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Originally Posted by bisonlj
The biggest state tournament in Minnesota and to some extent in North Dakota is hockey. That seems so strange to me now since Indiana doesn't even sanction hockey.
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At Engelstad Arena ($110 million hockey facility) in Grand Forks they have replay available for NCAA games but they don't use it for HS hockey tournaments. I believe the IR for NCAA is used only for determining if a goal has been scored or not.
I don't think (maybe this is wishful thinking) that state HS associations philosophically believe that IR is necessary and that they believe that sports still have an educational value that is more important than winning at all costs.
However, there seems to be mounting pressure to make HS sports bigger and more like college or pro sports.