State Basketball Sportsmanship Award

The Boys Basketball State Tournament next week includes a Sportsmanship Award for the team-school-fans that display the best sportsmanship during the tournament. Bancroft-Rosalie School has won the award in 2008 and 2009 at the Girls State Tournament.
Lyons-Decatur won the award in 2016.

If there is a trophy to be given, we want to win it. I am including the expectations and judging criteria for the Sportsmanship Award.

Any posters or signs must encourage our team and not denigrate the opponent.

Any cheers must be supportive of our team and not against the opponent. Some negative cheers have occurred during the season- clean it up for state.

Here is the Evaluation report for the 2015 Boys Tournament and the 2014 Girls Tournament. The judges at the Boys Tournament noted excessive yelling by the fans. We have had three years to correct this problem and if it occurs then actions will be taken against those causing the problem.