4A West

Conference Tournament upsets

The 3 and 4 seeds are in the finals of the SW4A tournament. This will change the seeding of the bracket for these teams. Finals on Monday.

Watauga is into the finals in the NW4A. A win for the Pioneers in the finals lands them a number 2 seed. Finals on Saturday.

 

MECA 7

North Meck and Hopewell are MECA 7 Conference Co-Champions and will play again Monday night at 7:00 pm at Mallard Creek to decide the #1 seed for the playoffs.

 

5/3 update

4A West Bracket as of 6:00 pm 5/3

Wild Card team and assignments are just a guess based upon geographical placement while avoiding facing a team from the same league (even though the handbook says that two teams from the same league can be paired in the first round)

SW #1 Ardrey Kell
Wild Card – Mallard Creek

NW #2 East Burke
Metro #4 Greensboro Page

MECA #1 North Meck/Hopewell**
Wild Card – RJ Reynolds

QC #2 Garinger
CPC #4 Davie

CPC #1 North Davidson
SW #5 Butler

BS #2 Crest
MECA #4 Central Cabarrus

Metro #1 East Forsyth
MIDSE #5 Fayetteville Byrd

NW #3 Watauga
Queen City #3 Harding

MECA #2 Hopewell/North Meck**
NW #4 Alexander Central

Metro #3 NW Gilford/Greensboro Grimsley****
SW #3 Providence/Myers Park***

BS #1 East Gaston
Wild Card – AC Reynolds

CPC #2 West Forsyth/Mt. Tabor*****
SW #4 Weddington/Providence***

NW #1 South Caldwell
Wild Card - Ashbrook

Metro #2 Greensboro Grimsley/NW Gilford****
CPC #3 Mount Tabor/West Forsyth*****

QC #1 West Meck
Wild Card - South Meck

SW #2 Myers Park/Weddington***
MECA #3 JM Robinson

** MECA - Winner of Monday’s play off between Hopewell/NM will be number 1 seed, loser number 2.
*** SW4A - Monday - If MP wins the tournament they will be 2 seed, Providence 3 seed, Weddington 4 seed; Weddington wins, they will be 2 seed, MP 3 seed, Providence 4 seed.
**** Metro – Monday – NW Gilford wins they will be 2 seed, G’Grimsley will be 3 seed.
***** CPC – Monday – Mt. Tabor wins will be 2 seed, West Forsyth will be 3 seed



Wild Cards:

• AC Reynolds 15-8 .652 winning percentage
• Ashbrook 11-11 .500 WP(2 games remaining)
• RJ Reynolds 10-14 .417 WP
• Mallard Creek 8-12 .400 WP
• South Meck 9-16 .360 WP

SW4A
1.Ardrey Kell 22-4
2. Myers Park 20-5$
3. Providence 17-8
4. Weddington 18-7$
5. Butler 13-10
6. South Meck 9-16
7. East Meck 3-17
8. Independence 5-16

METRO
1. East Forsyth 19-4
2. Greensboro Grimsley 17-6
3. NW Gilford 17-7$
4. Page 5-13
5. High Point Central
6. Smith

NW4A
1. South Caldwell 20-1
2. East Burke 14-8
3. Watauga 16-9
4. Alexander Central 10-12
5. AC Reynolds 15-8
6. McDowell 7-17
7. Freedom 1-23

Big South
1. East Gaston 14-8
2. Ashbrook 14-7
3. Crest 11-11


CPC
1. North Davidson 18-3
2. West Forsyth 16-8
3. Mt. Tabor 12-10$
4. Davie 15-8
4. RJ Reynolds 10-14
6. North Forsyth 5-15

Queen City
1. West Meck
2. Garinger
3. Harding
4. Berry


MECA
1. Hopewell 21-3$
1. North Meck 17-4$
3. Robinson (8-4)
4. Central Cabarrus 10-11
5. Mallard Creek 8-12
6. West Charlotte (2-10)
7. Vance (0-12)


$ Playing for Conference Tournament title

 

Why would Providence drop from a 2 seed to a 4 seed?

People have asked how Providence could drop from a possible 2 seed to a possible 4 seed.

Providence finished the regular conference season tied with Myers Park at 10-4 in the SW4A and the two teams had split their games. Providence was awarded the second seed in the conference tournament based up the NCHSAA tie breaking procedure (they beat Weddington twice while MP split with Weddington as the worked their way down the standings comparing how each team did against the first place team, then second etc). This seed was only for the conference tournament.

The two teams (MP/P) meet for a third time in the tournament which MP won. This meeting will now be used to break the tie between the two schools for state play off seeding, so essentially at that point, MP is two and Providence three.

Weddington now in the finals can claim the SW4A 2 seed with a win. If this happens Weddington will move to 2, MP will move down one spot to 3, and Providence will drop one place to 4.

If MP wins, MP will stay at 2, P-3, and Weddington will hold at 4.

 

NW4A Championship Final

South Caldwell over Watauga.

East Burke will keep the 2 seed, Watauge stays at 3.

 

No matter how the seedings shake out, there will be some very good opening games...ripe for possible upsets. And there will be a few snoozers.

Something that jumps out are the records. It was just a few years ago where South Meck had a 20-5 record and missed the playoffs. This year they are 9-16 and are in the hunt. I'm not saying this is bad; It's just different.

 

So looking down the road a little bit...how about a possible round 3 match up of Tyler Hanover and North Davidson facing off at the school he transfered from with Ryan Dull and East Forsyth...now tell me there wont be some emotions if that game happens!!

 

Wild cards

MINCMI
Are the 5 wildcard teams locked in? Any possibility that one of them could be knocked out by another team?

 

Here is what I have for the others:

SW4A: Independence 5-16; East Meck 3-17
NW4A: McDowell 7-17; Freedom 1-23
CPC: North Forsyth 5-15

The others are incomplete but in the Queen City league: Berry has only won a game or two. MECA, West Charlotte has 3-5 wins, Vance about the same. I think it is similar in the Metro with HP Central only with about 5 wins, and Greensboro Smith with just a hand full as well.

That is it. Remember that 32 of 42 teams make it.

 

Thanks, MINCMI
I have no idea how you respond to all this stuff so quickly and accurately, but it's pretty amazing.