REVISED 11/23/21
Statement of Intent:
League Fees, etc.: There will be league fees but no insurance fees associated with this league. It is suggested that community sign-up sheets contain a clause absolving the Community Coordinator, Coaches, Schools, and League, of any liability in case of accident or injury to the players. Each community is recommended to provide insurance for their respective association and individual players.
COVID POLICY: Currently there are no COVID-19 related state ordered restrictions regarding school sports for either athletes or spectators, from either the MHSAA or the Michigan Department of Health &Human Services (MDHHS). School districts can establish indoor mask mandates as well as other procedures (i.e., sharing of water bottles). County health departments may also institute certain mandates. Visiting teams must follow the restrictions of the host schools. The Red Cedar Hoops league will be sharing information on individual location requirements as we get closer to the season. Please be prepared as your teams visit different locations throughout the season. Thanks again for your patience!
COVID cancellations: All COVID related cancellations shall be considered forfeits by the affected and will not be made up or rescheduled.
Refunds: Once the league schedule is started and posted no league fee’s will be refunded. General refunds such as uniforms, officials are up to the community. Tournament entry shall be refunded back to the community if paid earlier than the posted tournament cancellation dates.
Team size: A minimum of 9 players to a team. Maximum team size is at the Coach’s discretion.
Coach: Coaches can only coach one team
Team configuration: Please note this is a community based league. Please consider team size if you have non-community based travel players. Schedule changes will not occur to work around travel players.
League Choice: Communities may place teams in either the A league (Gold) or the B league (Silver) or the C League (Bronze). It is strongly recommended that we properly evaluate or teams and program before we make these decisions. Communities over 350 high school students should consider a team in the gold division. A second Gold team should be considered if a high school has over 600 students. After the schedule is complete no team can change to a different division. Once a team is in a division they must play in that divisions league tournament.
5th -6th Bronze Divisions: Players should have little or no playing experience. Note: failure to follow this policy could result in your team being moved to upper division of the Silver tournament. This is at the director’s discretion.
7th-8th Bronze Divisions: Players should have little or no playing experience and will combine into one division. Note: failure to follow this policy could result in your team being moved to upper division of the Silver tournament. This is at the director’s discretion.
4th Bronze Divisions: This division is intended for new players with very little experience. Note: failure to follow this policy could result in your team being moved to upper division of the Silver tournament. This is at the director’s discretion.
All Gold and Bronze Divisions: If less than 8 teams all teams will be moved to Silver
3rd Bronze: The division of which all 3rd teams will play
Division Changes: After the schedule is complete no team can change to a different division. Once a team is in a division they must play in that division’s league tournament. The league director may move a team up or down a division for tournaments only. If this is determined through communication with the community coordinator and the league director. The criteria for this shall include zero wins or zero losses. Note: the team shall be moving to the highest lower division if winless or to the highest upper division in undefeated.
Schedule: League games shall consist of Saturdays and Sundays based on gym availability. The schedule will be posted on based on the timing sheet posted on the website. Any schedule changes after that time will require a $50 fee to be paid to the director. Normal emergency’s such as loss of gym, avoiding a forfeit will not be required to pay the fee but this will be at the director’s discretion.
Schedule: Coaches who refuse to play a team on their schedule shall have the team’s schedule removed and all remaining games will be considered a forfeit
Rust Off tournaments: These are non-roster events designed to provide and option for extra
games when the league is not having regularly scheduled games.
Coordinator Identification: Each site shall have the gym host identified by wearing a shirt that includes the host schools name.
Conditions Form/Roster: All players shall provide the Red Cedar league with a conditions form (wavier) and the head injury awareness form provided by the MHSAA complete with signatures for each individual player on that one individual team. One copy of this waiver will be on file with the league. Each team shall also provide a roster for their individual team. This will be with the coaches and on file with the Red Cedar league. Players can only participate on one Red Cedar team and once the roster is on file players shall remain with that team.
Coaches: All coaches are required to have NFHS training (Concussion in sport v2.0) and to have the certificate with them at all Red Cedar League events. The Red Cedar league recommends but does not require that all coaches are aware of the signs of sudden-cardiac-arrest. On-line training can be obtained through the NHFS course sudden cardiac arrest. Follow this link for training: https://nfhslearn.com/courses/61032/sudden-cardiac-arrest
Shooting: No shooting at baskets during halftime or between games for anyone but players participating in the current scheduled contest
Parents: Do not cross gym floor for any reason during or after the contest. Meet with players after the contest in designated area or hallway.
Covid-19: Please be aware of the communities Covid-19 policy and be aware of that’s communities requirement. Admission and participation will be followed or the team’s game will be a forfeit.
Emergency Information: Each individual player shall complete the emergency information and consent form. A copy of this form will be in the coach’s possession at all Red Cedar Youth basketball events.
Weather and cancellations: Each individual community coordinator in communication with the other community coordinator shall make decisions on the weather. Make-up of these delayed or cancelled games shall be that decision of the effected communities. If the game is not played due to weather and cannot be made up the game shall be considered a tie. A winter storm warning in any of the participating counties will result in all games being cancelled as determined by the league director
Teams that “no show”: Teams that do not show up for a scheduled game will be subject to a mandatory $100 penalty to be paid to the league director. All penalties will be submitted to the host community to help offset payments to officials and gym costs. The final determination will be made by the league director.
