Playoff Picture Girls 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. (NOTE: this was done before the game played last night)
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: Eagle Ridge Academy
Frontier: Academy
Intermountain: Centauri
Metro: Faith Christian
Patriot: Sterling
Tri Peaks: St. Mary’s
Western Slope: Grand Valley
First Highest RPI: Liberty Common
Automatic Qualifier
Weld Central, Bennett, Pagosa Springs, Lutheran, Liberty Common, Lamar, Moffat County
At Large Teams
Olathe, Cedaredge, Manitou Springs, Eaton, Monte Vista, Resurrection Christian, Brush, St. Mary’s Academy, Kent Denver, Trinidad, Colorado Academy, Jefferson Academy, Delta, Buena Vista, Strasburg, Florence, Gunnison,
First Four Out
Bayfield, Middle Park, Alamosa, University,
Top 8 seeds based on my Predictions and RPI:
#1 St. Mary’s
#2 Sterling
#3 Liberty Common
#4 Centauri
#5 Faith Christian
#6 Academy
#7 Grand Valley
#8 Eagle Ridge Academy
Remaining Seeds Based upon RPI: 9 Lamar, 10 Pagosa Springs, 11 Olathe, 12 Colorado Springs Christian, 13 Cedaredge, 14 Manitou Springs, 15 Eaton, 16 Monte Vista, 17 Lutheran 18 Resurrection Christian, 19 Brush, 20 St. Mary’s Academy, 21 Kent Denver, 22 Trinidad, 23 Colorado Academy, 24 Moffat County, 25 Jefferson Academy, 26 Delta, 27 Buena Vista, 28 Strasburg, 29 Bennett, 30 Florence, 31 Gunnison, 32 Weld Central
Bracket: Of Course district match ups will be avoided so seeding would be changed from 24-32.
Notes: After last week’s play some of the seeding was moved around but still I see a ton of upsets possibly happening in the second round of play due to certain league being so tough. The Confluence/Colorado 7 league champion will probably be outside the top 40 RPI. #22 Academy gets a home game as does #14 Grand Valley. Those 3 schools are taking home games from Lamar and Pagosa Springs and Colorado Springs Christian. The 8 schools I think will make it to state as of right now are: #1 St. Mary’s, #2 Sterling, #3 Liberty Common, #4 Centauri, #12 Colorado Springs Christian, #11 Olathe, #10 Pagosa Springs #9 Lamar
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