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The Show Me Invitational was a League 15 Tournament consisting of the exhibition season and first three regular season games


The Show Me Invitational was a tournament hosted by the Branson Bullfrogs. The tournament consists of teams from Missouri and other teams from across the country. This tournament started with the director seeing the need for more regular season tournament action in League 15. The tournament ran for 5 seasons.


Previous Champions

Season Champion
67 Pensacola Gulf Bandits
68 Casper Hania
69 Detroit Audacity
70 Indianapolis Blue Skys
71 Alexandria Flyers

Selection Process

The Show Me Invitational's current format consists of a 20 team field.

The Selection process is broken down into three tiers. Selection is based on Tier 1 first, with any openings being filled by Tier 2, and any openings after that are filled by Tier 3.

Tier 1: Missouri Local Tier. Joplin, Jefferson City, St. Louis, Branson, Independence, and Kansas City are given first shot at entering tournament.

Tier 2: Defending Show Me Invitational Champions are given Tier 2 priority.

Tier 3: First come first serve open enrollment.

Only 2 teams from a single conference are allowed entry with current set up.

Previous seasons: Season 1 had 8 teams, Season 2 had 12 teams. Season 3 had 16 teams

Groups

The field is broken up into four divisions. The names of the divisions will change, but will feature four legendary figures in Missouri history. Teams from the same conference will not be in the same division.

I will try to make sure that the groups are as equal as possible. To do this I will attempt to make sure that each group has a total of 18 seed points.

ex: 1,4,5,8 and 2,3,6,7



Championship Rules

The winner of each group will advance to the Championship Round. The group champions will play in a scrimmage to advance in the playoffs and these winners will play to determine the Show Me Invitational Champion and win the Truman Trophy, named after Missouri's only president.

Scheduling will be a round robin in group play and 1 team from each other group.

Group Championship determining is overall tourney record, group record, head to head, point diffential, total points scored, total rebounds, total steals, total blocks. Resetting after each team loses tiebreak. If 3 teams are still tied after all of these tiebreaks, the 4th place team in that group automatically moves on to championship. Yes...you could still somehow get through because of tiebreak insanity.



Past Results

All Time Records in Show Me Invitational

Team Record Seasons
Indianapolis Blue Skys 26-9 67-71
Casper Hania 24-7 68-71
Jackson Highlanders 17-14 67-71
Ames Pride 16-16 67-71
Lexington Bereans 16-16 67-71
Lubbock Fury 15-6 68-70
St. Louis Fighting Imps 14-16 67-71
Branson Bullfrogs 14-19 67-71
Pensacola Gulf Bandits 11-3 67, 68
Detroit Audacity 9-5 69-70
Bangor Black Bears 9-9 69-71
Springfield Smokers 9-16 68-71
Alexandria Flyers 8-0 71
Corpus Christi Soup Rocks 7-7 69-70
Duluth Dugongs 6-6 69-70
Louisville Steamboats 5-3 70
Reading Jammers 4-2 69
Macon Whoopee 3-27 67-71
Pasadena Castrators 2-4 69
Myrtle Beach Shaggers 2-4 70
Tucson Tribe 2-4 70
Daytona 500 2-10 68, 70
Richmond Friars 1-11 70-71
Gainesville Gus Burgers 0-6 70

Past Playoff Results

Season 67

Pensacola 87 Ames 85

Season 68

  Semi-finals Final
 
 Lubbock  74  
 Pensacola  58  
 
 
      Lubbock  63
    Casper  81
 
 Casper  87
 Branson  47  


Season 69


  Semi-finals Final
 
 Detroit  69  
 Jackson  55  
 
 
      Detroit  68
    Indianapolis  66
 
 Indianapolis  69
 Corpus Christi  67  

Past Honors

First Team All Tournament by season. These were the headliners of the Show Me Invitational. It is a great honor to be named a 1st team all tournament player.

Season 67


Position Player
PG: John Piper - Ames
SG: Jimmy Russell - Ames
SF: Erick Upshaw - Jackson
PF: Bennie Bacio - Indianapolis
C: Mario Barlow - Pensacola
Top Player: Jimmy Russell - Ames
Best Freshman: Erick Upshaw - Jackson

Season 68

Position Player
PG: Johnny Wade - Pensacola
SG: Jonathan Akins - Springfield
SF: Erick Upshaw - Jackson
PF: Joey Taylor - Branson
C: Arthur Phillips - Indianapolis
Top Player: Johnny Wade - Pensacola
Best Freshman: Lavon Dickinson - St. Louis

Season 69

Position Player
PG: Matthew Stacey - Duluth
SG: Stephen Breedlove - Reading
SF: Benny Bacio - Indianapolis
PF: Erick Winburn - Ames
C: Arthur Phillips - Indianapolis
Top Player: Erick Winburn - Ames
Best Freshman: Leroi Martin - Indianapolis

Season 70

Position Player
PG: Gjende Bennett - Indianapolis
SG: Lavon Dickinson - St Louis
SF: Benny Bacio - Indianapolis
PF: Erick Upshaw - Jackson
C: Peanut Williams III - Duluth
Top Player: Gjende Bennett - Indianapolis
Best Freshman: Jimmy Peel - Macon