Girls playoff picture almost completely in focus
February 12, 2010 - 5:53 pm
With only a day left in the regular season, here’s a look at the girls basketball postseason scenarios.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association’s girls basketball playoffs begin Tuesday.
This breakdown is each league’s unofficial potential postseason qualifiers. The NIAA is expected to announce playoff pairings on Monday.
SUNRISE REGION
Northeast
Northeast
Desert Pines (12-2) secured the league title and the No. 1 seed on Friday.
Canyon Springs and Las Vegas, both 11-3, tied for second, but the Wildcats swept the season series and got the No. 2 seed. Canyon Springs is the No. 3.
Valley (10-4) got the final spot.
Southeast
Liberty (13-1) is the No. 1 seed, followed by Green Valley (11-3), Foothill (10-4) and Silverado (9-5).
SUNSET REGION
Northwest
Northwest
Centennial (16-0) is the league’s No. 1 seed.
Legacy and Palo Verde tied for second at 11-5. Mojave was also 11-5, but forfeited a game to Cimarron-Memorial on Friday and fell to 10-6.
Legacy and Palo Verde split head-to-head meetings and beat the same opponents the same number of times. The NIAA's third tiebreaker gives the nod to the team that won the second meeting, in this case, Legacy.
Legacy is the No. 2 seed and Palo Verde the No. 3.
With Mojave dropping to 10-6, the Rattlers tied Arbor View for fourth.
Again, the teams split head-to-head meetings, but Mojave's beaten opponents won more games than Arbor View's beaten opponents did, giving Mojave the tiebreaker and the No. 4 seed.
Southwest
Bishop Gorman (16-0) is the league’s No. 1 seed.
Sierra Vista (13-3) clinched the league's No. 2 seed by beating Durango (11-5) on Wednesday.
Bonanza (11-5) tied Durango for third. The Bengals won the tiebreaker on wins by beaten opponents and are the No. 3 seed. Durano is the No. 4.
3A SOUTHERN
Virgin Valley's (3-1) two-point win over Moapa Valley secured the No. 1 seed for the two-game tournament.
Boulder City (2-2) is the No. 2 seed and Moapa Valley (1-3) the No. 3.
2A SOUTHERN
Needles (14-0) has clinched the league’s No. 1 seed and will face fourth-seeded West Wendover (7-6) in a semifinal.
Lincoln County (11-3) and White Pine (10-3) will occupy the middle two seeds, but the order depends on the outcome of Saturday's Agassi Prep-White Pine game.
If White Pine wins, it will be the No. 2 seed. If White Pine loses, Lincoln County is the No. 2 seed..
1A SOUTHERN
Pahranagat Valley (9-0) locked up the No. 1 seed.
Lake Mead (8-1) is the No. 2 seed, followed by Lund (7-2), Henderson International (6-3) and Beatty (5-4).
Round Mountain (3-6) beat Tonopah (3-6) to win the tiebreaker for the No. 6 seed. Tonopah is the No. 7 seed.
Trinity and Indian Springs each finished 2-7 to tie for eighth. Trinity won the head-to-head matchup and is the No. 8 seed.