Plan to add games to South Dakota basketball season doesn't get support from ADs

The original proposal was drafted by Rapid City Christian activities ...

Apr. 17—MITCHELL — The South Dakota high school basketball regular season is staying at 20 games. A proposal to increase the number of allowed regular-season contests to 22 games for both girls and boys basketball failed by a 89-23 vote at the South Dakota Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association spring conference.

The original proposal was drafted by Rapid City Christian activities director and head boys basketball coach Kyle Courtney and was approved by a 4-2 vote from the South Dakota High School Activities Association basketball advisory committee in February. It was the only proposal out of six presented to the advisory committee to reach the SDIAAA conference. The vote from the SDIAAA members is non-binding.

The SDHSAA Board of Directors will take that feedback and input from SDHSAA staff into consideration before voting on the proposal during their April 22-23 board meeting. Proposed sport rule changes need to pass two rounds of SDHSAA Board of Directors voting before being formally approved. Class AA schools voted 15-3 against the plan to allow up to 22 games.