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 from Maxpreps.com I pulled the information on Monday and the RPI I am using is straight from CHSAA as of Tuesday 2/7/2017
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 1st 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: DSST-Green Valley Ranch
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
Weld Central, Academy, Bayfield, Manual, Sterling, Manitou Springs, Coal Ridge
At Large Teams
Strasburg, Vanguard, Faith Christian, La Junta, Lutheran, Jefferson Academy, Machebeuf, Rye, Roaring Fork, Platte Valley, Grand Valley, Buena Vista, Delta, Montezuma-Cortez, Colorado Academy, University, Frontier Academy, Pagosa Springs
First Four Out
Pinnacle, Eaton, Centauri, Salida
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 Strasburg, 10 Vanguard, 11 Sterling, 12 Faith Christian, 13 La Junta, 14 Bayfield, 15 Lutheran, 16 Jefferson Academy, 17 Manual, 18 Coal Ridge, 19 Machebeuf, 20 Rye, 21 Roaring Fork, 22 Academy, 23 Platte Valley, 24 Grand Valley, 25 Buena Vista, 26 Delta, 27 Montezuma-Cortez, 28 Colorado Academy, 29 University, 30 Frontier Academy, 31 Pagosa Springs, 32 Weld Central
Bracket: Of Course district match ups will be avoided so seeding would be changed from 24-32.
Notes: With the new updated league standing only 1 team is now outside the top 32 teams and that is Weld Central who is at #40. Also giving a home game to the winner of the confluence league also is interesting granted that DSST-Green Valley wins the league they are #30 in the RPI and are taking a home game way from either Strasburg, Sterling, or Vanguard. The final 8 teams if the bracket falls the way it does will be: #1 Resurrection Christian, #2 Colorado Springs Christian, #3 Manitou Springs, #4 Alamosa, #5 Kent Denver, #11 Sterling, #7 Basalt, #9 Strasburg
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