Intramural Madness: 180 to 7

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

The 2007 intramural basketball tournaments officially began Sunday and feature 180 men’s and women’s teams that have been placed into seven different brackets. Every team got to play three pool play games before the seeding meeting that was held last Friday night at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The teams with the best records were given first choice of when and who they wished to play through a lottery system, while the less successful teams were given the later picks.

The men’s open recreational tournament includes 55 teams, the most of any of the seven brackets. Next are the men’s greek tournament, which features 36 squads, and the co-recreational and men’s open competitive tournaments, which have 33 and 32 teams, respectively. Ten teams are playing in the women’s open tournament, eight are competing in the men’s residential hall tournament, and six teams have been placed in the women’s greek tournament. Last Sunday’s play began with several play-in games in the bigger brackets.

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By winning one of these games, a team would earn the chance to play in the second round against a team that had received a first-round bye and therefore had been given exemption from having to play an extra game. While most teams that were given the chance opted to have a first-round bye, other teams decided to play in the first round, with hopes of getting to play an extra game in the tournament.

Damon Lang, Oskaloosa freshman, played on the men’s open recreational Team 2 Legit 2 Quit, which fell 55-45 to Off in the Woods in the first round of play.

“We played pretty well, they were just bigger than we were,” Lang said. “We just couldn’t come out with the win. Overall, playing intramural basketball was a pretty good experience.”

Most teams were scheduled to play their first games this week, but many others have to wait until as late as March 11 before playing their first tournament games. As tournament play continues, teams may be forced to play games every other day, and some teams that keep on winning face the possibility of playing two games in a single night.

Nearly all of the rules are the same for the intramural basketball tournaments, but there are a few exceptions. Unlike regular season play, if a game is tied at the end of regulation, then a two-minute overtime will be played. Also, any team receiving two technical fouls during a game will automatically be forced to forfeit the game.

The venue for the championship game of each tournament changes, and the two top teams in each division earn the right to play their final games in historic Allen Fieldhouse.

Kansan sportswriter Scott Toland can be contacted at stoland@kansan.com.

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