In MA, each coach puts 5 or 10 (I can't remember which) acceptable officials on a list. The tournament assignor then draws from that pool of officials, I guess, trying to match "acceptable" refs with the coaches that listed them.
That only goes so far, tho, b/c once you get to the state semis, the teams are matched with teams from another area of the state. Those coaches have never seen our refs, and our coaches have never seen their refs. So I don't know how it works for those matchups.
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