PIAA Basketball State Championship

Pennsylvania Independent Schools state-tournament for prep schools that don't compete in PIAA — Hill, Westtown, Perkiomen, Phelps, Episcopal Academy, Penn Charter. Perkiomen beat Westtown in the 2024 boys final 71-64. Westtown girls have a 5-year title streak.

League bracket among the Philadelphia archdiocesan schools, finals at The Palestra. Roman Catholic, Neumann-Goretti, Father Judge, Archbishop Wood and Carroll have rotated the trophy in recent years. Roman ran a three-peat into 2024-25; St. Joe's Prep was top seed in 2025 looking for first title since 2004. The PCL champion typically rolls to the PIAA 6A title soon after.

Pittsburgh Public Schools play their own championship instead of WPIAL. Allderdice has won five straight (2021-2025), most recently beating Obama Academy 59-53 in February 2025. Champions go straight to PIAA states. Smaller field but consistently produces a state-quality team in 5A or 6A.

Alaska Airlines Center on the UAA campus. Two weekends — 1A/2A first (March 11-14), then 3A/4A (March 18-21). NFHS Network livestreams every game. Branded as ASAA March Madness, hosted by ASAA and Anchorage School District.

Hot Springs. Arkansas Activities Association state finals, classes 1A through 6A boys and girls, all played at Bank OZK Arena over three days in mid-March. Free live streaming through Arkansas TV makes this one of the easiest state finals in the region to follow.

Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, two-day final weekend. The Open Division boys final is the most loaded state title game in the country most years — you have to win your CIF section first, and the Open bracket pulls eight teams from those section champs. Eastvale Roosevelt won the 2025 Open over Archbishop Riordan; Brayden Burries dropped 44 in the final.

Denver. Colorado state finals for both boys and girls, classes 1A through 6A. Great 8 round opens the week, all six championship games run on the final Saturday at Denver Coliseum. Every game streams on NFHS Network.

CIAC moved finals to Mohegan Sun Arena and runs both boys and girls D-I through D-IV champion games over a single weekend. Public + private all together (CT doesn't separate them). Ellington won D-IV 2025 — their first state title in 53 years. Greenwich girls took D-I.

The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association crowns boys, girls, and unified basketball champions each March. The 2025 boys final saw No. 6 Sanford School upset No. 1 Dover 37-34 — typical of a small-state bracket where seeding doesn't carry as much weight as program continuity.