MOUNTAIN
CHRISTIAN
LEAGUE
2024 MCL JH Basketball Tournament
at The Oaks Classical Christian Academy
and Valley Christian School
Friday, April 5th & 6th
Tournament Locations:
The Oaks Gym - 2303 S Bowdish Rd, Spokane, WA 99206
Valley Christian School - 10212 E 9th Ave, Spokane Valley, WA 99206
Tournament Design:
Boys
There are three four team pools, two A-team and one B team. The top two teams in each A-Pool will advance to the Gold Bracket to play on Saturday for the tournament trophy. The bottom two in each A bracket will drop down to the Silver Bracket and will be seeded 1-4 based on their pool play performance. The B pool will be seeded 5-8 in the Silver Bracket based on their pool play performance. Those eight teams will play at Valley Christian School on Saturday in a single elimination 8 team bracket. No trophy, just a chance to finish at the top of the Silver bracket.
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Girls
There are two pools of four. The top two teams from each pool will play at The Oaks on Saturday in a Gold Bracket for the championship trophy. The bottom two teams from each pool will play in the Silver Bracket on Saturday in the practice gym at Valley Christian School. This will be a single elimination tournament.
Game Structure
The 3rd Place games and the Championship games of the two gold brackets will be played as full games, just as were played during the regular season.​
All pool play games and many of the games on Saturday, will be played as follows:
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10 Minute warm ups between games. The warm-up clock will start immediately after the two teams who just finished shake hands.
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Two 10 minute halves.
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Two 30 second and one full time out per game.
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Half-Time is 4 minutes in length.
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Overtime is 2 minutes.
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Each team begins shooting two free throws at seven fouls per half. Resets in second half.
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A player fouls out at 4 fouls (not 5).
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Tie Break Procedures:
Seeding in Saturday's tournament will be determined by:
1. Pool play record
2. Head to Head
3. Point differential among the tied three teams
4. Coin flip