Admission Fee: All sites where the games are held shall charge a standard admission of $3.00 for adults, $2.00 for students. Any further discounts shall be up to the host community. Admission for league tournaments and doubleheaders will charge a standard admission of $5.00 for adults, $2.00 for students. Any further discounts shall be up to the host community.
Tournament Concessions: It is the right of the host community to provide concession facilities. It is also the right of the host community to deny individual teams from bringing in their own concessions.
Communication: Only the Board of Directors and the League Director will have any say in any rule changes. The participating community will follow these rules and will not make any changes at their site when having home games
Ref Pay: Each community coordinator shall establish ref pay account. If a community has a team playing at an alternative site and is responsible for officials it will be the responsible community coordinator to communicate with the host site and to make a payment to ref pay to cover the officials with the host sites established account. The host site will pay the officials. Each coordinator should look ahead at the schedule and have this completed before the scheduled contest.
Ejections: If a player, coach or spectator is ejected from a contest they will be suspended from the next contest. A second offense shall result in removal from the league for the remainder of the season. The host site is responsible to report this to the league. Officials shall file an incident report to the host site. This shall be completed in 24 hours and turned in to the league director. This form will be in the possession of each coordinator and will be at all games. If a player, coach or spectator is removed from any league tournament or league sponsored tournament the will not be eligible for the remainder of the tournament.
Referees: Two referees for each game. Registered officials are mandatory. Each official shall place the registration number in the official scorebook and have the number on file with the league director. Home team Community Coordinators will arrange for and pay referees. Games may be played if only one referee attends, by no means shall we use an imposter. The rate for the registered officials will be set at $30.00 per game for 3rd thru 6th grade. $35 per game for 7th and 8th grade. The league will try to make paying for official’s as even as possible. The home team on the schedule (defined as official payment) will be responsible to pay for the officials no matter the location.
Game Schedules: Game schedules will be arranged to provide ½ of season games at home, ½ away. If an 8-game season is decided upon, a team may only have 3 home games. Please be aware scheduling with odd numbers may add additional games to provide everyone with the minimum amount of games .It is suggested that gym reservations be made for all Saturdays and or Sundays between (12/04/2021 and (3/12/2022) until a league schedule is agreed upon. There is also a chance for some non-league scheduling if at the Community Coordinator’s discretion, as long as there is no conflict with the league game schedule. Non-league games will be coordinated between the effected Community Coordinator, and the non-league Coordinator.
Gold Division Teams: All Gold division teams shall play each other up to a minimum of 9 games. Please be aware scheduling with odd numbers may add additional games to provide everyone with the minimum amount of games. This will require these teams to play both Saturday and Sunday on some weekends. This may also force some teams to only have 4 home games with some teams only having 3. Teams will still be expected to pay for the officials for half of the games played. One week on the schedule with consist of a position day.
7/8 Girls/Fall Boys Game Schedules: This league is for 7th and 8th grade girls only. The 7th and 8th Girls will begin 11/06/2021 with the first 4 weeks at one or two sites to work around gym time. This schedule will be mostly doubleheaders with exceptions to the number of teams which sometimes make this impossible. You will play two games and go home whenever possible. The league will attempt but sometimes it is not possible to provide each team a home date based on gym time provided by that community. Each community should provide gym time. Each team should plan on playing up to 7 to 10 regular seasons games if gym time allows. Each team should budget to pay for the officials up to 5 times. This cost is $420.00 per team. This will be paid at the game site as specified by the schedule. The home team no matter the location will be responsible for the officials.
7/8 Boys Game Schedules: This league is for 7th and 8th grade boys only. The 7th and 8th Boys will begin 1/15/2021 with the first 4 or 5 weeks at one or two sites to work around gym time. This schedule will be mostly doubleheaders with exceptions to the number of teams which sometimes make this impossible. You will play two games and go home whenever possible. Each community should provide gym time. The league will attempt but sometimes it is not possible to provide each team a home date based on gym time provided by that community. Each team should plan on playing up to 9 to 11 regular seasons games. Each team should budget to pay for the officials up to 6 times. This cost is $420.00 or $490.00 per team. This will be paid at the game site as specified by the schedule. The home team no matter the location will be responsible for the officials.
General Schedule Information
Tournament divisions:
Tournament Host:
Tie Breakers Gold Divisions: Tiebreakers will be used in case of a tie. These tiebreakers will be used only for determining seeds and/or placement in the league tournaments. This can be used in any division or geographical division. This should be communicated between coordinators and coaches. The tiebreakers shall be as follows:
Tiebreaker #1: Head to Head record with tied teams
Tiebreaker #2: Head to Head point differential with tied teams
Tiebreaker #3: Overall record vs common opponents
Tiebreaker #4: Overall point differential vs common opponents
Tiebreaker #5: Coin toss
Tie Breakers Silver and Bronze Divisions: Tiebreakers will be used in case of a tie. These tiebreakers will be used only for determining seeds and/or placement in the league tournaments. This can be used in any division or geographical division. This should be communicated between coordinators and coaches. The tiebreakers shall be as follows:
Tiebreaker #1: Head to Head record with tied teams
Tiebreaker #2: Head to Head point differential with tied teams
Tiebreaker #3: Coin toss
Community Coordinators and League Directors Responsibilities:
Tournament payment:
Tournament Refund
Tournament Cancellation
League Configuration
Tournaments
School of Choice