Basketball: Region II Boys Possible Brackets - Division 3 and Division 4

(Feb. 13, 2013) - Next year things will be a little easier when postseason starts at the new conference level, but for one more time we must look across four districts from Charlottesville to Winchester to Sterling to figure out where Region II boys basketball teams will end up.

Let's start with the groundwork:

For starters, like football ... basketball awards separate regional and state championships based upon division (3 and 4) for AA. Same for A but not for AAA (please do not ask about the logic of AAA not doing it too ...).

For region II the 10-team Dulles District is pretty much all Division 4 with seven of the 10 schools D4 except for Champe, Heritage and Loudoun Valley. Since there are only 13 teams in D4 -- a majority of the region IS Loudoun: Briar Woods, Dominion, Loudoun County, Park View, Potomac Falls, Tuscarora and Woodgrove.


The other three districts are the Jefferson (by Charlottesville) and Evergreen and Northwestern (which are down Fauquier way and out in the Winchester area). The Jefferson has only six schools (Fluvanna, Monticello, Western Albemarle, Charlottesville, Louisa and Powhatan) and the Evergreen and Northwestern combined only have 10 schools with each five - Evergreen (Liberty, Fauquier, Warren County, Brentsville, Kettle Run) and Northwestern (Handley, Sherando, Millbrook, Skyline, James Wood).

Divisional Splits:
D4: 7 Dulles schools from above plus Liberty, Sherando, Louisa, Powhatan, James Wood, Millbrook
D3: 3 Dulles schools from above plus rest of region above

How they seed the postseason region tournament:
Basketball:
-Division 3, 4 – 8 teams qualify per Division
-Division 3, 4 – No byes

The following criteria will be used to rank the divisional teams for the purpose of qualifying for and seeding the Region II Tournament:
Seed Criteria District designed
#1 #1 seeds from All Districts
#2 #2 seeds from All Districts
#3 #3 seeds from Large Districts
#4 #3 seeds from Medium Districts
#5 #4 seeds from Large Districts
#6 #3 seeds from Small Districts
#7 #4 seeds from Medium Districts
#8 #5 seeds from Large Districts
#9 #5 seeds from Medium Districts
#10 #4 seeds from Small Districts
#11 #6 seeds from Large Districts
#12 #7 seeds from Large Districts
#13 #6 seeds from Medium Districts
#14 #8 seeds from Large Districts
#15 #7 seeds from Medium Districts
#16 #5 seeds from Small Districts

Teams that qualify on the same seed criteria line will be seeded according to the following tiebreaking criteria:
Tiebreaking Seed Criteria
#1 Head to Head results
#2 Regular season winning % in District games only
#3 Winning % versus common opponents
#4 Overall winning %
#5 Total wins


Looking at regular season final standings only, and not taking into account any crazy tournament upsets this week -- though it appears that semifinal match-ups across the region on the boys side are all the top 4 seeds advancing -- here is what we think:

D4
1, Potomac Falls (large school #1)
2, Sherando (small school #1)
3, Liberty (small school #2)
4, Loudoun County (large school #4)
5, Millbrook (small school #3)
6, Briar Woods (large school #5)
7, James Wood (small school #4)
8, Tuscarora (large school #6)
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9, Dominion (large school #7)
10, Woodgrove (large school #8)


D3
1, Kettle Run (small school #1)
2, Western Albemarle (small school #1)
3, Loudoun Valley (large school #2)
4, Handley (small school #2 -- 6-2 record)
5, Fluvanna (small school #2 -- 8-3 record)
6, Heritage (large school #3)
7, Monticello (small school #3 - 7-4 record)
8, Fauquier (small school #3 -- 3-3 record)
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9, Warren County (small school #4)
10, Charlottesville (small school #4)