IHSA Announcements

December 21, 2006

Winter Bracket Drawing

The blind drawing that determines the state final pairings in bracketed team sports was held at the IHSA Office on Thursday, December 21, 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.

Terry Brown, sports broadcaster for WJBC in Bloomington, 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 TBA 1 (Decatur area)
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 TBA 2 Super-Sectional (Rockford area)
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 #6, TBA 2 Super-Sectional (Rockford area)
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #2, Chicago (Loyola U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #1, Bloomington (Illinois Wesleyan U.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #7, Salem Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #4, Jacksonville (Illinois College) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #5, Monmouth (Monmouth College) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #3, TBA 1 Super-Sectional (Decatur area)
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 (Loyola U.) 1 Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Chicago (Loyola U.) 2 Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Chicago (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 Jacksonville (Illinois College) Super-Sectional

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

Boys Class AA Basketball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Carbondale (SIU) Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Chicago (UIC) 1 Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Chicago (UIC) 2 Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of DeKalb (NIU) 1 Super-Sectional
Pea #5 represents winner of DeKalb (NIU) 2 Super-Sectional
Pea #6 represents winner of TBA 1 Super-Sectional (north side and near north suburbs)
Pea #7 represents winner of TBA 2 Super-Sectional (northwest and far north suburbs)
Pea #8 represents winner of Normal (ISU) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #5, DeKalb (NIU) 2 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #1, Carbondale (SIU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #7, TBA 2 Super-Sectional (northwest and far north suburbs)
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #4, DeKalb (NIU) 1 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #6, TBA 1 Super-Sectional (north side and near north suburbs)
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #8, Normal (ISU) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #2, Chicago (UIC) 1 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #3, Chicago (UIC) 2 Super-Sectional