COMPLETE: 2024 Boys Basketball Brackets

About the Draw
To conduct the random drawing for the boys basketball state tournament, the IHSAA places ping-pong balls representing each school in each sectional into a lottery-style air mix machine. A motorized fan in the bottom of the machine blows the balls around the inside of the transparent container and air then forces each ball up through a tube in random order. For example, the first ball retrieved from the machine will be the visiting team in game one with the second ball representing the home team in game one. The third ball to come out is the visitor in game two and the fourth ball the home team in game two. That same method is followed through all 64 sectionals and 16 regionals.

The opening two weeks of pairings have been announced for the 114th Annual IHSAA Boys
Basketball State Tournament presented by the Indiana Pacers and Indiana Fever. Sectional games are scheduled to begin Tuesday, Feb. 27, and run through Saturday, March 2 with regionals on Saturday, March 9.

For the second year, the regional is a single-game championship, and the semi-state a two-game
affair with the winner advancing to the state championship game.

Two regional championship games will be played back-to-back at the same site with the winners finding out their next opponent and host site the following day.

The semi-state games – scheduled for Saturday, March 16 – will be randomly drawn and announced in a special pairings show via IHSAAtv.org.

The four state championship games that make up the State Finals will be played at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday, March 30. That date is a week later than normally scheduled
due to Gainbridge Fieldhouse hosting the NCAA Men’s Basketball First and Second Round Tournament games.

No. of Schools Entered: 403 teams.
By Class: – 100 4A teams; 104 3A teams; 99 2A teams; 100 1A teams.
Total No. of Games: 399 games in 26 days.

Current Top-ranked Teams (Associated Press)
4A: Fishers (vs. Carmel in Sectional 8 at Noblesville)
3A: Danville (vs. Western Boone in Sectional 25 at Lebanon)
2A: Tipton (hosts Elwood Community in Sectional 39)
1A: Evansville Christian (drew bye; vs. Cannelton-Northeast Dubois winner in Sectional 64 at
Tecumseh).