At deadline time for this story, the 3A West regular season had just concluded and conference teams were preparing for this week’s district tournament that is being held at Charleston High School. The Hackett Lady Hornets, undefeated conference champions and the top seed in the district tournament, received a bye to the semi-finals of the tournament. The Paris Lady Eagles, runner-ups in the regular season and the tournament’s number two seed, also received a bye to the semifinals.
The top four seeds from this week’s conference tournament will advance to next week’s state tournament that will begin in Searcy at Harding Academy. The first three rounds of the state tournament will be held in Searcy with the state final being held in Hot Springs on Saturday at Bank OZK Arena.
Conference tournament seeding this week is extremely important to the top four teams who will advance to the state tournament. A team who wins the conference tournament will advance to the state and play a number four seeded team in the first round. A number two seed will play a number three seed in the first round. So, theoretically, the higher seeded teams have an easier path, at least in the first round of the state tournament. That is not always the case, such as in 2019 when the number four seed Waldron Lady Bulldogs upset a number one seed Perryville Lady Mustangs team in the first round of the state tournament held that year in Paris.
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