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

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3A East Girls Basketball Projection

Time of last update — Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 2:37 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.

**All American 1-seed: Terry Sanford
**All American 2-seed: Westover
**Big Carolina 1-seed: Jacksonville
*Big East 1-seed: Rocky Mount
Central champ: Western Alamance
Central 2nd place: Williams
Coastal champ: Croatan
Coastal 2nd place: Swansboro
**Mideastern 1-seed: South Brunswick
*Northeastern Coastal 1-seed: First Flight
*Northern Lakes 1-seed: Southern School of Energy and Sustainability
Quad County champ: Fike
Quad County 2nd place: C.B. Aycock
**Sandhills 1-seed: Union Pines
**United 8 1-seed: Seventy-First

*-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. Williams
29. Cedar Ridge
30. Cape Fear
31. Lee County
32. J.H. Rose

Out:

33. North Brunswick
34. Southern Wayne
35. Douglas Byrd
36. West Johnston
37. Person

Projected seeds, matchups

(1) First Flight vs. (32) J.H. Rose
(16) E.E. Smith vs. (17) Southern Nash
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(8) Jacksonville vs. (25) Carrboro
(9) Southern School of Energy and Sustainability vs. (24) West Carteret
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(5) Union Pines vs. (28) Williams
(12) C.B. Aycock vs. (21) Eastern Alamance
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(13) South Central vs. (20) Orange
(4) Fike vs. (29) Cedar Ridge
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(3) Western Alamance vs. (30) Cape Fear
(14) Vance County vs. (19) Swansboro
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(6) Rocky Mount vs. (27) Franklinton
(11) South Brunswick vs. (22) Scotland
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(7) Seventy-First vs. (26) Northside – Jacksonville
(10) Croatan vs. (23) Westover
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(15) Currituck County vs. (18) West Brunswick
(2) Terry Sanford vs. (31) Lee County

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