Class 3A Boys & Girls Basketball, How to make it to District, Regionals, and State & District Alignment

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Class 3A Boys & Girls Basketball, How to make it to District, Regionals, and State & District Alignment

We take a quick look at how to Qualify for the Regional and State Tournaments. At the bottom we quickly review the changes to the Districts.

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Districts/Regionals/State:

1. Identical format for Boys & Girls

2. Districts must unanimously agree prior to the season on their own seeding criteria. If agreement cannot be met, District seeding will be done by the CHSAA Seeding & Selection Index (50% Maxpreps & 50% RPI). Maxpreps and RPI will run through Districts.

3. District winners (8) advancing to the 32-team state bracket. District champions are guaranteed a top 8 (host slot) as long as they are in the top 16 of the CHSAA Seeding & Selection Index after Districts.

4. Remaining 24 teams are filled in by the CHSAA Seeding & Selection index published after Districts. Any team moved up to the 1-8 slots if a District winner is not in the top 16 will be true seeded 1-8.

5. Seeding criteria for the 32-team state bracket-CHSAA Seeding & Selection Index published after Districts. Seeds 9-16 are true seeded except to try and avoid league matchups in the FIRST ROUND ONLY. Teams may be moved one spot up or down. Teams 17-32 may be moved up to two spots based upon geography and league/district matchups.

6. First two rounds of the state tournament (Regionals) will be hosted by the top seed in the quadrant of the bracket, over two days. (4-teams total).

7. Teams will NOT be reseeded prior to the final week-state championships (Final 8)

8. Top 8 teams will advance. Class 3A Great 8 will play a modified consolation bracket. Teams losing on Thursday will not advance to Friday.

Class 3A Districts/Leagues

Metro-Conf-LP	3A Frontier	IM-SJ-SP	Black Forest-Santa Fe
Forge Christian	Bennett	Bayfield	Fountain Valley
Lotus School	Bruce Randolph	Centauri	Peyton
Manual	Jefferson (Girls)	Crested Butte	Rocky Ford
Prospect Ridge	KIPP Denver	Ignacio	Thomas MacLaren
Stargate School	Lake County	Montezuma-Cortez
St. Mary’s Academy (Girls)	Pinnacle Charter
William Smith (Boys)	Platte Canyon
Yuma	Sheridan (G-JV)

Patriot	Tri-Peaks	Western Slope	Mile High-Foothills
Brush	Atlas Prep	Aspen (Girls)	Machebeuf
Estes Park	Banning Lewis	Cedaredge	Clear Creek
Frontier Academy	Buena Vista	Grand Valley	Dawson School
Highland	C.S Christian	Gunnison	Lyons
Liberty Common	Ellicott	Meeker	SkyView Academy
Platte Valley	Florence	North Fork	Windsor Charter
Strasburg	James Irwin (Girls)	Olathe
Timnath	Rye	Roaring Fork
Wellington	Salida
	St. Mary’s
	Vanguard
	Woodland Park