These are the projections for the 1A East bracket for the 2024 NCHSAA boys basketball playoffs.

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1A East Boys Basketball Projection

Time of last update — Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 1:27 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: Bear Grass Charter
Atlantic 2nd place: Ocracoke
Carolina champ: Lakewood
Carolina 2nd place: Neuse Charter
Central Tar Heel champ: Southern Wake Academy
Central Tar Heel 2nd place: Woods Charter
*Coastal Plains 1-seed: Northside – Pinetown
*Four Rivers 1-seed: Washington County
*Four Rivers 2-seed: Tarboro
*Mid-Carolina 1-seed: Chatham Central
*Super Six 1-seed: East Wake Academy
Tar-Roanoke champ: Wilson Prep
Tar-Roanoke 2nd place: Northampton County
Tar-Roanoke 3rd place: Warren County
Triangle North champ: Voyager Academy
Triangle North 2-seed: Eno River Academy
*Waccamaw 1-seed: East Columbus

*-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. Lejeune
29. Clover Garden School
30. Roxboro Community
31. Pamlico County
32. Pender

Out:

33. Gates County
34. Falls Lake
35. Perquimans
36. Mattamuskeet
37. Southside

Projected seeds, matchups

(1) Washington County vs. (32) Pender
(16) Vance Charter vs. (17) Warren County
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(8) Bear Grass Charter vs. (25) Ocracoke
(9) East Columbus vs. (24) Rocky Mount Prep
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(5) Chatham Central vs. (28) Lejeune
(12) North Edgecombe vs. (21) Northwest Halifax
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(13) North East Carolina Prep vs. (20) Neuse Charter
(4) Wilson Prep vs. (29) Clover Garden School
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(3) Lakewood vs. (30) Roxboro Community
(14) Northampton County vs. (19) Eno River Academy
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(6) Northside – Pinetown vs. (27) Excelsior Classical Academy
(11) Tarboro vs. (22) East Bladen
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(7) Voyager Academy vs. (26) Hobbton
(10) East Wake Academy vs. (23) Bertie
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(15) Chatham Charter vs. (18) Woods Charter
(2) Southern Wake Academy vs. (31) Pamlico County

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