NCHSAA 3A East Girls Soccer Playoff Projection - 2024
These are the projections for the 3A East bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA girls soccer playoffs.
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3A East Girls Soccer Projection
Time of last update -- Wednesday, May 8 at 3:10 p.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").
- 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 champ: Triton
**All American 2nd place: Harnett Central
**Big Carolina champ: Jacksonville
*Big East 1-seed: Northern Nash
Central champ: Western Alamance
Central 2nd place: Eastern Alamance
Coastal champ: Dixon
Coastal 2nd place: West Carteret
**Mideastern 1-seed: South Brunswick
*Northeastern Coastal 1-seed: Currituck County
*Northern Lakes champ: Carrboro
Quad County champ: Hunt
Quad County 2nd place: C.B. Aycock
**Sandhills 1-seed: Lee County
**United 8 1-seed: Cape Fear
*-Split conference with 2A 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.
**-Split conference with 4A 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
In:
27. Northside - Jacksonville
28. South Brunswick
29. Croatan
30. Southern Alamance
31. Smithfield-Selma
32. Williams
Out:
1. Southern Durham
2. Southern Lee
3. West Brunswick
4. Terry Sanford
5. Western Harnett
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Western Alamance vs (32) Williams
(16) Cedar Ridge vs (17) C.B. Aycock
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(8) Cape Fear vs (25) Swansboro
(9) Northern Nash vs (24) Franklinton
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(5) Union Pines vs (28) South Brunswick
(12) Lee County vs (21) Harnett Central
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(13) J.H. Rose vs (20) Richlands
(4) Carrboro vs (29) Croatan
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(3) Dixon vs (30) Southern Alamance
(14) West Carteret vs (19) Eastern Alamance
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(6) Hunt vs (27) Northside - Jacksonville
(11) Fike vs (22) West Johnston
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(7) Currituck County vs (26) Durham School of the Arts
(10) Triton vs (23) Southern Nash
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(15) Orange vs (18) First Flight
(2) Jacksonville vs (31) Smithfield-Selma
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