Comments on: Punahou edges ‘Iolani 45-40 for ILH title

By: Public School

Public School — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:34:51 +0000

If Iolani didn’t have to play so many games, they would have taken the ILH championship. Punahou was just lucky that they drew the best card in the 3-way tie. The ILH scheduling is flawed. And they wa they had their tournament? Too many games. You ain’t helping your schools any heading into this week’s state championship.

By: The Watcher

The Watcher — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 07:18:48 +0000

They should have done what they used to do. ILH Champ is the team with the best regular season record. That team gets the ILH’s first automatic berth and one of the 4 HHSAA Seeds and byes.

The remaining teams get seeded based on regular season record and play an elimination game. The last team standing gets the ILH’s second berth into the HHSAA Tourney.

This year it would have looked like this:

ILH Champ – Punahou

ILH 2nd Place Tourney:

Iolani vs. (winner of STL vs. Mid Pac)

Maryknoll vs. Kamehameha

Winner or the two games above plays for the 2nd berth.

By: locomoco

locomoco — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:47:49 +0000

ILH’s 1st round/2nd round system is so flawed. No league should have its top teams playing big games 5 or 6 times in the week before the State tournament. When you have three teams tied for first place in the first round, the ILH champ should be the one out of those three who wins the second round – skip the 1st round mini-playoff, draw straws for 2nd round seeding. As far as last night’s ILH championship, Punahou won the games they needed to win, but the luck of the draw really helped their path and really did Maryknoll in. Iolani gets into States, but what a horrendous stretch of games.