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A change in the format of the Central Coast Section Open Division basketball playoffs has been passed and will go into effect this season.
The eight teams in the boys and girls Open Divisions will be placed into two pool play brackets.The Nos. 1, 4, 5 and 8 seeds in Pool A and the 2, 3, 6 and 7 seeds in Pool B.
All teams will be guaranteed three games against the other three teams in their pool play division. Those games will take place on Friday Feb. 18, Monday Feb. 21 and Wednesday Feb. 23.
The winners of each division will play for the CCS Open Division championship on Friday, Feb. 25, at Kaiser Arena in Santa Cruz.
Head to head results would be used to break a two-way tie. If three teams in a division go 2-1 and one team 0-3, the team with the lowest combined seed points from games they won in pool play will advance.
The new format does away with the unpopular consolation round, which coaches didn’t like and the general public tended to ignore.
In the past a good but not great public school team would be drafted into the Open to fill out the bracket as a No. 8 seed, get blasted in the opening round by a No. 1 seed, and then have to play a consolation round game before moving on to NorCals.
“I like it, I think it’s a good idea,” Palo Alto girls basketball coach Scott Peters said.
