This year’s tournament field is comprised of THS, Bishop Ward, Bonner Springs, Eudora, Garden City, Gardner-Edgerton, Great Bend, Ottawa, Piper and Shawnee Mission Northwest.

The field is broken into two five-team pools. Tonganoxie is in Pool A alongside Gardner, Ottawa, Ward and Great Bend and will play its pool play matches in the east gymnasium. The five remaining teams are in Pool B and will play in the west gym.

There are five rounds of pool play matches beginning at 8 a.m. Each team will have one round off. There will be a 20-minute break at the end of the third round and a 30-minute lunch break at the end of the fifth round. Pool play matches will run ahead of schedule if possible.

The bracket schedule is set to begin at 2 p.m. Fifth-place finishers from each pool will play in the west gym, while fourth-place finishers and third-place finishers will play in the east gym.

When those rounds are concluded, the Pool A champion will play the Pool B runner-up and vice versa to decide the championship and consolation final matchups. Both finals round matches are set for 4 p.m.

The Chieftains will try to improve on last year’s tournament performance, in which they went 2-3 and finished sixth. There will be a new tournament champion this season, as 2013 champ Olathe East is absent from the field. OEHS defeated Great Bend in the championship match a year go.

Tournament updates will be available throughout the day on The Mirror’s Facebook and Twitter pages. Use the hashtag #MirrorSports to join the conversation on Twitter.