2015 IHSA State Championship Tournament

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The 2015 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State Championship Tournaments ended the twenty-ninth State Championship Series conducted in Scholastic Bowl by the IHSA. It was the twenty-fourth season in which there were separate State Championship Tournaments held for small schools (Class A) and large schools (Class AA). For the nineteenth year, both tournaments were held at the Peoria Civic Center. The tournaments were held on a Friday, March 20.

The tournament was hosted by Farmington (responsible for providing scorekeepers and timers, as well as arranging for set up at the facility). Equipment was furnished by Buzzersystems.com.

Advancement

Teams were assigned to one of eight sectionals within each class. Coaches then seeded the top 8 teams in their sectional. The IHSA then assigned the seeded teams to one of four regionals (1 with 8, 2 with 7, etc), with the remainder of the teams assigned to a regional geographically. The winners of the regionals would advance to their respective sectional tournaments, where they would play a three match round robin to determine a winner. The determination of the geographic boundaries of the Sectional was arbitrarily decided by the IHSA Office.

Tournament Format

Each round was comprised of 24 toss-ups and accompanying bonus questions.

In the State Championship Tournament, teams were randomly assigned to pools of four, and played a three match round robin. The winners of each pool advanced to the Championship Match, and the runners-up in each pool advanced to play for third place. Ties were broken by head-to-head results or total points scored among tied teams (in the event of a three-way tie).

The top four teams earned trophies and medals for team members, coaches, principals, and activities directors.

CLASS A

2014 Class A IHSA State Championship Tournament
State Champion:

Urbana (University)

Runner-Up:

Peoria Christian

Third Place

Newman Central Catholic

Fourth Place

Southwestern

POOL #1

Round Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
1 Riverton 210 Nashville 170
Peoria Christian 280 Southwestern 220
2 Peoria Christian 330 Riverton 170
Southwestern 230 Nashville 80
3 Southwestern 230 Riverton 190
Peoria Christian 280 Nashville 140

POOL #2

Round Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
1 Urbana (University) 330 Lisle 200
Newman Central Catholic 400 Casey-Westfield 130
2 Newman Central Catholic 390 Lisle 120
Urbana (University) 320 Casey-Westfield 130
3 Lisle 210 Casey-Westfield 110
Urbana (University) 370 Newman Central Catholic 240

Third Place

Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
Newman Central Catholic 210 Southwestern 170

Finals

Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
Urbana (University) 210 Peoria Christian 190

CLASS AA

2014 Class AA IHSA State Championship Tournament
State Champion:

Auburn

Runner-Up:

Hinsdale Central

Third Place

Fremd

Fourth Place

IMSA

POOL #1

Round Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
1 Fremd 390 Carbondale 310
Auburn 400 Dunlap 240
2 Fremd 290 Dunlap 280
Auburn 390 Carbondale 310
3 Auburn 430 Fremd 270
Dunlap 330 Carbondale 280

POOL #2

Round Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
1 Hinsdale Central 330 IMSA 240
Bloomington 390 Homewood-Flossmoor 210
2 Hinsdale Central 370 Homewood-Flossmoor 210
IMSA 370 Bloomington 240
3 Hinsdale Central 390 Bloomington 330
IMSA 520 Homewood-Flossmoor 80

Third Place

Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
Fremd 350 IMSA 300

Finals

Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
Auburn 480 Hinsdale Central 240