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Do the Ohio rules allow scheduling of games during the state tourney? If the answer is yes than the coach was following the letter of the rules.
I know a team that tried this in Michigan several years ago. They had a player ejected on a Tuesday during a pre-district game.
The MHSAA's suspension is one game date, so the team rescheduled a double header for Thursday (to replace a single game rainout), which the offending player was forced to sit out.
What the school did not realize was that they royally screwed up in doing so. The MHSAA uses a point system, 1 point per date of competition, and 1 point for each game played. The single game rainout would have been 2 points. The rescheduled DH was 3 points (2 games, plus the date). After the team lost its district semi-final game, it was pointed out to the AD that had they won the game, the opposing team would have notified the state immediately of a points violation, and thus the offending team would be removed from the playoffs. In Michigan teams are allowed 56 total points. The single game scheduled would have been 56, but when they scheduled the DH in stead of a single game, that put them at 57 points, and in violation.
We also had a team miss a tourney final a few years ago because of a similar points issue. They had not expected to make the championship game of a big tourney. The coach, before the final realized that if they played they would be 1 point over the limit, and thus forced to miss the post-season. Since they could not remove any later games from the schedule (all in conference games), they had to withdraw from the tourney final and hand the championship to the opponent unopposed.
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