning it all. 

Just fodder for thought on a boring snow day....

I like your thinking "outside of the box" on the boys/girls combined Sweet 16, but after a century of precedent I don't think you'll convince many that half of the Regional champions don't get to make the trip to Lexington.

There have been 58 Girls State Basketball Tournaments and there has never been a single championship game involving two all girls private schools.

If one looks at the KHSAA website and sees only the "State Team Title Composite Records" it's easy to draw the wrong conclusions. There's a simple reason urban and private schools have won more championships - they've been playing those sports 10-20-30 years before the KHSAA even sanctions a State Tournament for them. Add another decade or two before enough of our rural schools in an area start teams and can be grouped into a Region, and well, there's just no "catching up."