These are the projections for the 1A East bracket for the 2025 NCHSAA girls basketball playoffs.

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1A East Girls Basketball Projection

Time of last update — Friday, Jan. 3 at 4:19 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”). If projections are updated before conference play begins, we use RPI to project the conference champion.
• Conference champs are in bold. Conference champs who would not be seeded as conference champs if the playoffs began today are in bold italics.

Atlantic champ: Cape Hatteras
Atlantic 2nd place: Bear Grass Charter
Carolina champ: Lakewood
Carolina 2nd place: Neuse Charter
Central Tar Heel champ: Clover Garden School
Central Tar Heel 2nd place: Triangle Math & Science
*Coastal Plains 1-seed: Pamlico County
*Four Rivers 1-seed: Gates County
*Four Rivers 2-seed: Perquimans
*Mid-Carolina 1-seed: Chatham Central
*Super Six 1-seed: Falls Lake
Tar-Roanoke champ: Wilson Prep
Tar-Roanoke 2nd place: North Edgecombe
Tar-Roanoke 3rd place: Northwest Halifax
Triangle North champ: Roxboro Community
Triangle North 2-seed: Oxford Prep
*Waccamaw 1-seed: East Bladen

*-Split conference with 2A 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

• Note: We will start to implement the “no leapfrogging” stipulation two weeks before official brackets come out. This rule prevents a team from making the playoffs over a team that it finished behind in the final conference standings. Once this process is implemented, there could be changes towards the bottom of the field.

In:

28. Chatham Charter
29. Pender
30. Vance Charter
31. Woods Charter
32. Eno River Academy

Out:

33. Mattamuskeet
34. North Moore
35. Henderson Collegiate
36. Ocracoke
37. Southern Wake Academy

Projected seeds, matchups

(1) Gates County vs. (32) Eno River Academy
(16) Washington County vs. (17) Bear Grass Charter
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(8) Clover Garden School vs. (25) Oxford Prep
(9) Falls Lake vs. (24) Columbia
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(5) Lakewood vs. (28) Chatham Charter
(12) Neuse Charter vs. (21) Northwest Halifax
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(13) Northside – Pinetown vs. (20) East Wake Academy
(4) East Bladen vs. (29) Pender
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(3) Wilson Prep vs. (30) Vance Charter
(14) North Duplin vs. (19) Rosewood
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(6) Roxboro Community vs. (27) Weldon
(11) Perquimans vs. (22) Southside
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(7) Chatham Central vs. (26) Triangle Math & Science
(10) Cape Hatteras vs. (23) Warren County
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(15) North Edgecombe vs. (18) East Columbus
(2) Pamlico County vs. (31) Woods Charter

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