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

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1A West Girls Basketball Projection

Time of last update — Friday, Jan. 3 at 4:01 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.

Big Smoky Mountain champ: Cherokee
Big Smoky Mountain 2nd place: Robbinsville
*Catawba Shores 1-seed: Christ the King
*Central Carolina 1-seed: North Rowan
Little Smoky Mountain champ: Highlands
Metro 8 champ: Queen’s Grant
Metro 8 2nd place: Jackson Day
#Mountain Foothills 1-seed: Polk County
Northwest champ: North Stokes
Northwest 2nd place: East Wilkes
NW Piedmont champ: Bishop McGuinness
NW Piedmont 2nd place: Bethany Community
*PAC-7 1-seed: Uwharrie Charter Academy
*Southern Piedmont 1-seed: Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy
*Western Highlands 1-seed: Mountain Heritage
Western Highlands 2-seed: Avery County
*Yadkin Valley 1-seed: Albemarle

*-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.

#-Polk County is the only 1A in a split conference with 2A schools and therefore must finish in the top two spots in the standings or with a .500 overall record or better to be seeded with 1-seeds.

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. Bessemer City
29. Blue Ridge Early College
30. Highland Tech
31. Leadership Academy
32. North Rowan

Out:

33. Murphy
34. Rosman
35. Carver
36. Corvian Community
37. Cherryville

Projected seeds, matchups

(1) Bishop McGuinness vs. (32) North Rowan
(16) Jackson Day vs. (17) East Wilkes
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(8) Uwharrie Charter Academy vs. (25) Elkin
(9) Christ the King vs. (24) Draughn
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(5) Mountain Heritage vs. (28) Bessemer City
(12) Avery County vs. (21) Piedmont Community Charter
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(13) Hiwassee Dam vs. (20) Starmount
(4) Polk County vs. (29) Blue Ridge Early College
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(3) Albemarle vs. (30) Highland Tech
(14) Union Academy vs. (19) Andrews
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(6) North Stokes vs. (27) Hayesville
(11) Highlands vs. (22) Mitchell
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(7) Queen’s Grant vs. (26) Bethany Community
(10) Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy vs. (23) South Stokes
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(15) Robbinsville vs. (18) Piedmont Classical
(2) Cherokee vs. (31) Leadership Academy

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