2024 MSHSAA State Championship

The 2024 MSHSAA State Championship were held on May 3-4, 2024. Classes 1-3 competed on Friday and Classes 4-6 played on Saturday.

Questions and Format

Questions for Districts and State were once again provided by NAQT in the 22 tossup-bonus format. All questions were worth 10 points each with no powers or negs.

To produce the question sets for conferences and the state series, IS-221A, IS-223A, and IS-228 were unavailable for use during the regular season in Missouri.

Districts

Eight district tournaments in each of the six classes were held on April 13. District championship game matchups are available on the MSHSAA website.

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal matches on April 23 consisted of best two-of-three matchups between the winners of two adjacent districts. The winner of each quarterfinal advanced to the remaining rounds of the state championship.

Class 1

• School of the Ozarks def. Golden City (2-0)
• North Shelby def. Pilot Grove (2-0)
• Linn County def. King City (2-0)
• Mound City def. Jefferson (Conception Junction) (2-0)

Class 2

• Brentwood def. Puxico (2-0)
• Calvary Lutheran def. Thomas Jefferson Independent (2-0)
• Weaubleau def. Sturgeon (2-0)
• Polo def. Schuyler County (2-1)

Class 3

None of the Class 3 district winners had previously appeared in a state championship final match.

• St. Mary's def. Arcadia Valley (2-0)
• Fordland def. Skyline (2-1)
• Hermann def. South Shelby (2-1)
• West Platte def. Butler (2-0)

Class 4

• Fair Grove def. Central (Park Hills) (2-0)
• College Heights Christian def. Eldon (2-0)
• Winfield def. De Smet (2-0)
• Lutheran (Kansas City) def. Oak Grove (2-0)

Class 5

• St. Louis Priory def. Notre Dame (Cape Girardeau) (2-0)
• Mexico def. Washington (2-0)
• Jefferson City def. Nevada (2-1)
• Rockhurst def. Smithville (2-1)

Class 6

• Lindbergh def. Parkway West (2-1)
• Republic def. Springfield Central (2-0)
• Rolla def. Lee's Summit West (2-0)
• St. Joseph Central def. North Kansas City (2-0)

State Finals

The Class 1-3 state finals on May 3 and the Class 4-6 state finals on May 4 were held at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The state finals consisted of a preliminary round robin, with the top two teams advancing to the championship game and the bottom two teams advancing to the consolation game.

While the preliminary schedule is a full round robin, the order that the games are played rotates each year. The Class 1-3 finals on Friday mistakenly used the schedule for the 2025 tournament. The Class 4-6 schedule was later corrected to follow the order prescribed by the 2023-24 MSHSAA Scholar Bowl manual.

Class 1

Round 1
Linn County 220, School of the Ozarks 190
Mound City 250, North Shelby 160

Round 2
Mound City 330, School of the Ozarks 160
North Shelby 340, Linn County 250

Round 3
North Shelby 290, School of the Ozarks 170
Mound City 250, Linn County 180

Preliminary Round Standings
1. Mound City 3-0, 830 pts.
2. North Shelby 2-1, 790 pts.
3. Linn County 1-2, 650 pts.
4. School of the Ozarks 0-3, 520 pts.

Consolation
(4) School of the Ozarks 250, (3) Linn County 160

Championship Game
(1) Mound City 290, (2) North Shelby 260

Class 2

Round 1
Weaubleau 320, Brentwood 140
Calvary Lutheran 320, Polo 200

Round 2
Polo 310, Brentwood 190
Weaubleau 350, Calvary Lutheran 250

Round 3
Calvary Lutheran 390, Brentwood 180
Weaubleau 380, Polo 180

Preliminary Round Standings
1. Weaubleau 3-0, 1050 pts.
2. Calvary Lutheran 2-1, 960 pts.
3. Polo 1-2, 690 pts.
4. Brentwood 0-3, 510 pts.

