Basketball adjustments top CHSAA Legislative Council meeting

BY STEVE SMITH SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

AURORA - e second of two decision-making meetings from the Colorado High School Activities Association’s legislative council gures to include a lot of talk about basketball, softball rosters and classi cation alignments.

e meeting begins at 9 a.m. April 18, at the Douglas County School District Legacy Campus, 10035 S. Peoria St., Lone Tree.

Basketball High-school basketball added an extra classi cation this season. It also meant stu ng three classi cations of state playo games into the Denver Coliseum over the span of two weeks last month. e result was 8:45 a.m. start times on some occasions and 9 p.m. nightcap games as well. Some games took place on school days.

e Continental League is proposing to allow class 6A teams (the schools with the highest enroll- ments) the chance to move playo games - starting in the quarternal round - to the schools with the highest seed. If approved, the schools could play the games on Friday nights or Saturdays. Or, if the school doesn’t meet capacity requirements, they would have to choose and organize an o -site location. e agenda said the current socalled “Great 8” schedule put too many games in the Coliseum over those three days.

“ ese 24 games put CHSAA in di cult situations with schools and communities,” the council’s agenda said “With 6A opting out of the Coliseum games, it will open up time and space for games to be more appropriately scheduled.” ose in favor say it cuts down the number of morning and mid-day games on school days, and it means less time out of class for the athletes and students who are in attendance.