2000 NSC
| 2000 PACE NSC | |
|---|---|
| Edited by | Emil Thomas Chuck et al. |
| Champion | State College |
| Runner-up | Eisenhower |
| Third | Riverdale and Dorman |
| High scorer | Jacob Mikanowski |
| Site | Furman |
| Field | 16 |
| Stats | |
The 2000 National Scholastic Championship was won by State College, consisting of Jacob Mikanowski, Martin Devecka, Madhury Ray, and Nicole Czacon. The tournament was announced as being held at Furman University on Saturday, June 3 and Sunday, June 4, 2000.
The event was held one week before the HSNCT in Atlanta. Atlanta is less than 150 miles from Greenville and is home to the second-closest major airport (after Charlotte which is about 100 miles away in the other direction). To avoid teams from out of the region travelling to essentially the same place two weekends in a row, Detroit Catholic Central coach Howard Weinberg proposed moving the NSC to the Monday and Tuesday after HSNCT, which was not seriously considered at the time, but perhaps would have been a good idea for attracting more participants.
During the week before the tournament, Furman University announced that major electrical work on the campus would begin on Sunday, June 4 and power would be shut off campus-wide. The Sunday rounds were hastily re-scheduled for Pickens High School about twenty miles west of the campus. The 2000 and 2006 NSCs are the only known national championship tournaments held at a high school campus since the end of the National Academic Super Bowl. All other nationals have been held at college campuses, hotels, or TV studios.
Tournament format
The 16 teams were divided into two prelim brackets of eight and played a seven-game round robin on Saturday. Based on prelim finish, four four-team playoff brackets were constructed for Sunday morning with no prelim record carryover, with the winners of the four brackets going to a four-team single-elim championship. Every team "made the playoffs" and had the opportunity to qualify for the final four based on their three Sunday morning games alone. This format created three separate points in the schedule at which a team could be eliminated from championship contention with a single loss, and resulted in a 9-1 team finishing fifth.
Because all teams continued to have scheduled games that theoretically kept them in contention for the championship through round 10, this was the only year in the history of the NSC in which no separate consolation playoff was held.
Tournament results
State College defeated Eisenhower in the final, 315-185. State College and Eisenhower defeated Riverdale and Dorman in the semifinals, respectively.
Incidents
A moderator was banned from staffing the NSC in the future over a pattern of behavior at this tournament, including revealing the fact that a particular answer was coming up in a future packet when a player incorrectly guessed it for a question in an earlier round.
Individual results
Individual stats were not released, but were likely kept at the tournament as several performances were added to the NSC record book. The tournament all-stars, selected by polling teams and staff, were Andrew Malcovsky of Burlington, Martin Devecka of State College, Jacob Mikanowski of State College, Ben Neale of Maggie Walker, Patrick Riser of Riverdale, Kevin Roth of Eisenhower, Paul Schultz of Detroit Catholic Central, and Matt Weiner of Maggie Walker.
The top three prelim scorers, by ppg, were:
- Jacob Mikanowski, State College A - 147 ppg
- Kevin Roth, Eisenhower - 143 ppg
- Matt Weiner, Maggie Walker A - 120 ppg
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