The East regionals start Tuesday with the 4-A girls and 3-A boys.
Southeast Raleigh, Millbrook, Northwood and Northern Durham girls begin play while Chapel Hill, Millbrook, Wakefield and Northwood boys start play.
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The East regionals start Tuesday with the 4-A girls and 3-A boys.
Southeast Raleigh, Millbrook, Northwood and Northern Durham girls begin play while Chapel Hill, Millbrook, Wakefield and Northwood boys start play.
In the 4-A ranks, Garner and New Hanover meet for a sectional title for the second straight year. Chapel Hill gets a chance to advance to the 3-A East Regional, while Northwood visits cross-county rival Jordan-Matthews in the 2-A ranks.
Winners of Friday's sectional final (third round) will advance to next week's East regionals in Fayetteville. See the rest of the NCHSAA boys basketball playoff match-ups in the East by clicking "Read More" below.
Undefeated Garner remains atop the N&O boys high school basketball rankings.
The second round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association boys basketball tournament will be played on Wednesday night.
Complete NCISAA boys and girls basketball pairings.



The Tri-Nine Conference announced its all-conference awards for boys and girls basketball after completion of its conference championship games Friday. Here they are below:
Tri-Nine champion Middle Creek (22-4) and Cap Eight champ Wakefield (22-3) are in the same sectional bracket. Both cannot get to the regional in Fayetteville.
Five of eight teams in Garner's sectional bracket have 11 or more losses. The other No. 1 seed is New Hanover (19-5).
Barring unforeseen circumstances, here's some of the Monday night first-round match-ups in the NCHSAA boys and girls playoffs.
4-A East BOYS
Our area community sports editors have been busy all week covering their conference tournaments and posting who will finish where. Now, it's time to put all the conference championships scheduled for tonight under one roof. Or in this case, one blog.
Here's the who, what and when for the Tri-Nine, Cap-8, Greater Neuse, PAC-6, Carolina 6, Eastern Carolina, Cape Fear Valley, Northern Carolina, Carolina 10, Carolina 1-A and TISAC conference championships going down tonight...