Boys playoff pairings released for 1A, 2A

DES MOINES -- The Iowa High School Athletic Association released its Class 1A and Class 2A pairings for the boys postseason basketball tournament Wednesday.

Three area teams landed home games by virtue of the seeding process, which pairs district teams based on each team's record from games 5-15 of the regular season. The top four seeds in each district earn first-round home games.

Sioux Central draws a first-round home game in Class 2A District 4 against Carroll Kuemper. In Class 1A District 2, Clay Central-Everly will host Alta, and in 1A district 3, Ruthven-Ayshire will host the winner of a play-in game between Newell-Fonda and West Bend-Mallard.

Play-in games in both classes will be played on Monday, Feb. 15. In Class 2A, bracket with play-in games will begin their district tournament on Thursday, Feb. 18; brackets without a play-in game will begin on the 15th. First-round games in Class 1A will be played on Thursday, Feb. 18. All games start at 7 p.m.

District Tournament brackets in Classes 3A and 4A are expected to be released early next week.

Sioux Central would play either Manson-Northwest Webster or Prairie Valley in the district semifinals. Eagle Grove plays Clarion-Goldfield and Pocahontas Area/Pomeroy-Palmer will host Fort Dodge St. Edmond in first-round matchups in the top half of the bracket. The district final will be played on Tuesday, Feb. 23, in Humboldt.

Okoboji will travel to Garner-Hayfield for a first-round pairing in District 3. The Pioneers would play either West Hancock or Belmond-Klemme in the district semifinals. Lake Mills hosts Estherville-Lincoln Central and Emmetsburg hosts Spirit Lake in the bottom half of District 3. The district final will be played in Algona on Tuesday, Feb. 23.

The District 3 and 4 winners will play in a substate matchup on Saturday, Feb. 27, in Fort Dodge.

Clay Central-Everly would take on the winner of No. 5 Storm Lake St. Mary's and Alta, then faces a district final date in Cherokee against one of five teams -- Boyden-Hull, Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn, Granville Spalding, Harris-Lake Park and George-Little Rock.

Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn and Granville Spalding will face off in a play-in game to determine who plays at Boyden-Hull on the 18th.

Districts 1 and 2 in Class 1A will meet up in a substate game played on Saturday, Feb. 27, and hosted by the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City. The District 1 bracket includes Remsen St. Mary's or Akron-Westfield taking on No. 1 Rock Valley, Le Mars Gehlen taking on Remsen-Union, River Valley taking on Whiting and Woodbury Central hosting Kinglsey-Pierson in first-round games.

The District 3 lineup in 1A is largely made up of Cornbelt Conference teams. Ruthven-Ayrshire would play either Graettinger-Terril or Laurens-Marathon in the district semifinals on Tuesday, Feb. 23. Algona Garrigan and Twin River Valley square off in the first round in the bottom half of the bracket, as do North Sentral Kossuth and Armstrong-Ringsted. The district final will be played in Emmetsburg.

Winners from districts 3 and 4 will play in a substate game in Algona. District 4 includes Northeast Hamilton, Cal (Latimer), Corwith-Wesley-Luverne, Mason City Newman, Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka, North Iowa and Northwood Kensett.

Winners from each of the 8 substates will qualify for the state tournament. The Iowa High School Boys State Basketball Tournament will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, March 8. The finals in Classes 1A and 2A will be played Friday, March 12; 3A and 4A will be played on Saturday, March 13.

Boys Basketball Playoff Pairings

To view the pairings in bracket form, complete with dates of each game, visit the Boys hoops website.

Class 2A Bracket

(all brackets that include play-in games will begin their first round at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18, brackets without play-games will being first-round games on Monday, Feb. 15; all games are listed in bracket form with the winner of the first game listed playing the winner of the second game listed in the district semifinals, and so on)

