If the Playoffs Started Today Boys Basketball Class 3A

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The First official RPI has been released and with that State Tournament speculation can begin. Like I did last year every week I will post my “If the Playoff Started Today”. This really give a more in depth look at were and teams could end up. Of course, a few assumptions will have to be made. For Class 3A Boys I will be using league standings to pick my 2 automatic qualifiers. For the rest of the selections the RPI will be used according to the CHSAA bulletin.

If the Playoffs Started Today 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 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, District Champions must finish in the Top 16 to host!

League Champions

Confluence League: DSST-Green Valley Ranch (37) (Will Not Host)

Frontier: DST-Stapleton (12)

Intermountain: Alamosa (1)

Metro: Kent Denver (7)

Patriot: Sterling (2)

Tri Peaks: Vanguard (3)

Western Slope: Coal Ridge (5)

First Highest RPI: Manual (4)

Automatic Qualifier

Lotus School, Arrupe Jesuit, Bayfield, Manual, Platte Valley, Colorado Springs Christian, Roaring Fork

At Large Teams

Grand Valley, Strasburg, La Junta, Cedaredge, Resurrection Christian, Faith Christian, Colorado Academy, Centauri, Lutheran, Delta, Manitou Springs, Estes Park, Pagosa Springs, The Academy, Olathe, Montezuma-Cortez, Jefferson, Atlas Prep

First Four Out

Brush, Frontier Academy, St. Mary’s, Pinnacle

Top 8 seeds based on my Predictions and RPI:

#1 Alamosa

#2 Sterling

#3 Vanguard

#4 Manual

#5 Coal Ridge

#6 Platte Valley

#7 Kent Denver

#8 DSST-Stapleton

Remaining Seeds Based upon RPI:
9 Grand Valley, 10 Strasburg, 11 La Junta, 12 Arrupe Jesuit, 13 Bayfield, 14 Cedaredge, 15 Resurrection Christian, 16 Faith Christian, 17 Centauri, 18 Roaring Fork 19 Colorado Academy, 20 Lutheran, 21 Manitou Springs, 22 La Junta, 23 Colorado Springs Christian, 24 Estes Park, 25 Pagosa Springs, 26 The Academy, 27 Olathe, 28 Montezuma-Cortez, 29 Jefferson, 30 Atlas Prep, 31 DSST-Green Valley Ranch, 32 Lotus School

Bracket: District Matchups will be avoided in first round and 24-32 can be moved due to geography. I will not move teams due to geography this week and will look more into that next week. Also no consolation bracket will be played only Championship and 3^rd place game.

Bracket

*#1 Alamosa vs #32 Lotus School

#16 Faith Christian vs #17 Centauri

*#8 DST-Stapleton vs #25 Pagosa Springs

#9 Grand Valley vs #24 Estes Park

*#5 Coal Ridge vs #28 Montezuma-Cortez

#12 Arrupe Jesuit vs 21 Manitou Springs

*#4 Manual vs #29 Jefferson

#13 Bayfield vs #20 Lutheran

*#2 Sterling vs #31 DSST-Green Valley Ranch

#15 Resurrection Christian vs #18 Roaring Fork

*#7 Kent Denver vs #26 The Academy