IHSA Announcements

December 15, 2004

Winter Bracket Drawing

The blind drawing that determines the state final pairings in bracketed team sports was held at the IHSA Office on Wednesday, December 15, starting at approximately noon. This drawing covered the winter sports of girls basketball and boys basketball.  Boys dual team wrestling pairings are determined by a set rotation.

Alan Sutton, sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune, made the drawings. Traditionally, the pairings are made by ordering the 8 sites that feed into the quarterfinals in alphabetical order and numbering them from 1 to 8. Then 8 numbered peas are drawn from a bottle. The number on the first pea drawn represents the site whose winner will occupy the first position on the quarterfinal bracket, and so on.

If you wish to follow the drawings as they are made, click your browser's Replot or Refresh button.  The pairings listed below will be updated after all the peas for each tournament are drawn.

Girls Class A Basketball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Bloomington (Illinois Wesleyan U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Chicago (Loyola U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Decatur (Millikin U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Edwardsville (SIU-E) 1 Super-Sectional
Pea #5 represents winner of Edwardsville (SIU-E) 2 Super-Sectional
Pea #6 represents winner of Kankakee (Olivet Nazarene U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #7 represents winner of Monmouth (Monmouth College) Super-Sectional
Pea #8 represents winner of Rockford (Rock Valley College) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #7, Monmouth (Monmouth College) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #5, Edwardsville (SIU-E) 2 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #1, Bloomington (Illinois Wesleyan U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #8, Rockford (Rock Valley College) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #3, Decatur (Millikin U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #4, Edwardsville (SIU-E) 1 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #6, Kankakee (Olivet Nazarene U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #2, Chicago (Loyola U.) Super-Sectional

Girls Class AA Basketball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Bloomington (Illinois Wesleyan U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Chicago (Loyola U.) 1 Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Chicago (Loyola U.) 2 Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Chicago (St. Xavier U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #5 represents winner of Chicago (UIC) 1 Super-Sectional
Pea #6 represents winner of Chicago (UIC) 2 Super-Sectional
Pea #7 represents winner of DeKalb (NIU) Super-Sectional
Pea #8 represents winner of Edwardsville (SIU-E) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #5, Chicago (UIC) 1 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #1, Bloomington (Illinois Wesleyan U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #2, Chicago (Loyola U.) 1 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #3, Chicago (Loyola U.) 2 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #4, Chicago (St. Xavier U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #6, Chicago (UIC) 2 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #8, Edwardsville (SIU-E) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #7, DeKalb (NIU) Super-Sectional

Boys Class A Basketball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Carbondale (SIU) Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Charleston (EIU) Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of DeKalb (NIU) Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Edwardsville (SIU-E) Super-Sectional
Pea #5 represents winner of Kankakee (Olivet Nazarene U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #6 represents winner of Macomb (WIU) Super-Sectional
Pea #7 represents winner of Normal (ISU) Super-Sectional
Pea #8 represents winner of Wheaton (Wheaton College) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #2, Charleston (EIU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #5, Kankakee (Olivet Nazarene U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #8, Wheaton (Wheaton College) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #1, Carbondale (SIU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #7, Normal (ISU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #6, Macomb (WIU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #4, Edwardsville (SIU-E) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #3, DeKalb (NIU) Super-Sectional

Boys Class AA Basketball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Chicago (Loyola U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Chicago (UIC) Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Chicago (United Center) 1 Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Chicago (United Center) 2 Super-Sectional
Pea #5 represents winner of DeKalb (NIU) Super-Sectional
Pea #6 represents winner of Edwardsville (SIU-E) Super-Sectional
Pea #7 represents winner of Moline (Mark of the Quad Cities) Super-Sectional
Pea #8 represents winner of Normal (ISU) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #6, Edwardsville (SIU-E) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #3, Chicago (United Center) 1 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #4, Chicago (United Center) 2 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #5, DeKalb (NIU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #1, Chicago (Loyola U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #2, Chicago (UIC) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #7, Moline (Mark of the Quad Cities) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #8, Normal (ISU) Super-Sectional

The IHSA thanks you for your interest in this season's bracket drawing.