If The Playoffs Started Today 10-27

One week to go, and while most of the playoff spots are still up for grabs there are a handful of teams that already know where they will be in the bracket. Here is a look at the playoffs if the season ended today. A couple notes:

-Tiebreakers are broken where possible, mostly if the teams have already played head-to-head. If tiebreakers are not possible there will be multiple teams in one spot.

-RPI ranking is relative to the Upper State team pool, not the entire division (ex. Spartanburg is listed #7 in RPI relative to the rest of the Upper State, even though they are #25 in all of 5A Division 1)

-In 5A, the top half of each region is seeded first (top 4 in Regions 1-3 and 5, top 3 in Region 4). The remainder of the bracket is seeded based on RPI exclusively.

5A – DIVISION 1

Byes

• 1 Dutch Fork: Region 4 – #1, RPI 1st
• 2 Dorman: Region 2 – #1, RPI 2nd
• 3 Ridge View: Region 5 – #2
• 4 Byrnes: Region 2 – #3, RPI 4th

First Round

• 5 Rock Hill: Region 3 – #3, RPI 5th
• 6 Clover: Region 3 – #4, RPI 6th
• 7 Spartanburg: Region 2 – #4, RPI 7th
• 8 Mauldin: RPI 8th
• 9 Boiling Springs: RPI 9th
• 10 Blythewood: RPI 10th
• 11 Spring Valley: RPI 11th
• 12 J.L. Mann: RPI 12th

Out

• Wade Hampton

5A – DIVISION 2

Byes

• 1 Northwestern: Region 3 – #1, RPI 1st
• 2 TL Hanna: Region 1 – #1, RPI 3rd
• 3 Indian Land: Region 3 – #2, RPI 2nd
• 4 Greenwood: Region 1 – #2, RPI 4th

First Round

• 5 Gaffney: Region 2 – #2, RPI 5th
• 6 Hillcrest: Region 1 – #3 (Tiebreaker: H2H win v Greenville)
• 7 Greenville: Region 1 – #4, RPI 6th
• 8 Nation Ford: Region 3 – #4 (Tiebreaker: H2H win v Catawba Ridge), RPI 8th
• 9 Catawba Ridge: Can’t be a lower seed than Fort Mill because of regular season finish
• 10 Fort Mill
• 11 Riverside: RPI 11th
• 12 Eastside: RPI 12th

Out

• Woodmont
• Easley

4A

Seeds 1-3 – 1st place team from each region, seeded by RPI.

• South Pointe #1
• Daniel #2
• Wren #6 (Tied with Westside for 1st in Region 1, play on 10/31)

Seeds 4-6 – 2nd place team from each region, seeded by RPI.

• Seneca #3
• Camden #4
• Westside #7 (Tied with Wren for 1st in Region 1, play on 10/31)

Seeds 7-9 – 3rd place team from each region, seeded by RPI.

• A.C Flora #5
• Fountain Inn #8
• Greer #11

Seeds 10-12 – 4th place team from each region, seeded by RPI

• Emerald #9
• Blue Ridge #10
• York #12

Seeds 13-14 – 5th place team from regions 2 and 3, seeded by RPI

• Lancaster #13
• Pickens #15

Seed 15 – Upper State At-Large

• Dreher #14

Seed 16 – Overall State At-Large

3A

• Crescent/Pendleton: Tied for 2nd in Region 1, play on 10/31, winner home vs Union County, loser away at Broome/Chapman winner. 
• Broome/Chapman: Tied for 3rd in Region 3, play on 10/31, winner home vs. Crescent/Pendleton loser, loser away at Southside Christian

2A

• Andrew Jackson/Central/North Central: All tied for 1st in Region 4, region champion hosts Pelion. 
  • 10/17: Andrew Jackson beat Central 21-20
  • 10/24: North Central beat Andrew Jackson 17-7
  • 10/31: Central @ North Central