These are the projections for the 3A East bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA girls soccer playoffs.
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3A East Girls Soccer Projection
Time of last update -- Wednesday, Apr. 10 at 1:12 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: Triton
**All American 2nd place: Harnett Central
**Big Carolina champ: Jacksonville
*Big East 1-seed: Northern Nash
Central champ: Western Alamance
Central 2nd place: Southern Alamance
Coastal champ: Dixon
Coastal 2nd place: West Carteret
**Mideastern 1-seed: South Brunswick
*Northeastern Coastal 1-seed: Currituck County
*Northern Lakes champ: Carrboro
Quad County champ: Hunt
Quad County 2nd place: Fike
**Sandhills 1-seed: Lee County
**United 8 1-seed: Cape Fear
*-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. Northside - Jacksonville
29. Eastern Alamance
30. West Brunswick
31. Durham School of the Arts
32. Smithfield-Selma
1. Southern Lee
2. Terry Sanford
3. Williams
4. Western Harnett
5. Havelock
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Western Alamance vs (32) Smithfield-Selma
(16) West Carteret vs (17) Orange
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(8) Currituck County vs (25) C.B. Aycock
(9) Northern Nash vs (24) Croatan
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(5) Carrboro vs (28) Northside - Jacksonville
(12) Fike vs (21) Southern Nash
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(13) J.H. Rose vs (20) West Johnston
(4) Dixon vs (29) Eastern Alamance
(3) Lee County vs (30) West Brunswick
(14) Cedar Ridge vs (19) First Flight
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(6) Hunt vs (27) Harnett Central
(11) South Brunswick vs (22) Richlands
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(7) Triton vs (26) Franklinton
(10) Cape Fear vs (23) Swansboro
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(15) Southern Alamance vs (18) Union Pines
(2) Jacksonville vs (31) Durham School of the Arts
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