1.College throwball players can decide that they want to enter the transfer portal and choose their next school, however they will not be eligible until the next academic year during the regular season. Following the end of their season, players can decide to transfer by May 1. After May 1, decisions to transfer will put the players eligibility into question the following academic year. Any transfer commitments can be made before the beginning of the school year.
2.Each college throwball program is now allowed to have seventeen scholarship players. It was moved up from fifteen allowed previously.
3.The end of season TN Tropical Smoothie Nationals event will move from just eight to sixteen teams, which was previously announced. Although it could change, the opening round of the first sixteen team event will be played Monday March 6, 2023.
4.There will be no high school exhibition games played until the beginning of pre-Off-Season Regional Practice from June 27-July 8. The Off-Season Regionals will begin on July 11.
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Everyone attending:
All NCAA T-Division Officials
All TN Officials
Anthony Cook, Big 12 Throwball Director
Benton Cook, East Valley Commissioner/Throwball Director
John Ellie, Big Ten Throwball Director
Bob Fillion, ACA Commissioner/Throwball Director,
George Hall, East Valley Commissioner/Throwball Director
Carter Huff, TN Founder, TN Reporter
Matt Johnson, TN Recruiting Director
Bob Leonard, NCAA T-Division President, VP of College Throwball
Brett Reddick, NTBL Commissioner
Jim Scott, Pac-12 Throwball Director
Sean Thomas, Big Southwest Throwball Director
Jamie Williams, SEC Throwball Director
Pete Williams, ACC Throwball Director
Dylan Wilson, TN Reporter, Commissioner/Director of WTBL
1.Transfer decision rules
2.Scholarship limits
3.The new 16-team TN Tropical Smoothie Nationals Event will be set in stone
1.Due to the coronavirus, both men’s and women’s collegiate players will each get another free year of eligibility.
2.Under normal circumstances, players transferring a second time will have to sit out a full season. But due to the upcoming season being a “free year” every player in the country will be eligible to play.
3.The 2021 High School Throwball Off-Season Regionals have been moved up from beginning August 2 to Monday July 5 this year. All succeeding off-season regionals will also be played the Monday following July 4 every year.
4.High School Throwball exhibition games can be played up until then.
1.Expanded high school throwball nationals (16 teams-set to begin 2022-2023 season)
Proposed Bracket (Dates in 2023):
March 6
1.
16.
8.
9.
March 6
5.
12.
4.
13.
March 7
6.
11.
3.
14.
March 7
7.
10.
2.
15.
(Round of 8 March 8-9)
(Final Four March 11)
(Championship March 13)
2.Edited bracket for Off-Season High School Regionals (to begin in 2021 off-season)
Proposed bracket for single region
(1 and 2 seeds get bye into round 2) (Dates for 2021)
Round 1
August 2-Game #1
8.
9.
August 2-Game #2
7.
10.
Round 2
August 3-Game #3
1.
8./9.
August 3-Game #4
4.
5.
August 3-Game #5
2.
7./10.
August 3-Game #6
3.
6.
Round 3
August 4-Game #7
Game #3 Winner
Game #4 Winner
August 4-Game #8
Game #5 Winner
Game #6 Winner
August 6, 7, 8 (If necessary, best two out of three game series)
Game #7 Winner
Game #8 Winner
Final Four/Championship Bracket Bracket
Final Four
August 10, 11, 12
Regional Winner
Regional Winner
August 10, 11, 12
Regional Winner
Regional Winner
Championship
August 14, 15, 16
Regional Winner/Regional Winner
Regional Winner/Regional Winner
Everyone attending:
Anthony Cook, Big 12 Throwball Director
Benton Cook, AtlanticWest Commissioner/Throwball Director
John Ellie, Big Ten Throwball Director
Bob Fillion, ACA/Big Southwest Commissioner/Throwball Director, Denver Throwball Director
George Hall, East/West Valley Commissioner/Throwball Director
Carter Huff, TN Founder, TN Reporter
Matt Johnson, TN Recruiting Director
Bob Leonard, NCAA T-Division President, VP of College Throwball
Brett Reddick, NTBL Commissioner
Jim Scott, Pac-12 Throwball Director
Jamie Williams, SEC Throwball Director
Pete Williams, ACC Throwball Director
Dylan Wilson, TN Reporter, Commissioner/Director of WTBL
Everything being discussed for change:
1.Expanded high school throwball nationals (16 teams-would begin 2022-2023 season)
Proposed Bracket (Dates in 2023):
March 6
1.
16.
8.
9.
March 6
5.
12.
4.
13.
March 7
6.
11.
