The Prep Beat

Basketball playoffs start Monday.
It begins with Bainbridge and the Metro League tournament. The boys will assure their spot in the tournament with a win Friday against Chief Sealth at home Friday. You can find the Metro League tournament bracket here. The Bainbridge girls won the Sound Division and take the No. 4 seed into the Metro tourney. They’ll play Tuesday. Here’s that bracket.
Here’s the SeaKing District bracket.
The Narrows League has three more games in the regular season. Three of the four playoff spots for the boys and girls are spoken for. A key game for the fourth boys spot is tonight as South Kitsap is at Gig Harbor.
The dates for the West Central District tournament (for all classes) can be found here, and here are the potential sites. Here’s the Class 4A bracket.
Bremerton has a complicated formula for reaching the playoffs. By my math (which is untrustworthy enough, let alone how this formula seems to change often and without notice), the Bremerton boys match up as the No. 2 or 3 team with the Seamount League teams taking the top two spots (Kennedy, Hazen and Highline are the 3A teams in the 3A/2A Seamount). Kennedy is the clear No. 1, but it’s close between Hazen and Bremerton. The third seed gets to avoid a loser-out game in the first round at districts. The No. 3 team gets a tough draw as the Knights would play the third team from the rugged 3A Narrows.
The girls are sitting in the No. 2 spot with the Seamount League heading into the district tournament.
Onto the 2As. The top five 2A schools in the Olympic League make the West Central sub-district tournament, which begins Feb. 9.
Here’s a bracket for it, but it would be easier to decode the Rosetta Stone, so I’ll break it down for you.
The top three boys (Kingston, Port Angeles and Sequim) and girls (Kingston, Port Angeles and either North Kitsap or Olympic) earn automatic berths into the district tournament and play for seeding at the sub-district tourney. The fourth and fifth teams (Olympic and Klahowya for the boys and North Kitsap/Olympic and Klahowya for the girls) have to play loser-out games to make districts.
Here’s the 2A district bracket for boys and girls.
Onto the 1As. The Chimacum boys are in good shape to qualify for the Tri-District tournament. The are in fourth place in the Nisqually League. Top four are automatically in and fifth place has a play-in game. Here’s the bracket. The Port Townsend girls are also in good shape for the Tri-District tournament.
Crosspoint is also sitting in a good place to make the Class 2B Bi-District tournament.
What about after districts?
Remember the WIAA is again doing regional format for the first round. It’s been altered this year as all first-round games are double-elimination. Last year, as you may remember, the higher seeds played in a loser-out game. That enabled Kingston, which lost to Burlington-Edison in the first round, to come back and finish third at state.
You can find the regional sites here.

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