Boys HS National Championships Brackets, Schedule Finalized
Boys HS National Championships Brackets, Schedule Finalized
The brackets for the 2023 Boys HS National Championships are out.
Also finalized is the schedule for the tournament, which will be broadcast LIVE on The Rugby Network.
As has been the usual format for this tournament, the top eight single-school teams are tracked into the single-school bracket, and the top eight HS clubs are tracked into the club bracket. The other eight teams go into the Tier 2 bracket.
The Tier 2 teams are:
SOC Raptors, Vienna, Penn, KC Jr. Blues, Aspetuck, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Raleigh Redhawks.
Here is the bracket and schedule.
The HS Club teams are:
Granite Bay, Belmont Shore, Danville, Charlotte Cardinals, San Diego Mustangs, Woodlands, Pendleton, and Layton Christian
This includes five state or regional champions, two close runners-up, and one team (Pendleton) which is leading its league but hasn't entere state playoffs yet.
The Single-School teams are:
Gonzaga, St. Ignatius, Jesuit Sacramento, Xavier, Herriman, Greenwich, Regis Jesuit, and Rye
There has been a single-school-only championship since 2008 and all but one year of champions are represented with this list (Jesuit six times, Gonzaga four times, Xavier, Herriman, and St. Ignatius).