IHSA Announcements

December 14, 2005

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 14, starting at approximately 10 am. This drawing covered the winter sports of girls basketball and boys basketball.  Boys dual team wrestling pairings are determined by a set rotation.

Bryan Bloodworth, sports editor of the Bloomington Pantagraph, 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 Jacksonville (Illinois College) Super-Sectional
Pea #5 represents winner of Monmouth (Monmouth College) Super-Sectional
Pea #6 represents winner of Rockford (Rock Valley College) Super-Sectional
Pea #7 represents winner of Salem Super-Sectional
Pea #8 represents winner of West Frankfort (Frankfort) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #3, Decatur (Millikin U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #6, Rockford (Rock Valley College) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #4, Jacksonville (Illinois College) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #2, Chicago (Loyola U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #5, Monmouth (Monmouth College) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #1, Bloomington (Illinois Wesleyan U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #7, Salem Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #8, West Frankfort (Frankfort) 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 (DePaul U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Chicago (Loyola U.) 1 Super-Sectional (north and northwest suburbs)
Pea #4 represents winner of Chicago (Loyola U.) 2 Super-Sectional (north side of Chicago)
Pea #5 represents winner of Chicago (UIC) 1 Super-Sectional (southwest suburbs)
Pea #6 represents winner of Chicago (UIC) 2 Super-Sectional (western suburbs)
Pea #7 represents winner of DeKalb (NIU) Super-Sectional
Pea #8 represents winner of Jacksonville (Illinois College) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #4, Chicago (Loyola U.) 2 Super-Sectional (north side of Chicago)
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #1, Bloomington (Illinois Wesleyan U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #5, Chicago (UIC) 1 Super-Sectional (southwest suburbs)
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #3, Chicago (Loyola U.) 1 Super-Sectional (north and northwest suburbs)
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #8, Jacksonville (Illinois College) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #2, Chicago (DePaul U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #6, Chicago (UIC) 2 Super-Sectional (western suburbs)
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 Jacksonville (H.S.) 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 Moline (The Mark of the Quad Cities) Super-Sectional
Pea #8 represents winner of Normal (ISU) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #7, Moline (The Mark of the Quad Cities) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #5, Kankakee (Olivet Nazarene U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #8, Normal (ISU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #4, Jacksonville (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #3, DeKalb (NIU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #2, Charleston (EIU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #6, Macomb (WIU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #1, Carbondale (SIU) Super-Sectional

Boys Class AA Basketball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Carbondale (SIU) Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Chicago (DePaul U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of DeKalb (NIU) Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Normal (ISU) Super-Sectional
Pea #5 represents winner of TBA 1 Super-Sectional (northern suburbs)
Pea #6 represents winner of TBA 2 Super-Sectional (western suburbs)
Pea #7 represents winner of TBA 3 Super-Sectional (southern suburbs)
Pea #8 represents winner of TBA 4 Super-Sectional (near west and southwest)

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #6, TBA 2 Super-Sectional (western suburbs)
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #4, Normal (ISU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #7, TBA 3 Super-Sectional (southern suburbs)
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #3, DeKalb (NIU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #8, TBA 4 Super-Sectional (near west and southwest)
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #5, TBA 1 Super-Sectional (northern suburbs)
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #2, Chicago (DePaul U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #1, Carbondale (SIU) Super-Sectional