For Coaches
Qualifications for Play
Qualification of Teams for Tournament Play
- Twelve district winners will participate in the tournament
- The top 8 teams will be seeded, with the top four teams receiving a bye
- The remaining four teams will be selected by blind draw
- Each district shall determine its entry
- District winners must be determined one week prior to the start of the tournament (March 12, 2008)
Seeding Process
The top 8 teams will be seeded by the selection directors in conjunction with the NJCAA National Office.
The seeding will take place a week prior to the start of the tournament.
Seeding will be on the basis of, in no particular order:
- Regional placement in the national tournament the previous year
- Strength of Region/District
- National Poll
- Overall JUCO Record
Tournament Districts *
District A: Region 1, (5), (18)
District B: Region 2, 6, 23, (24)
District C: Region 3, 15
District D: Region 4a
District E: Region 9, 11
District F: Region 13, 16
District G: Region 12 West
District H: Region 12 East
District I: Region 19, 21
District J: Region 20
District K: Region 4b, (8), (10), (17)
District L: Region 24, (7)
Should a member of the seeding committee be a coach of a team that participates in the tournament, that individual shall be excluded from the seeding process.
* Regions listed in parenthesis do not have teams currently participating within this division.
District G (West): Ancilla, Clark State, Edison, Glen Oaks, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo Valley, Kellogg, Lake Michigan, Lansing, Muskegon, and Sinclair.
District H (East): Alpena, Columbus State, Cuyahoga, Delta, Henry Ford, Kirtland, Lakeland, Macomb, Mott, Oakland, Owens, Schoolcraft, St. Clair, and Wayne County.
In a region that has one certified team in a division, that team must have compiled an overall record of at least .500 by February 14th. In a district comprised of only two regions, where one of those regions has but one single participating school; that school must participate in the other region’s regional tournament. The winner of this tournament will be declared the district champion. The highest finishing team of each region will be declared that region’s champion.
If a district winner declines to participate, the district runner-up shall be the representative. Should a district winner or runner-up decline to enter the NJCAA tournament, the order of substitutions listed in the handbook shall be used to determine teams for the NJCAA tournament. When a team accepts or declines the opportunity to compete in the NJCAA tournament through the substitution procedure, the district drops to the end of the substitution order.