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I can see where you were misled. Try this:


IV) District Tournament Seeding Regulations

A) For district tournaments with three teams, the district tournament shall be seeded in accordance with the following three-team seeding regulations:



1) Each team in a three-team district is required to play the other two teams in the district in two contests each year, at mutually agreed sites. These games will produce a uniform means of ranking the teams by seed within these districts.

2) The team with the highest seed (one seed) receives a bye in the district tournament, and advances to the championship game.

3) The remaining two teams would play in the first round of the district tournament with the loser of that game being eliminated.

4) In the case of a two-way tie for the district winning position, the winner in the second game played between the tied district opponents would have the higher finishing position.



Here is info on four or more:
B) For district tournaments with four or more teams, the district tournament brackets may be drawn by random

lot or placed into the bracket using a seeding system. A majority vote (recorded in writing) of the Principals,

Athletic Directors and/or Designated Representatives of the schools in the district is required in order to make

or change seeding decisions. In the absence of any documentation, minutes or other verification, the districts

shall not be seeded. The regulations concerning the seeding of a district with four or more teams are as follows:



1) The decision to seed and the method used in seeding (including all tie-breakers) shall be determined by majority

vote of the participating teams in the district and the manager shall record this vote in writing and submit it to

the Association. The representatives making the written declaration shall decide all issues related to seeding,

2) Seeding methods shall be determined prior to the start of the regular season, recorded in writing with a copy

provided to the KHSAA, and shall remain in place until a majority vote of the participating schools rescinds or

changes the seeding decisions. Such changes to the district seeding plan may not be made for the current

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year once play has begun in the regular season.

3) In the event of dispute, the current copy on file with the KHSAA shall prevail in determining resolution.

4) Seeding plans may, at the discretion of the majority vote of the schools, stipulate a particular team to a

particular seeded position.

5) It shall be the district tournament manager’s responsibility to update the Association with respect to

any changes to the seeding decision or method being used and any relevant tiebreakers. In the absence of

this documentation, consultation with, and written verification and documentation from, prior year

tournament managers, will be utilized by staff to assist with interpretation and clarification.

6) There is no statewide regulation on a seeding method once the determination has been made to seed. Some of

the more common and recommended means of seeding is the record of games played within a district provided

all teams have played all other teams. In that case, each district shall adopt tie-breaking procedures in the event

that the primary method of seeding results in a tie or other situations arise which cause an alteration in the

scheduled seeding method. Among the more common tie-breaking methods are 1) seeding by overall win-loss

record; seeding by win-loss record in specific contests, 3) seeding by a rating/ranking from a statewide poll, 3)

seeding by a majority vote, 4) seeding by a committee, and 5) seeding by a rating turned in by each school.

7) If win-loss records are used for seeding, the records used shall be the records as of the date

of the pre-tournament meeting as published on the KHSAA memorandum calendar. Teams and school

representatives may meet during the regular season to discuss tournament operations (i.e. dates, times,

sites, tournament personnel needs, etc.). However if an organizational meeting is held prior to the published date

on the calendar, no discussions may be held regarding the bracketing or pairings of specific teams unless all

mandated seeded games have been played prior to the meeting. Games played after the published meeting date

SHALL NOT factor into the seeded position.

Yet I am not misled...As I had stated before, it is determined by point differential in head to head play. The rules just stated that the #1 seed would get a bye and it never said how the #1 seed would be determined.