These are the projections for the 4A 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.
4A East Boys Basketball Projection
Time of last update -- Friday, Feb. 16 at 2:50 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 1-seed: Overhills
*Big Carolina 1-seed: New Bern
Cap-6 champ: Cardinal Gibbons
Cap-6 2nd place: Sanderson
DAC-VI champ: Chapel Hill
DAC-VI 2nd place: Riverside-Durham
Greater Neuse River champ: Garner
Greater Neuse River 2nd place: Clayton
*Mideastern champ: New Hanover
Northern Athletic champ: Millbrook
Northern Athletic 2nd place: Knightdale
*Sandhills champ: Richmond
Southwest Wake champ: Green Level
Southwest Wake 2-seed: Panther Creek
*United 8 1-seed: Lumberton
*-Split conference with 3A 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. South View
29. Jack Britt
30. Pine Forest
31. Northern Durham
32. Broughton
1. East Chapel Hill
2. Middle Creek
3. Ashley
4. Leesville Road
5. Willow Spring
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) New Hanover vs (32) Broughton
(16) Riverside-Durham vs (17) South Garner
(8) Lumberton vs (25) Hoggard
(9) New Bern vs (24) Sanderson
(5) Garner vs (28) South View
(12) Panther Creek vs (21) Jordan
(13) Clayton vs (20) Apex Friendship
(4) Millbrook vs (29) Jack Britt
(3) Green Level vs (30) Pine Forest
(14) Wakefield vs (19) Holly Springs
(6) Chapel Hill vs (27) Southeast Raleigh
(11) Laney vs (22) Hoke County
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(7) Cardinal Gibbons vs (26) Heritage
(10) Overhills vs (23) Pinecrest
(15) Knightdale vs (18) Hillside
(2) Richmond vs (31) Northern Durham
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