These are the projections for the 3A East bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA boys basketball playoffs.
These projections are not official and can change when the official brackets are released by the N.C. High School Athletic Association. However, these projections are accurate as of the time stamp below.
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RPI changes as new data is entered into MaxPreps, meaning teams could fall in and out of the projections based on who has entered what games.
For more on the NCHSAA's playoff process, read Nick Stevens' column here.
3A East Boys Basketball Projection
Time of last update -- Friday, Feb. 16 at 2:57 p.m.
Note: Where there is a currently-unbreakable tie for an automatic bid, we are using RPI (which is how the NCHSAA breaks ties that cannot be done by head-to-head or "best win").
Conference champs are in bold. Conference champs who would not be seeded as conference champs if the playoffs began today are in bold italics.
**All American champ: Westover
**All American 2nd place: Triton
**Big Carolina champ: South Central
*Big East champ: Northern Nash
Central champ: Orange
Central 2nd place: Eastern Alamance
Coastal champ: Swansboro
Coastal 2nd place: White Oak
**Mideastern 1-seed: North Brunswick
*Northeastern Coastal 1-seed: First Flight
*Northern Lakes champ: Southern Durham
Quad County champ: East Wake
Quad County 2nd place: Hunt
**Sandhills 1-seed: Southern Lee
**United 8 champ: Seventy-First
*-Split conference with 2A schools — 1-seeds must have an overall win percentage of .500 or better to be seeded with the 1-seeds, or else be seeded with the 2s and wild-cards.
**-Split conference with 4A schools — 1-seeds must have an overall win percentage of .500 or better to be seeded with the 1-seeds, or else be seeded with the 2s and wild-cards.
Last five in, first five out
28. Scotland
29. Havelock
30. Franklinton
31. Richlands
32. Durham School of the Arts
1. Union Pines
2. Cape Fear
3. Southern Nash
4. Northside - Jacksonville
5. Southern Wayne
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Swansboro vs (32) Durham School of the Arts
(16) Eastern Alamance vs (17) West Carteret
(8) Northern Nash vs (25) C.B. Aycock
(9) First Flight vs (24) E.E. Smith
(5) Southern Lee vs (28) Scotland
(12) White Oak vs (21) Southern Alamance
(13) Jacksonville vs (20) Person
(4) Seventy-First vs (29) Havelock
(3) Southern Durham vs (30) Franklinton
(14) Croatan vs (19) Hunt
(6) South Central vs (27) Carrboro
(11) Orange vs (22) Williams
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(7) North Brunswick vs (26) West Brunswick
(10) East Wake vs (23) Currituck County
(15) Triton vs (18) J.H. Rose
(2) Westover vs (31) Richlands
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