Thursday May 6th, 2021 9:00am
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In a season full of surprises, a pair of favorites punched their tickets to the NCAA Tournament last weekend, with UNC winning the ACC and Northwestern taking the Big Ten crown. Outside of the Power Five, High Point secured its fourth-straight NCAA Tournament automatic qualifier by winning the Big South.
But donât use a pen if youâre trying Bracketology at home. Thereâs still plenty up in the air. St. Joe s shook things up by downing nationally-ranked Richmond in the A-10 semis last weekend, opening the door for UMass to earn its bid to the tournament and leaving the Spiders to sweat it out, hoping for an at-large bid on Sunday.
Using the six-ticket concept, the largest Marion high school, West Port, would end up with roughly 3,400 attendees, or 57% capacity. Dunnellon, one of the smaller high schools, would have 1,500 attendees, or about 25% capacity.
Beth McCall, citing COVID-19 health concerns, was adamant at keeping the tickets set at six per graduate, regardless of school size. However, she relented after Campbell s detailed and spirited speech.
Ultimately the district decided to give 10 tickets to graduates at the three smallest high schools: Dunnellon, Lake Weir and North Marion.
Graduates from the two medium-size high schools, Belleview and Vanguard, will get eight tickets. Students attending West Port and Forest high schools, the two largest, will get six tickets.