2/22/2026
The WIAA basketball seeding committees completed their work this morning and the brackets our “Tacoma Dome” bracket all below. The schedule and details are all below.
Schedule
Play-in Round
Tuesday, Feb 24
This is for the 3A and 1B classifications only where they have 20 team tournaments. Seeds 13-20 will play on the 24th with 13 vs 20, 14 vs 19 and so on. These are loser out games. The winners will then advance to play in the Regional round in another loser out contest.
State Regionals
Friday, Feb 27 and Saturday, Feb 28
In the Regional round all tournaments are down to 16. This is where seeding is important. The top 8 seeds will play each other with seeds 1-4 playing closer to their home and possibly on their home court. It’s 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5. But no one is eliminated in the top 8. The winners advance straight to day 2 (Thursday) of the State Tournament in the Quarterfinals. The losers will have to play on opening day in a loser out, winner to the quarterfinals game.
Seeds 9-16 or 9-20 depending on who wins the play-in games in the 3A and 1B tournaments will play each other in a 9 vs 16, 10 vs 15 and so on format. All the winners will move on to the State tournament on opening day (Wednesday) and play in a loser out game to try to get to the quarterfinals.
State Tournament Schedule
Wednesday, March 4 Opening Day
All games are winners to quarterfinals, losers out.
Thursday, March 5 Quarterfinals
No one is out on Thursday, winners move onto the Semifinals and losers drop into the consolation bracket.
Friday, March 6 Semifinals
Winners Bracket: Semifinals winners to the Championship game, losers to the 3rd/5th place game.
Consolation Bracket: Winners to the 4th/6th place game, losers are out and miss trophy day.
Saturday, March 7 Trophy Day!
4th/6th place game
3rd/5th place game
Championship Game
4A Boys
Seeding Order
1. Mount Si
2. Richland
3. Lake Washington
4. Glacier Peak
5. Gonzaga Prep
6. Puyallup
7. Emerald Ridge
8. West Valley
9. Auburn
10. Redmond
11. Chiawana
12. Camas
13. Woodinville
14. Sumner
15. Olympia
16. Sunnyside
4A Girls
Seeding Order
1. Davis
2. Union
3. Chiawana
4. Woodinville
5. Gonzaga Prep
6. Lake Washington
7. Bothell
8. Sumner
9. Auburn
10. Lake Stevens
11. Kennedy Catholic
12. Mead
13. Tahoma
14. Redmond
15. Bonney Lake
16. Eisenhower
3A Boys
Seeding Order
1. Rainier Beach
2. O’Dea
3. Mt. Spokane
4. Eastside Catholic
5. Bellarmine
6. Prairie
7. Lincoln
8. Bellevue
9. Auburn mountainview
10. Shorewood
11. Edmonds-Woodway
12. Liberty
13. Central Valley
14. Enumclaw
15. University
16. Snohomish
17. Mountain View
18. Monroe
19. River Ridge
20. Lakes
3A Girls
Top 8 Seeds
1. Bellevue
2. Snohomish
3. Ridgeline
4. Roosevelt
5. North Thurston
6. Eastside Catholic
7. Evergreen
8. Edmonds-Woodway
9. Stanwood
10. Enumclaw
11. Lakeside (Sea)
12. White River
13. Gig Harbor
14. University
15. Meadowdale
16. Hermiston
17. Bishop Blanchet
18. River Ridge
19. Lincoln
20. Kelso
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