Playoff Picture Boys Basketball Class 3A

Playoff Picture Boys Basketball Class 3A

The information to get this together was pulled from the RPI and latest league standings. I every hope to do this every Tuesday or Wednesday. I am using the league standing that I updated on Monday and the RPI I am using is straight from CHSAA as of Tuesday 1/31/2017

Class 3A

The playoff format for 3A goes as follows; Districts Determine own seeding Criteria for the district tournament, Seven Districts each qualify two teams to the state brackets, with the remaining 18 teams determined by RPI, Qualifiers advance to a 32 teams regional/state brackets where the districts champions plus the next highest RPI finisher will host the regions, Seven District Champions and the 1^st highest RPI qualifier will be placed on bracket in order 1-8 and will host the first round and sweet 16 games; seeds 9-32 will be placed on bracket in RPI, avoiding league/district opponents in the first round when possible, Seeds 24-32 may be moved to accommodate geographical considerations

League Champions/Automatic Qualifiers

Confluence League/Colorado 7: Weld Central

Frontier: DST-Stapleton

Intermountain: Alamosa

Metro: Kent Denver

Patriot: Resurrection Christian

Tri Peaks: Colorado Springs Christian

Western Slope: Basalt

First Highest RPI: Manitou Springs

Automatic Qualifier

DSST-Green Valley Ranch, Pinnacle, Bayfield, Lutheran, Sterling, Manitou Springs, Coal Ridge

At Large Teams

Vanguard, Rye, Jefferson Academy, Faith Christian, La Junta, Manual, Machebeuf, Roaring Fork, Buena Vista, Platte Valley, Montezuma-Cortez, Grand Valley, Colorado Academy, Eaton, University, Lamar, Academy, Pagosa Springs

First Four Out

Centauri, Delta, Frontier Academy, Brush

Top 8 seeds based on my Predictions and RPI:

#1 Resurrection Christian

#2 Colorado Springs Christian

#3 Manitou Springs

#4 Alamosa

#5 Kent Denver

#6 DST-Stapleton

#7 Basalt

#8 Weld Central

Remaining Seeds Based upon RPI: 9 Sterling, 10 Strasburg, 11 Vanguard, 12 Bayfield, 13 Lutheran, 14 Rye, 15 Jefferson Academy, 16 Faith Christian, 17 La Junta, 18 Manual, 19 Machebeuf, 20 Coal Ridge, 21 Roaring Fork, 22 Buena Vista, 23 Platte Valley, 24 Montezuma Cortez, 25 DSST-Green Valley Ranch, 26 Grand Valley, 27 Colorado Academy, 28 University, 29 Lamar, 30 Academy, 31 Pagosa Springs 32 Pinnacle

Bracket: Of Course district match ups will be avoided so seeding would be changed from 24-32

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Notes: If this is the final field of play you have 2 teams Weld Central and Pinnacle who are not even in the top 34 teams in RPI and Weld Central is #37 and would be hosting the first round of the playoffs. Notable teams left out are Brush, Centauri, and Aspen. Besides that I think the 32 teams that would be represented are pretty solid. You also have a few teams who get an automatic berth who are outside the top 20 like DSST-Green Valley Ranch but because of the format it will be interesting to see who makes it to the final 8. Remember the 1^st and 2^nd rounds are just regionals and the key is to make it the Final 8 played in Denver. Right now if I had to pick the 8 teams to make it State it would be: Resurrection Christian, Colorado Springs Christian, Manitou Springs, Alamosa, Kent Denver, DST-Stapleton, Basalt, and Sterling.