District 1 Substate 1

West Lyon at No. 5 Western Christian

Central Lyon at Sibley-Ocheydan

Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn at Sioux Center

West Sioux at Sheldon

District 2 Substate 1

Odebolt-Arthur/BCIG or Ridge View vs. Lawton-Bronson

Westwood at East Sac County

Hinton at Unity Christian

Cherokee at South O'Brien

District 3 Substate 2

Okoboji at Garner-Hayfield

Belmond-Klemme at West Hancock

Estherville-Lincoln Central at Lake Mills

Spirit Lake at Emmetsburg

District 4 Substate 2

Clarion-Goldfield at Eagle Grove

Fort Dodge St. Edmond at Pocahontas Area/Pomeroy-Palmer

Prairie Valley at Manson-Northwest Webster

Carroll Kuemper at Sioux Central

District 5 Substate 3

Nashua-Plainfield at Wapsie Valley

Aplington-Parkersburg at Denver

Osage at No. 4 West Fork

Central Springs at Saint Ansgar

District 6 Substate 3

BCLUW or South Hardin at No. 7 Grundy Center

Gladbrook-Reinbeck at AGWSR

Hudson at Dike-New Hartford

Waterloo Columbus at Jesup

District 7 Substate 4

Clayton Ridge at MFL Mar-Mac

Edgewood-Colesburg at South Winneshiek

Starmont at Sumner-Fredericksburg

North Fayette at Turkey Valley

District 8 Substate 4

Mount Vernon at No. 10 Cascade

Monticello at Northeast Goose Lake

Dyersville Beckman at Maquoketa Valley

North-Linn at Bellevue

District 9 Substate 5

Durant-Bennet at No. 6 North Cedar

Tipton at Camanche

Wilton at No. 3 Solon

West Branch at Iowa City Regina

District 10 Substate 5

West Libery at Wapello

Louisa-Muscatine at West Burlington

Columbus Junction at No. 8 Danville

Mediapolis at Central Lee

District 11 Substate 6

Iowa Valley at B-G-M

Belle Plaine at Mid-Prairie

Cardinal at Pekin

Sigourney at Van Buren

District 12 Substate 6

Clarke at Albia

Pleasantville at No. 9 Pella Christian

Central Decatur at Davis County

Wayne at Eddyville-Blakesburg

District 13 Substate 7

East Marshall at West Marshall

Gilbert at North Polk

South Hamilton at Roland-Story

Ogden at Woodward Academy

District 14 Substate 7

C-M-B at P-C-M

Colfax-Mingo at Interstate 35

Earlham at No. 1 Des Moines Christian

Van Meter at Panorama

District 15 Substate 8

Audubon at No. 2 IKM-Manning

Tri-Center at Underwood

West Monona at Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto

Missouri Valley at Logan-Magnolia

District 16 Substate 8

Clarinda at Nodaway Valley

Shenandoah at Clarinda Academy

Red Oak at West Central Valley

Griswold at Guthrie Center

Class 1A Bracket

(all games to be played at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18; all games are listed in bracket form with the winner of the first game listed playing the winner of the second game listed in the district semifinals, and so on)

District 1 Substate 1

Remsen St. Mary's or Akron-Westfield at No. 1 Rock Valley

Remsen-Union at Le Mars Gehlen

Whiting at River Valley

Kingsley-Pierson at Woodbury Central

District 2 Substate 1

Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn or Granville Spalding at Boyden-Hull

George-Little Rock at Harris-Lake Park

Aurelia at No. 5 Storm Lake St. Mary's

Alta at Clay Central-Everly

District 3 Substate 2

Newell-Fonda or West Bend-Mallard at Ruthven-Ayrshire

Laurens-Marathon at Graettinger-Terril

Twin River Valley at Algona Garrigan

Armstrong-Ringsted at North Sentral Kossuth

District 4 Substate 2

Cal (Latimer) at No.7 Northeast Hamilton

C-W-L at Ventura

Woden-Crystal Lake/Titonka at Mason City Newman

Northwood-Kensett at North Iowa

District 5 Substate 3

Clarksville or Riceville at Rockford

North Butler at Tripoli

Waterloo Christian at No. 2 Cedar Falls NU

Janesville at North Tama

District 6 Substate 3

Valley at Central

Postville at Lansing Kee

Dunkerton at Don Bosco

West Central at East Buchanan

District 7 Substate 4

Alburnett at Lone Tree

Central City at Springville

Highland at Winfield-Mount Union

Lisbon at Olin

District 8 Substate 4

East Central or Bellevue Marquette at No. 6 Clinton Prince of Peace

Andrew at Preston

Rivermont Collegiate at Calamus-Wheatland

Morning Star Academy at Midland

District 9 Substate 5

Meskwaki Settlement School or North Mahaska at Lynnville-Sully

Montezuma at GMG

Tri-County at No. 9 Keota

English Valleys at H-L-V

District 10 Substate 5

Fairfield Maharishi or Moravia at No. 3 Iowa Mennonite School

Moulton-Udell at WACO

Harmony at Notre Dame

New London at Holy Trinity

District 11 Substate 6

Twin Cedars or Martensdale St. Mary's at Colo-Nesco

Grandview Park Baptist at Melcher-Dallas

Woodward-Granger at No. 10 Ankeny Christian

Madrid at Iowa Christian Academy

District 12 Substate 6

East Union or Lineville-Clio at Lamoni

Orient-Macksburg at Mount Ayr

Mormon Trail at Murray

Seymour at Southeast Warren

District 13 Substate 7

Adair-Casey at Glidden-Ralston

East Greene at Coon Rapids-Bayard

Southern Cal at Rockwell City-Lytton

Paton-Churdan at Southeast Webster-Grand

District 14 Substate 7

Walnut or West Harrison at Ar-We-Va

Charter Oak-Ute at Boyer Valley

Exira at Elk Horn-Kimballton

CAM at Woodbine

District 15 Substate 8

South Page at No. 8 Bedford

Diagonal at Lenox

Essex at Corning

Stanton at Villisca

District 16 Substate 8

Farragut or Riverside at East Mills

Sidney at No. 4 Council Bluffs St. Albert

Hamburg at Treynor

Fremont-Mills at A-H-S-T