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The 2011 basketball divisions were finalized on September 1.  Three schools took the opportunity to opt up for tournament play in 2011.  On the boys side, Milwaukee Washington (enrollment 889) has opted up to Division 1 for the 2011 tournament series.  On the girls side, Nicolet (enrollment 1176) and Pius XI (enrollment 993) have also requested to move up from Division 2 to Division 1.

The division breaks for the 2011 tournament series are as follows:  Division 1 - schools with enrollments 1200 and above (77 boys teams and 79 girls teams); Division 2 - schools with enrollments of 600 to 1200 (89 boys teams and 88 girls teams); Division 3 - schools with enrollments of 328 to 600 (97 boys teams and 94 girls teams); Division 4 - schools with enrollments of 200 to 327 (104 boys teams and 99 girls teams); and Division 5 - schools with enrollments of 200 and below (120 boys teams and 118 girls teams).

The voting for seeding has been completed with only a handful of half brackets being seeded in their entirety.   If 25% or more of the schools in a given half bracket were opposed to seeding the entire group, it will be broken down into regional groupings as identified on the brackets posted below.

Sectional group A of Sectional #2 in Division 2 was one of the half-brackets to vote in favor of seeding all teams. The group is made up of eleven D2 schools in the Green Bay area. Elsewhere in Division 2, Sectional group A of Sectional #3 also chose to be seeded together. That grouping is made up only of Badger North and South teams with the exception of McFarland, a former Badger South school. The only other group to vote in favor of group seeding was Sectional group B of Sectional #4 in the Division 3 bracket. The eleven teams from that grouping are composed of schools in metro and suburban Milwaukee as well as Palmyra-Eagle.

Here are the brackets for both the boys and girls in their respective divisions:

Boys - Div 1  |  Div 2  |  Div 3  |  Div 4  |  Div 5

Girls Brackets -- will be released soon!