The NCHSAA basketball playoffs brackets are set. With top talent from Fayetteville participating, here are 15 girls to watch in the first round.

It’s now win-or-go-home. Here are eight teams in Cleveland, Gaston and Lincoln counties hoping for long NCHSAA high school basketball playoff runs.

The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released the brackets for the 2025 high school basketball playoffs Sunday, setting the first-round pairings for both boys and girls basketball across the state.

The announcement comes just one day after the All American and United 8 Conference champions were crowned, with Seventy-First boys winning a fourth straight league title, Terry Sanford girls named co-champs and ready to defend their 3A East Regional championship and Jack Britt girls lighting up the U8 playoffs with a run to their third title in five years.

Sanderson has clinched the Cap's top playoff seed and outright conference championship. Due to a three-way tie for second place, the tiebreaker procedures had to be used. Broughton won out over Cardinal Gibbons and Leesville Road as Broughton went 3-1 vs. the other two while Cardinal Gibbons went 2-2 and Leesville Road went 1-3.

The NCHSAA basketball playoffs brackets are set. With top talent from Fayetteville participating, here are 15 boys to watch in the first round.

CIF City Section high school boys' and girls' basketball playoff scores and updated pairings.