District tournaments take place next week as Class 2A Boys’ basketball teams look for advancement into regionals. Official pairings won’t be released until the regular season winds down this Saturday but we took a shot at predicting the bracket in all eight tournaments.
These are projections only and based on league standings and RPI numbers from February 11th. In a few cases, we needed to predict winners of some important games set for this week. We’ll post official pairings of all brackets when released and of course track results through the playoffs.
NOTE: We updated District 4 pairings to reflect a different bracket where the top two seeds earn byes to the semifinals.
CLASS 2A PROJECTIONS
DISTRICT 1
#1 Sanford – BYE
#4 Center vs #5 South Park
#2 Del Norte vs #7 Custer County
#3 Sargent vs #6 Crested Butte
DISTRICT 2
#1 Yuma – BYE
#4 Wray vs #5 Holyoke
#3 Sedgwick County vs #6 Wiggins
#2 Akron – BYE
DISTRICT 3
#1 Mancos – BYE
#4 Ridgway vs #5 Dolores
#3 Telluride – BYE
#2 Ignacio – BYE
DISTRICT 4
#1 Limon – Bye to semifinals
First Round: #9 Denver Academy vs #8 Platte Canyon – winner meets #5 Burlington in Game 2
Second Round: Game 2 winner vs #4 Clear Creek – winner meets #1 Limon
#2 Denver Christian – bye to semifinals
Second Round: #6 Lotus School vs #7 Front Range Christian – winner meets #3 Byers
DISTRICT 5
#1 Vail Christian (plays winner of #8 Vail Mountain vs #9 Rangely)
#4 Soroco vs #5 Meeker
#3 Paonia (plays winner of #6 West Grand vs #11 Caprock Academy)
#2 Plateau Valley (plays winner of #7 Hotchkiss vs #10 Hayden)
DISTRICT 6
Holly (plays winner of Hoehne vs Las Animas)
John Mall vs Crowley County
Rocky Ford vs Swallows Charter
Fowler (plays winner of Swink vs Rye)
DISTRICT 7
#1 Highland (plays winner of #8 Loveland Classical Academy vs #9 Union Colony)
#4 Gilpin County vs #5 Lyons
#3 Dayspring Christian vs #6 Dawson
#2 Heritage Christian vs #7 Twin Peaks Charter
DISTRICT 8
#1 Peyton vs #8 Fountain Valley
#4 Thomas MacLaren vs #5 Colorado Springs School
#3 Dolores Huerta vs #6 Calhan
#2 Simla vs #7 Miami Yoder
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2A District 8 is in an interesting situation.
There is a 3 way tie for 1st place between Peyton, Simla, and Dolores Huerta.
The tie breaker to determining the #1 Seed will be the RPI. As of this morning (2-13-19) Simla was 0.001 points of Peyton. The 2 and 3 seeds will be determined with the Head to Head. Example Dolores Huerta beat Peyton.
If the current RIP hold through Sunday it will go:
#1 Simla
#2 Dolores Huerta
#3 Peyton
Yep – they will change daily with RPI – when we put the pairings together on Monday – Peyton had the highest RPI. That’s why they were placed #1 in our projected pairings.