These are the projections for the 4A West 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 West Volleyball Projection

Time of last update — Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 11:06 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.

Central Piedmont champ: Reagan
Central Piedmont 2nd place: West Forsyth
Greater Metro champ: Lake Norman
Greater Metro 2nd place: South Iredell
Metro champ: Northern Guilford
Metro 2nd place: Grimsley
*Mountain Athletic champ: Asheville
*Northwestern champ: Watauga
*Queen City Athletic champ: Hopewell
Southwestern champ: Independence
Southwestern 2nd place: East Mecklenburg
So. Meck champ: Myers Park
So. Meck 2nd place: South Mecklenburg
Southern Carolina champ: Marvin Ridge

*-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. Rocky River
29. Alexander Central
30. Ardrey Kell
31. Hough
32. Mallard Creek

Out:

1. South Caldwell
2. Davie
3. Butler
4. Mooresville
5. Ragsdale

Projected seeds, matchups

(1) Northern Guilford vs (32) Mallard Creek
(16) Hickory Ridge vs (17) Sun Valley
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(8) Watauga vs (25) Western Guilford
(9) Hopewell vs (24) East Mecklenburg
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(5) Independence vs (28) Rocky River
(12) Weddington vs (21) Southeast Guilford
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(13) Grimsley vs (20) Parkland
(4) Reagan vs (29) Alexander Central

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(3) Lake Norman vs (30) Ardrey Kell
(14) Cox Mill vs (19) Porter Ridge
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(6) Asheville vs (27) East Forsyth
(11) South Iredell vs (22) T.C. Roberson
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(7) Myers Park vs (26) Page
(10) Cuthbertson vs (23) South Mecklenburg
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(15) Southwest Guilford vs (18) West Forsyth
(2) Marvin Ridge vs (31) Hough

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Source: highschoolot.com