Class 4A Playoff Teams

[KidSilverhair]

District Champs (hosting Round 1)

• North Scott
• Xavier
• Waverly-Shell Rock
• Indianola
• Lewis Central
• Webster City

Second-place qualifiers (hosting Round 1)

• Bondurant-Farrar
• Winterset

Second-place qualifiers (on the road)

• Spencer
• Clear Creek Amana
• Decorah
• Burlington

At-large qualifiers (on the road)

• Fort Dodge
• Norwalk
• Cedar Rapids Washington
• Carlisle

Pella missed the playoffs by .0002 behind Carlisle for the last at-large spot.

You'll notice the IHSAA used head-to-head results of North Scott over Xavier to adjust the 1 and 2 seeds, even though Xavier's RPI is .0042 higher than North Scott. I thought the postseason manual only said they'd use head-to-head to overrule RPI in "side by side" rankings for the 16th and final qualifier ... apparently they're also using it for seeding, which is fine, but I didn't see that point made in the manual (maybe I missed it, they bury important stuff like that in weird places you wouldn't think to look).

So, you'd guess North Scott, Xavier, Waverly-Shell Rock, and Indianola will each go in a different pod, as the top four seeds. Trouble is, that makes the pods kind of geographically difficult ... the NS/CRX/WSR pods only have four other road teams on their side of the state, while west of B/F/Carlisle there are seven teams, four of which have to travel, and only one pod (Indianola's) anywhere in the area.

Here's a thought:

CR Wash at North Scott
CCA at B/F

Decorah at Xavier
Norwalk at Webster City

Carlisle at WSR
Spencer at Winterset

Burlington at Indianola
Fort Dodge at Lewis Central

 

[KidSilverhair]

Pod 1

• Decorah at North Scott
• Clear Creek Amana at Winterset

Pod 2

• Burlington at Xavier
• Norwalk at Webster City

Pod 3

• Cedar Rapids Washington at Waverly-Shell Rock
• Fort Dodge at Bondurant-Farrar

Pod 4

• Carlisle at Indianola
• Spencer at Lewis Central

 

[ronsss]

interesting kidsilver--some good teams in 4a this year, lot of parity........i wonder why we have to wait a week to get the pairings....boone too lazy to stay an hour later????

 

[ISUChip]

interesting kidsilver--some good teams in 4a this year, lot of parity........i wonder why we have to wait a week to get the pairings....boone too lazy to stay an hour later????

Who waited a week for the 4A pairings?

 

[PNation]

Personally I think the state did a very good job with balancing seeding with geography. In the past that hasn’t been there case.

 

[KidSilverhair]

One more thing I wanted to mention - Pella missed out on the last at-large spot by .0002. That’s less than the benefit you get from one opponents’ opponents’ victory in the RPI.

So (for one example) if Marion had been able to hold on to their 21-15 4th quarter lead over Mason City, Pella would be in the playoffs instead of Carlisle. Every game can make a difference.

 

[ronsss]

Who waited a week for the 4A pairings?

okay....well,,,i saw them now..on that page on the ihaas....they had no 4a listed..but i found it

 

[ronsss]

4a has some really good teams this year, be very interesting to see this play on, i suspect lewis central and indianola will have a rematch

 

[ronsss]

interesting kidsilver--some good teams in 4a this year, lot of parity........i wonder why we have to wait a week to get the pairings....boone too lazy to stay an hour later????

i see 3a now...missed it

 

[PlazaHawkeye]

Wow North Scott loses to Decorah 14 10... big time upset.

 

[ronsss]

that is sort of a big surprise...i saw a video on north scott today, player interviews ,etc..i believe they thought they would win it all . got to be a tough loss for north scott

 

[PlazaHawkeye]

Yeah I'd say they would have been favorite to win it all... I am stunned. They played a weak schedule, so I expected there to be some closer games, but not knocked out in round 1.

 

[Foxmanhawk]

Obviously after the fact and no discredit to Winterset, but CCA got screwed by the officials all night @ Winterset. I’m talking game-altering calls and no calls. Pretty frustrating to see this!