CHAPEL HILL – The North Carolina High School Athletic
Association's regional basketball tournaments, will get underway on Tuesday as
the state's prep teams continue the road toward the state championships.
Sectional winners from the East will be going to
Fayetteville for the third consecutive year. The games will be played both the
Crown Coliseum and the Crown Arena in Fayetteville. In the west, teams will be
going to Greensboro for the fourth straight year, with games at the Greensboro
Coliseum Special Events Center and Fleming Gymnasium at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
The Greensboro Sports Commission, the Greensboro Sports
Council and Greensboro Area Convention and Visitors Bureau assist with the
Western Regional. Among the primary sponsors for the Eastern Regional are Wells
Fargo, the Crown Complex, the Fayetteville Public Works Commission, the
Fayetteville Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Cumberland County Schools.
The winners from the regional tournament games will advance
to the state championship contests. The
99th men's championships and the 42nd renewal of the women's finals will be
held at the Dean E. Smith Center on the University of North Carolina campus and
Reynolds Coliseum at North Carolina State University, scheduled for March 16.
The 2-A and 4-A finals will be at the Smith Center while the 1-A and 3-A
championships are set for Reynolds Coliseum.
Some teams with stellar records have advanced; in fact,
three of the four teams in the women’s 4-A Eastern Regional are undefeated.
On Monday, March 4, press conferences for the state
championships will be held at the Crown Coliseum for the Eastern Region and the
Greensboro Coliseum for the Western Region. The head coaches of each of the
competing teams and other school officials will on hand to preview the upcoming
games.
NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
2013 REGIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT PAIRINGS
Eastern Regionals-Men
Class 4A- at Crown Coliseum
Tuesday, March 5, 7 p.m.: Broughton (25-5) vs. Hillside (21-7)
Tuesday, March 5, 8:30 p.m.: Clayton (28-2) vs. Seventy-First
(27-2)
Saturday, March 9, noon: championship at Crown Coliseum
Class 1A- at Crown Arena
Wednesday, March 6, 7 p.m.: Rocky Mount Prep (22-3) vs.
Camden (21-7)
Wednesday, March 6, 8:30 p.m.: East Carteret (24-5) vs.
Pamlico (14-12)
Saturday, March 9, 2 p.m.: championship at Crown Arena
Class 2A- at Crown Arena
Thursday, March 7, 7 p.m.: Kinston (25-2) vs. Bunn (23-6)
Thursday, March 7, 8:30 p.m.: Jacksonville Northside (25-3)
vs. Fairmont (24-5)
Saturday, March 9, 4 p.m.: championship at Crown Arena
Class 3A- at Crown Coliseum
Friday, March 8, 7 p.m.: Rocky Mount (25-2) vs. West Craven (25-4)
Friday, March 8, 8:30 p.m.: Eastern Alamance (25-5) vs. Webb
(24-5)
Saturday, March 9, 6 p.m.: championship at Crown Coliseum
Eastern
Regionals-Women
Class 1A- at Crown Arena
Tuesday, March 5, 7 p.m.: Riverside Martin (28-1) vs. River
Mill Academy (26-3)
Tuesday, March 5, 8:30 p.m.: Lejeune (25-0) vs. East
Columbus (20-5)
Saturday, March 9, noon: championship at Crown Arena
Class 4A- at Crown Coliseum
Wednesday, March 6, 7 p.m.: Millbrook (1. 30-0) vs. Broughton
(24-5)
Wednesday, March 6, 8:30 p.m.: Raleigh (28-0) vs. Seventy-First
(28-0)
Saturday, March 9, 2 p.m.: championship at Crown Coliseum
Class 3A- at Crown Coliseum
Thursday, March 7, 7 p.m.: Northern Guilford (29-1) vs.
Chapel Hill (27-1)
Thursday, March 7, 8:30 p.m.: Eastern Wayne (28-1) vs. West
Craven (25-5)
Saturday, March 9, 4 p.m.: championship at Crown Coliseum
Class 2A- at Crown Arena
Friday, March 8, 7 p.m.: Kinston (24-4) vs. Bunn (23-6)
Friday, March 8, 8:30 p.m.: Jordan-Matthews (26-4) vs.
Graham (19-10)
Saturday, March 9, 6 p.m.: championship at Crown Arena
Western Regionals-Men
Class 2A- at Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center
Tuesday, March 5, 7 p.m.: Smoky Mountain (26-3) vs. Shelby (26-3)
Tuesday, March 5, 8:30 p.m.: Cuthbertson (27-3) vs. Trinity (22-4)
Saturday, March 9, 11:30 a.m.: championship at Greensboro
Coliseum Special Events Center
Class 3A- at Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center
Wednesday, March 6, 7 p.m.: Hunter Huss (24-3) vs. Ashbrook (21-8)
Wednesday, March 6, 8:30 p.m.: Statesville (23-3) vs. Harding
University (16-10)
Saturday, March 9, 1:30 p.m.: championship at Greensboro
Coliseum Special Events Center
Class 4A- at Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center
Thursday, March 7, 7 p.m.: Olympic (27-0) vs. W.A. Hough (23-5)
Thursday, March 7, 8:30 p.m.: Mount Tabor (26-3) vs. Dudley (23-6)
Saturday, March 9, 5:30 p.m: championship at Greensboro
Coliseum Special Events Center
Class 1A- at Fleming Gymnasium, UNC-Greensboro
Friday, March 8, 7 p.m.: Hendersonville (24-3) vs. East
Surry (18-11)
Friday, March 8, 8:30 p.m.: Winston-Salem Prep (29-2) vs.
North Rowan (27-3)
Saturday, March 9, 1:30 p.m.: championship at Fleming
Gymnasium, UNC-Greensboro
Western
Regionals-Women
Class 1A- at Fleming Gymnasium, UNC-Greensboro
Tuesday, March 5, 7 p.m.: Cherokee (27-2) vs. North Wilkes (25-2)
Tuesday, March 5, 8:30 p.m.: Lake Norman Charter (24-5) vs. Bishop
McGuinness (22-7)
Saturday, March 9, 11:30 a.m.: championship at Fleming
Gymnasium, UNC-Greensboro
Class 2A- at Fleming Gymnasium, UNC-Greensboro
Wednesday, March 6, 7 p.m.: Bandys (27-2) vs. Pisgah (24-6)
Wednesday, March 6, 8:30 p.m.: Thomasville (20-5) vs. East
Davidson (20-9)
Saturday, March 9, 3:30 p.m.: championship at Fleming
Gymnasium, UNC-Greensboro
Class 3A- at Fleming Gymnasium- UNC-Greensboro
Thursday, March 7, 7 p.m.: Tuscola (22-7) vs. Franklin (24-6)
Thursday, March 7, 8:30 p.m.: Ledford (26-3) vs. Harding
University (21-4)
Saturday, March 9, 3:30 p.m.: championship at Greensboro
Coliseum Special Events Center
Class 4A- at Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center
Friday, March 8, 7 p.m.: North Mecklenburg (26-3) vs. Porter
Ridge (25-3)
Friday, March 8, 8:30 p.m.: Page (26-1) vs. Southeast
Guilford (23-6)
Saturday, March 9, 7:30 p.m.: championship at Greensboro
Coliseum Special Events Center
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