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2018 Indiana High School Basketball State Tournament: Regional Preview

Regional Saturday is one of my favorite days of the year. It is one of the last excellent holdovers from the old one-class state tournament because it involves each regional champion having to survive two games in a single day about 8 hours apart. It makes the Big Ten Tournament with the compressed schedule look like a cakewalk. If you have the second morning session game and go an overtime or two you can finish up around 2:30 and have to be back on the court by 8pm to play again in order to advance. This survival of the fittest is the best round because 64 teams enter and only 16 leave in a span of about 12 hours.