NCHSAA 3A/2A/1A East Boys Lacrosse Playoff Projection - 2024
These are the projections for the 3A/2A/1A East bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA boys lacrosse playoffs.
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3A/2A/1A East Boys Lacrosse Projection
Time of last update -- Saturday, Apr. 27 at 4:37 p.m.
Automatic bids
- 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 Carolina/Northeastern Coastal 1-seed: First Flight
Central/Mid-Carolina champ: Orange
Central/Mid-Carolina second place: Seaforth
Central/Mid-Carolina third place: Western Alamance
Coastal champ: Croatan
*DC 6/Northern Lakes 1-seed: Carrboro
*Mideastern 1-seed: South Brunswick
*Northern Athletic 1-seed: Fike
Triangle North/Northern Lakes champ: Yoyager
*United 8/All American/Sandhills 1-seed: Union Pines
*-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
In:
15. Terry Sanford
16. Northside - Jacksonville
17. Southern Alamance
18. West Brunswick
19. West Carteret
20. Fike
Out:
1. Jacksonville
2. Eastern Alamance
3. Havelock
4. Cape Fear
5. North Brunswick
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Orange vs (32) BYE
(16) Northside - Jacksonville vs (17) Southern Alamance
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(8) Seaforth vs (25) BYE
(9) Western Alamance vs (24) BYE
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(5) South Brunswick vs (28) BYE
(12) Williams vs (21) BYE
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(13) Swansboro vs (20) Fike
(4) Carrboro vs (29) BYE
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(3) First Flight vs (30) BYE
(14) Cedar Ridge vs (19) West Carteret
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(6) Union Pines vs (27) BYE
(11) Northwood vs (22) BYE
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(7) Voyager vs (26) BYE
(10) J.H. Rose vs (23) BYE
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(15) Terry Sanford vs (18) West Brunswick
(2) Croatan vs (31) BYE
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