if you looked at other states and their touney formats, you could come up with a better state tourney. There is no reason why two teams in the same district must play each other 4-5 times just to get to the state. In my opinion the best basketball is usually played in the region tourney, when the best basketball should be in the state. I hate going to a state tourney game and watching a 20 plus blowout, when those teams should have been eliminated earlier. The downfall of this format (which is used in TX) would be the amount of travel and some would complain that the possibility of having 4 teams from the same district make it to the state tourney. Which, If these teams are the best then they should go and this would allow different teams and districts competing against each other every year instead of having to play the same ole people 4 to 5 times a year, or see the same ole other district in your region. It would be interesting to see the number 4 seed of district 1 play the 1 seed of district 2, 3 seed of district 1 play 2 seed of district 4, and so on. Take these teams after their districts and let em play all over the state, and let the survivors come to the state tourney. I guess we have to appease everyone by allowing so many teams from the east, middle, and west. But it sure makes for some ugly state tourney games.