3.
14.
March 7
7.
10.
2.
15.
(Round of 8 March 8-9)
(Final Four March 11)
(Championship March 13)
2.Edited bracket for Off-Season High School Regionals (would begin in 2021 off-season)
Proposed bracket for single region
(1 and 2 seeds get bye into round 2) (Dates for 2021)
Round 1
August 2-Game #1
8.
9.
August 2-Game #2
7.
10.
Round 2
August 3-Game #3
1.
8./9.
August 3-Game #4
4.
5.
August 3-Game #5
2.
7./10.
August 3-Game #6
3.
6.
Round 3
August 4-Game #7
Game #3 Winner
Game #4 Winner
August 4-Game #8
Game #5 Winner
Game #6 Winner
August 6, 7, 8 (If necessary, best two out of three game series)
Game #7 Winner
Game #8 Winner
Final Four/Championship Bracket Bracket
Final Four
August 10, 11, 12
Regional Winner
Regional Winner
August 10, 11, 12
Regional Winner
Regional Winner
Championship
August 14, 15, 16
Regional Winner/Regional Winner
Regional Winner/Regional Winner
3.NTBL Draft eligibility (currently players have to spend one year playing either college throwball, in the WTBL, or in the NTBL G-League, rule change would allow players to enter NTBL Draft right out of high school)
1.College Throwball will be moving on from the baseball format. Likely a college basketball format will be discussed and then voted on.
2.The one time transfer waiver to play immediately will be confirmed.
3.There will be a vote on if high School prospects will be able to go to the NTBL G-League and WTBL going along with the college throwball option.
4.High School throwball state tournaments will be expanded.
The “Foreign Throwball League” or more commonly called the “FTBL” was sold Sunday post on April 15 by the Director and Owner of the league D. Wilson. In this same post, my partner D. Wilson also announced the creation of the Canadian Throwball League or the “CTBL”. All details about the teams and alignment in the CTBL are in this post. As it says in the creation post (not the one with the alignment announced but the one in the first sentence of this article), the CTBL will likely gauge interest in creating WTBL leagues in Europe, Latin America and the rest of the world.
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CTBL Conferences and Divisions Confirmed
Western:
Pacific: Yukon 86ers(Whitehorse, YT), Vancouver BlackBears(Vancouver, BC), Victoria Mighty(Victoria, BC)
Middle Valley: Calgary Bulls(Calgary, AB), Edmonton Buffalo(Edmonton, AB), Yellowknife Indians(Yellowknife, NT)
Central: Saskatoon Moose(Saskatoon, SK), Regina Hunters(Regine, SK), Winnipeg Snow(Winnipeg, MB)
Eastern:
Island: Nova Scotia Lumberjacks(Halifax, NS), Prince Edward Island Kings(Charlottetown, PE), St.John’s Royals(St. John’s, NL)
North: Nunavut Eskimos(Iqaluit, NU), New Brunswick Fishermen(Moncton, NB), Fredericton Grizzlies(Fredericton, NB)
South: Quebec City Snowmen(Quebec City, QC) Montreal Frenchmen(Montreal, QC), Toronto Honeycombs(Toronto, ON)
As of 1:15 PM CST on Sunday, April 19, D.Wilson has announced the creation of a Canadian Throwball League. The League will include 18 teams, 1 from each Canadian Province and Territory plus extra teams in other large Canadian Cities. The FTBL is being sold and being turned into a small basketball league. Al FTBL players are getting the rest of their contracts upfront. There should be no worries as the players full contracts have been payed to them. There are also talks of a Latin American league. Canada should be proud to introduce the CTBL. Please expect rumors of the Latin American League soon. C.Huff and I will be having meetings about it. Thank You.
Dylan sits down in an online meeting with former ranked 10th foreign prospect. Alex Kupos’ rank slowly fell this season as he missed 15 games from a broken arm. He spoke about the issue saying he is healing and that his rankings will soon go back up. That was not the case for Alex as his ranking fell from 10th best foreign to not even top 50. He says he might go back to basketball after this due to the struggle of getting his rankings up. He has played 2 years in Athens, which is also the birthplace of his parents, before moving to London and giving birth to Alex. He wants to keep playing Throwball but feels it is not good for him as he thinks about playing basketball every day. Being only 19 he still has many years left,but he feels basketball would be best for him if he wants to succeed. He had college offers to play basketball before he moved to Athens to play in the FTBL. Alex says, “I want to get my family out of the place they are, I want to go to the NBA. I want to be the next person to rep basketball for Greece like Giannis. My agent and I spoke, there is a spot on the Maine Red Claws.”