These are the projections for the 3A West bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA girls 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 West Girls Basketball Projection
Time of last update -- Saturday, Feb. 24 at 12:51 a.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.
Big South champ: Stuart W. Cramer
Big South 2nd place: South Point
Mid-Piedmont champ: Oak Grove
Mid-Piedmont 2nd place: North Davidson
Mid-State champ: Ben L. Smith
Mid-State 2nd place: Dudley
**Mountain Athletic champ: A.C. Reynolds
Mountain 7 champ: West Henderson
Mountain 7 2nd place: Pisgah
**Northwestern champ: Ashe County
**Queen City Athletic champ: West Charlotte
*Rocky River champ: Piedmont
South Piedmont champ: West Rowan
South Piedmont 2nd place: Northwest Cabarrus
South Piedmont 3rd place: Robinson
Western Foothills champ: East Lincoln
Western Foothills 2nd place: Hickory
*-Split conference with 2A schools — 1-seeds must have an overall win percentage of .500 or better OR finish in the top three in the conference standings 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 OR finish in the top three in the conference standings to be seeded with the 1-seeds, or else be seeded with the 2s and wild-cards.
Last five in, first five out
28. Central Davidson
29. Erwin
30. Forestview
31. Central Cabarrus
32. West Charlotte
1. Huss
2. East Rowan
3. Asheboro
4. Northeast Guilford
5. Smoky Mountain
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) A.C. Reynolds vs (32) West Charlotte
(16) Dudley vs (17) Crest
(8) West Henderson vs (25) South Point
(9) Piedmont vs (24) St. Stephens
(5) Ben L. Smith vs (28) Central Davidson
(12) Robinson vs (21) North Buncombe
(13) Pisgah vs (20) Rockingham County
(4) Oak Grove vs (29) Erwin
(3) East Lincoln vs (30) Forestview
(14) North Davidson vs (19) Freedom
(6) Stuart W. Cramer vs (27) Foard
(11) Hibriten vs (22) Hickory
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(7) Ashe County vs (26) Franklin
(10) North Iredell vs (23) Montgomery Central
(15) Northwest Cabarrus vs (18) North Lincoln
(2) West Rowan vs (31) Central Cabarrus
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