With a slow week of games I figured this is a great time to show how each classifications State Tournament works.
Some changes were made to the State Tournament format mainly for Class 2A. What I am doing is using the RPI data I have saved from 1/27/2017 and the league standing associated with the date. Remember this is not a prediction on how the leagues or who will qualify for state. I will be doing Predictions for League next week. The first 2018 RPI is released 1/16/2018 and I will use a similar format to post an State Tournament Picture every week and as the season winds down I will make more predictions on who will get into the State Tournament.
Looking at this post right under Class 3A is the exact words used by CHSAA to determine Playoff Format.
Playoff Picture Boys Basketball Class 3A
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
Confluence League: 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, Faith Christian, Sterling, Manitou Springs, Coal Ridge
At Large Teams
Vanguard, Strasburg, La Junta, Lutheran, Rye, Manual, Jefferson Academy, Buena Vista, Roaring Fork, Machebeuf, Platte Valley, Montezuma-Cortez, Pagosa Springs, Delta, Eaton, Colorado Academy, Grand Valley, Brush
Top 8 seeds based on 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 Vanguard, 11 Strasburg, 12 Faith Christian, 13 La Junta, 14 Lutheran, 15 Bayfield, 16 Rye, 17 Manual, 18 Jefferson Academy, 19 Buena Vista, 20 Roaring Fork, 21 Coal Ridge, 22 Machebeuf, 23 Platte Valley, 24 Montezuma Cortez, 25 DSST-Green Valley, 26 Pagosa Springs, 27 Delta, 28 Eaton, 29 Colorado Academy, 30 Grand Valley, 31 Eaton, 32 Pinnacle
Bracket: Of Course district match ups will be avoided so seeding would be changed from 24-32.
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