The WIAA has announced a new basketball divisional placement model on its website:
http://www.wiaawi.org/index.php?id=427
This plan has been recommended for discussion by the WIAA Board of Control. It breaks up all the member schools into 5 divisions instead of 4. It also bumps up private schools who meet two criteria:
- In school districts with more than one public high school, any nonpublic school located in that district would be moved up one division from where its enrollment would normally place it.
- If a nonpublic school is located in a district that has one public high school with an enrollment within that of the largest 30 (1695 students for 2010) basketball schools in the membership, the nonpublic school would be moved up one division from where its enrollment would normally place it.
- Note: If a nonpublic schoolʼs enrollment lands them within the smallest 30 schools of a given division, that nonpublic school would not be moved up a division.
Since Immanuel resides in the Eau Claire school district where there are two public schools in that district, Immanuel would be bumped up to Div. 4 of 5 divisions. According to the criteria, Immanuel would be the smallest school in that division (see #391 in the link below) and would play against schools nearly 3 times its size in the WIAA tournament series:
http://www.wiaawi.org/basketballboys/5divcriteria.pdf
