These are the projections for the 4A West bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA softball playoffs.
The 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. Subscribe to email alerts to be notified when projections are updated. We also recommend bookmarking this page.
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4A West Softball Projection
Time of last update -- Wednesday, Apr. 17 at 10:11 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.
Central Piedmont champ: Reagan
Central Piedmont 2nd place: West Forsyth
Greater Metro champ: Mooresville
Greater Metro 2-seed: Hickory Ridge
Metro champ: Northwest Guilford
Metro 2nd place: Southwest Guilford
*Mountain Athletic champ: McDowell
*Northwestern champ: South Caldwell
*Queen City Athletic champ: Hough
Southwestern champ: Butler
Southwestern 2-seed: Independence
So. Meck champ: Myers Park
So. Meck 2nd place: South Mecklenburg
Southern Carolina champ: Weddington
*-Split conference with 3A 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. Charlotte Catholic
29. Southeast Guilford
30. Hopewell
31. South Iredell
32. T.C. Roberson
1. Palisades
2. Glenn
3. Sun Valley
4. A.L. Brown
5. Page
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) South Caldwell vs (32) T.C. Roberson
(16) Davie vs (17) Southwest Guilford
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(8) Hough vs (25) Cox Mill
(9) Butler vs (24) Watauga
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(5) McDowell vs (28) Charlotte Catholic
(12) Marvin Ridge vs (21) East Forsyth
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(13) Hickory Ridge vs (20) South Mecklenburg
(4) Northwest Guilford vs (29) Southeast Guilford
(3) Weddington vs (30) Hopewell
(14) West Forsyth vs (19) Cuthbertson
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(6) Reagan vs (27) Ardrey Kell
(11) Porter Ridge vs (22) Mallard Creek
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(7) Myers Park vs (26) Providence
(10) Alexander Central vs (23) Northern Guilford
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(15) Lake Norman vs (18) Independence
(2) Mooresville vs (31) South Iredell
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