2016 IHSA State Championship Tournament

The 2016 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State Championship Tournaments ended the thirtieth State Championship Series conducted in Scholastic Bowl by the IHSA. It was the twenty-fifth season in which there were separate State Championship Tournaments held for small schools (Class A) and large schools (Class AA). For the twentieth year, both tournaments were held at the Peoria Civic Center. The tournaments were held on a Friday, March 18.

Notably, this was the final tournament under the supervision of IHSA administrator, Ron McGraw.

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: Latin

Runner-Up: St. Teresa

Third Place Mater Dei

Fourth Place Riverdale

POOL #1

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Mater Dei	270	Athens	220
	Latin	490	Johnson City	100
2	Latin	490	Mater Dei	130
	Athens	230	Johnson City	220
3	Mater Dei	230	Johnson City	80
	Latin	420	Athens	130

POOL #2

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	St. Teresa	300	Keith Country Day	170
	Riverdale	300	Cumberland	180
2	Keith Country Day	210	Riverdale	200
	St. Teresa	330	Cumberland	200
3	Cumberland	230	Keith Country Day	210
	St. Teresa	440	Riverdale	140

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Mater Dei	200	Riverdale	190

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Latin	430	St. Teresa	260

CLASS AA

2014 Class AA IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion: Hinsdale Central

Runner-Up: Auburn

Third Place IMSA

Fourth Place Barrington

POOL #1

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	IMSA	430	Urbana (University)	320
	Auburn	630	Southwestern	150
2	Aubrun	500	IMSA	340
	Urbana (University)	330	Southwestern	280
3	IMSA	510	Southwestern	180
	Auburn	450	Urbana (University)	390

POOL #2

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Barrington	480	Macomb	280
	Hinsdale Central	660	Sandburg	130
2	Hinsdale Central	540	Barrington	290
	Macomb	380	Sandburg	210
3	Barrington	490	Sandburg	130
	Hinsdale Central	430	Macomb	310

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
IMSA	440	Barrington	240

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Hinsdale Central	440	Auburn	360

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