1993 IHSA State Championship Tournament

The 1993 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State Championship Tournaments ended the seventh State Championship Series conducted in Scholastic Bowl by the IHSA. It was the second season in which there were separate State Championship Tournaments held for small schools (Class A) and large schools (Class AA).

Classification

1992 marked the first time where small schools and large schools would be separated and compete for different State Titles. While the process for determining the cutoff for determining classification has changed over time, it has roughly hovered around the 725-750 student area. Thus, about 30-40% of the schools would compete as Class AA, and 60-70% of the schools would compete as Class A. This permits a roughly equal number of students to compete in each class.

Advancement

In each class, the state was divided into 16 areas, termed in Illinois as Sectionals. Each sectional hosted a tournament, the winner of which advanced to the State Championship Tournament. The determination of these geographic boundaries was arbitrarily decided by the IHSA Office.

Tournament Format

Each round was comprised of 30 toss-ups and accompanying bonus questions. The sectional tournaments and State Championship Tournament were all single elimination. Teams were randomly assigned to positions in the bracket without regard for record or performance.

The exception to the single elimination format occurred in the semifinals, where the two semifinal losers played a third place match. The top four teams earned trophies and medals for team members, coaches, principals, and activities directors. The trophies were of the design smaller than that of the athletic trophies given out by the IHSA.

CLASS A

1993 Class A IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion: Winnebago High School

Runner-Up: The Latin School

Third Place Farmington High School

Fourth Place Sullivan High School

The Class A State Championship Tournament was held at Rochester Elementary School. This would be the second and final year that the State Championship Tournament would be held at this site.

One Sectional Champion did not attend this tournament. St. Bede High School was thus given a bye to the quarterfinals.

Octafinals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Latin School	285	Warsaw	90
Hoopeston Area	185	Wesclin	106
Sullivan	267	Catlin	132
Peoria Heights	216	Princeton	155
Farmington	273	McLeansboro	204
Winnebago	293	Anna-Jonesboro	193
Ridgeview	242	Fairfield	190

Quarterfinals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Latin School	355	St. Bede	29
Sullivan	207	Hoopeston Area	156
Farmington	234	Peoria Heights	156
Winnebago	359	Ridgeview	162

Semifinals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Latin School	213	Sullivan	139
Winnebago	344	Farmington	121

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Farmington	256	Sullivan	142

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Winnebago	319	Latin School	172

CLASS AA

1993 Class AA IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion: Quincy Senior High School

Runner-Up: Illinois Math & Science Acaademy

Third Place MacArthur High School

Fourth Place Oak Park-River Forest High School

The Class AA State Championship Tournament was held at Lanphier High School in Springfield. This was the third and final year that Lanphier hosted the State Championship Tournament.

One team failed to appear to compete. Homewood-Flossmoor was thus in the random position to earn a bye and begin competition in the quarterfinals.

Octafinals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Quincy	275	Antioch	119
Oak Park-River Forest	248	Oak Forest	206
Downers Grove South	224	Triad	91
MacArthur	480	Rochelle	121
Maine East	403	Limestone	149
IMSA	435	Centralia	200
Wheaton North	478	Prospect	74

Quarterfinals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Quincy	305	Homewood-Flossmoor	262
Oak Park-River Forest	266	Downers Grove South	232
MacArthur	355	Maine East	278
IMSA	295	Wheaton North	265

Semifinals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Quincy	362	Oak Park-River Forest	209
IMSA	373	MacArthur	319

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
MacArthur	435	Oak Park-River Forest	128

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Quincy	354	IMSA	281

Notes

• This was Quincy's third and final State Championship under their legendary coach, Beth Young.
• Of IMSA's first nine trips to the State Championship Match, this would be their only loss.
• Prospect's 74 points is the Class AA record for the fewest points scored in a State Championship Tournament match.
• Despite their third place finish, MacArthur posted rare four 300-point matches in a single State Championship Tournament.

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