These are the projections for the 4A East bracket for the 2024 NCHSAA volleyball playoffs.

The projections are not official and can change when the official brackets are released by the N.C. High School Athletic Association. However, these projections are accurate as of the time stamp below. Subscribe to email alerts to be notified when projections are updated. We also recommend bookmarking this page.

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4A East Volleyball Projection

Time of last update — Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 11:45 a.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: Pine Forest
*Big Carolina 1-seed: D.H. Conley
Cap-6 champ: Cardinal Gibbons
Cap-6 2nd place: Leesville Road
DAC-VI champ: Chapel Hill
DAC-VI 2nd place: Northern Durham
Greater Neuse River champ: Cleveland
Greater Neuse River 2nd place: Garner
*Mideastern 1-seed: Topsail
Northern Athletic champ: Millbrook
Northern Athletic 2nd place: Heritage
*Sandhills champ: Pinecrest
Southwest Wake champ: Green Hope
Southwest Wake 2-seed: Green Level
*United 8 1-seed: Gray’s Creek

*-Split conference with 3A 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. Jack Britt
29. Jordan
30. Middle Creek
31. Wakefield
32. Fuquay – Varina

Out:

1. Rolesville
2. Overhills
3. Riverside-Durham
4. New Bern
5. Broughton

Projected seeds, matchups

(1) Chapel Hill vs (32) Fuquay – Varina
(16) Apex Friendship vs (17) Leesville Road
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(8) Pinecrest vs (25) Garner
(9) Gray’s Creek vs (24) Richmond
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(5) Cleveland vs (28) Jack Britt
(12) Green Level vs (21) Hoke County
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(13) Holly Springs vs (20) East Chapel Hill
(4) Green Hope vs (29) Jordan

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(3) D.H. Conley vs (30) Middle Creek
(14) Hoggard vs (19) Northern Durham
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(6) Millbrook vs (27) Wake Forest
(11) Heritage vs (22) Panther Creek
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(7) Topsail vs (26) Lumberton
(10) Pine Forest vs (23) Laney
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(15) Cary vs (18) Apex
(2) Cardinal Gibbons vs (31) Wakefield

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Source: highschoolot.com