Virginia High School Basketball State Playoffs Bracket – A, AA, AAA, Private and Prep School Rankings

The high school basketball state playoffs will begin very shortly and many fans throughout the nation will be interested in the state of Virginia as there are many national Top 25 high school basketball teams that will by vying for a state title.  When looking for a playoff bracket for A, AA, AAA or prep and private schools it would be a good idea to start at the high school websites that are devoted to sports such as rivals.com or maxpreps.com.


Some of the Virginia high school teams that are in the top 25 nationally include:

Norcom (Portsmouth, VA)

Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, VA)

These schools have been in the top 25 for much of the year and it will be exciting to see how they play throughout the state playoffs in 2011.  Remember that the state playoff bracket can greatly affect who goes on to play for the state title.  It seems to be the case that matchups make a huge difference when it comes to high school basketball and there are times when the best team does not necessarily win.  Sometimes it is the team with the best matchups all the way into the state championship game.

Over the next few weeks millions of American high school basketball fans will look for as much information as possible when it comes to high school basketball playoff brackets.  Unfortunately, there is not a great deal of information on the Internet about high school basketball but by searching Google many will be able to find high school newspaper articles that have some very important information.

Here is a little bit of history about the game of basketball from Wikipedia:

In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith,[2] a Canadian-born physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men’s Christian Association Training School[3] (YMCA) (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, and balls had to be retrieved manually after each “basket” or point scored; this proved inefficient, however, so the bottom of the basket was removed,[4] allowing the balls to be poked out with a long dowel each time. The peach baskets were used until 1906 when they were finally replaced by metal hoops with backboards. A further change was soon made, so the ball merely passed through, paving the way for the game we know today. An association football was used to shoot baskets. Whenever a person got the ball in the basket, his team would gain a point. Whichever team got the most points won the game.[5] The baskets were originally nailed to the mezzanine balcony of the playing court, but this proved impractical when spectators on the balcony began to interfere with shots. The backboard was introduced to prevent this interference; it had the additional effect of allowing rebound shots.[6]
Naismith’s handwritten diaries, discovered by his granddaughter in early 2006, indicate that he was nervous about the new game he had invented, which incorporated rules from a children’s game called “Duck on a Rock”, as many had failed before it. Naismith called the new game “Basket Ball”.[7]
The first official game was played in a YMCA gymnasium on January 20, 1892 with nine players. The game ended at 1–0; the shot was made from 25 feet (7.6 m), on a court just half the size of a present-day Streetball or National Basketball Association (NBA) court. By 1897–1898 teams of five became standard.

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1. Indiana 2011 High School State Basketball Playoffs Bracket – Class 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A Games for a State Title
2. Kentucky 2011 High School State Basketball Playoffs Bracket – District, Regional and State Tournament Information
3. Listen to Murphy vs Nantahala High School Basketball Playoffs Radio Broadcast Live Online – North Carolina State Basketball Playoffs