Consolation
(3) Polo 280, (4) Brentwood 230

Championship Game
(2) Calvary Lutheran 390, (1) Weaubleau 270

Class 3

Round 1
Hermann 250, St. Mary's 220
Fordland 230, West Platte 190

Round 2
West Platte 310, St. Mary's 270
Hermann 340, Fordland 190

Round 3
Fordland 260, St. Mary's 240
West Platte 320, Hermann 250

Preliminary Round Standings
1. Hermann 2-1, 840 pts.
2. West Platte 2-1, 820 pts.
3. Fordland 2-1, 680 pts.
4. St. Mary's 0-3, 730 pts.

Consolation
(3) Fordland 260, (4) St. Mary's 200

Championship Game
(2) West Platte 310, (1) Hermann 300

Class 4

Round 1
College Heights Christian 340, Fair Grove 320
Winfield 410, Lutheran (Kansas City) 140

Round 2
Fair Grove 280, Winfield 270
College Heights Christian 550, Lutheran (Kansas City) 60

Round 3
Fair Grove 310, Lutheran (Kansas City) 270
College Heights Christian 420, Winfield 260

Preliminary Round Standings
1. College Heights Christian 3-0, 1310 pts.
2. Fair Grove 2-1, 910 pts.
3. Winfield 1-2, 940 pts.
4. Lutheran (Kansas City) 0-3, 470 pts.

Consolation
(3) Winfield 450, (4) Lutheran (Kansas City) 110

Championship Game
(1) College Heights Christian 500, (2) Fair Grove 180

Class 5

Round 1
Mexico 430, Priory 200
Jefferson City 330, Rockhurst 250

Round 2
Priory 530, Jefferson City 190
Mexico 460, Rockhurst 190

Round 3
Priory 630, Rockhurst 100
Mexico 620, Jefferson City 130

Preliminary Round Standings
1. Mexico 3-0, 1510 pts.
2. Priory 2-1, 1360 pts.
3. Jefferson City 1-2, 650 pts.
4. Rockhurst 0-3, 540 pts.

Consolation
(4) Rockhurst 360, (3) Jefferson City 250

Championship Game
(2) Priory 460, (1) Mexico 240

Class 6

Round 1
Lindbergh 520, Republic 100
St. Joseph Central 470, Rolla 220

Round 2
Lindbergh 430, Rolla 230
St. Joseph Central 530, Republic 90

Round 3
St. Joseph Central 390, Lindbergh 370
Rolla 430, Republic 180

Preliminary Round Standings
1. St. Joseph Central 3-0, 1390 pts.
2. Lindbergh 2-1, 1320 pts.
3. Rolla 1-2, 880 pts.
4. Republic 0-3, 370 pts.

Entering the final preliminary round, St. Joseph Central and Lindbergh were 2-0 and Rolla and Republic were 0-2. Because MSHSAA insists on having one championship game and a third place game, the format used for the state championship resulted in the third round having no direct statistical impact on placement in the tournament even before it was played.

Consolation
(3) Rolla 310, (4) Republic 280

Championship Game
(2) Lindbergh 490, (1) St. Joseph Central 220

Notes

• Smithville's 350-280 win in the Class 5 District 8 final snapped Savannah's streak of 23 consecutive district championships dating back to the school's first district championship in 2000. The longest active streak became St. Joseph Central's 10 consecutive championships dating to 2014. With Houston and Kickapoo also losing their district championship games, Central's is the only streak active as of 2024 that extends before 2021 into the four class era.
• Because of increasing enrollment and the championship factor applied to private schools, Lutheran (Kansas City) became the first school to win a district in three different classes in the six class era (Class 1 in 2021, Class 3 in 2022-2023, and Class 4 in 2024), later winning quarterfinals and advancing to the state championship all four years. This was never accomplished during the four class era, when the enrollments of private schools were inflated by a constant multiplier rather than considering past performance in the MSHSAA championship series.
• The #2 seed won the championship in four of six classes, reversing the result of the preliminary game in three. This was the most non-#1 seeds to win a state championship in a single state tournament since at least 2002 and probably all-time. However, in all six classes, the state champion had the best record outright, or had the most points across all four rounds when tied for the best record.
• In the 28 years MSHSAA has run the state championship, not counting the first tournament in 1996, this was only the third time (after 2002 and 2016) that none of the champions had won a championship at the previous season's state tournament.

External References

• 2024 District Results
• 2024 State Results

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