These are the projections for the 3A West bracket for the 2025 NCHSAA girls basketball playoffs.

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3A West Girls Basketball Projection

Time of last update — Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 2:24 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 South champ: Stuart W. Cramer
Big South 2nd place: Huss
Mid-Piedmont champ: Ledford
Mid-Piedmont 2nd place: Oak Grove
Mid-State champ: Ben L. Smith
Mid-State 2nd place: Rockingham County
**Mountain Athletic 1-seed: North Buncombe
Mountain 7 champ: Pisgah
Mountain 7 2nd place: Franklin
**Northwestern 1-seed: Hibriten
**Queen City Athletic 1-seed: West Charlotte
*Rocky River champ: Piedmont
South Piedmont champ: Robinson
South Piedmont 2nd place: Northwest Cabarrus
South Piedmont 3rd place: East Rowan
Western Foothills champ: North Lincoln
Western Foothills 2nd place: East Lincoln

*-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.

**-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

• 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. Forestview
29. Statesville
30. Enka
31. Central Cabarrus
32. Piedmont

Out:

33. East Henderson
34. Dudley
35. St. Stephens
36. Crest
37. Montgomery Central

Projected seeds, matchups

(1) Pisgah vs. (32) Piedmont
(16) Oak Grove vs. (17) Erwin
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(8) Freedom vs. (25) Central Davidson
(9) West Charlotte vs. (24) Franklin
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(5) Ledford vs. (28) Forestview
(12) Ashe County vs. (21) Rockingham County
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(13) East Lincoln vs. (20) North Iredell
(4) Ben L. Smith vs. (29) Statesville
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(3) Stuart W. Cramer vs. (30) Enka
(14) South Point vs. (19) Huss
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(6) A.C. Reynolds vs. (27) Ashbrook
(11) Hibriten vs. (22) West Henderson
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(7) Robinson vs. (26) Lake Norman Charter
(10) North Buncombe vs. (23) Foard
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(15) East Rowan vs. (18) Northwest Cabarrus
(2) North Lincoln vs. (31) Central Cabarrus

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