2006 IHSA State Championship Tournament

The 2006 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State Championship Tournaments ended the twentieth State Championship Series conducted in Scholastic Bowl by the IHSA. It was the fifteenth season in which there were separate State Championship Tournaments held for small schools (Class A) and large schools (Class AA). For the tenth year, both tournaments were held at the Peoria Civic Center.

The tournament was managed by John Rathbun, and equipment furnished by Buzzersystems.com.

Advancement

Teams were assigned to one of eight sectionals within each class. Teams were seeded by the coaches, and teams would then be assigned to one of four Regionals within each Sectional. 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 30 toss-ups and accompanying bonus questions.

In the State Championship Tournament, teams would be randomly assigned to pools of four, and play a three match round robin. The winners of each pool would advance to the Championship Match, and the runners-up in each pool would advance to play for third place. Ties were broken by head-to-head results or total points scored (in the event of a three way tie)

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.

Questions

For the sixth year, the questions were written by a group of retired coaches and person from other states.

CLASS A

2006 Class A IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion: The Latin School

Runner-Up: Illinois Valley Central High School

Third Place Winnebago High School

Fourth Place Lutheran Schools Association of Decatur

POOL #1

Latin School swept through their pool with a 3-0 record. Winnebago went 2-1, with a narrow loss to Latin, to advance to the third place match.

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Latin School	281	Fairfield	215
	Winnebago	338	Marquette	136
2	Latin School	192	Marquette	116
	Winnebago	216	Fairfield	162
3	Latin School	201	Winnebago	174
	Fairfield	112	Marquette	70

POOL #2

Both Decatur Lutheran and Illinois Valley Central went 2-1. IVC's victory in round one advanced them to the State Championship Match, and relegated Decatur Lutheran to the third place match.

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Illinois Valley Central	227	Decatur Lutheran	209
	Columbia	235	Macomb	170
2	Illinois Valley Central	249	Columbia	118
	Decatur Lutheran	196	Macomb	193
3	Macomb	142	Illinois Valley Central	100
	Decatur Lutheran	189	Columbia	126

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Winnebago	189	Decatur Lutheran	138

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Latin School	232	Illinois Valley Central	48

CLASS AA

2006 Class AA IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion: William Fremd High School

Runner-Up: Carbondale High School

Third Place Auburn High School

Fourth Place Wheaton North High School

POOL #1

Carbondale swept the pool (3-0) to advance to the Championship Match. Wheaton North went 2-1 and advance to play for third place.

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Wheaton North	320	Bloomington	240
	Carbondale	376	Downers Grove South	186
2	Carbondale	225	Wheaton North	195
	Bloomington	244	Downers Grove South	107
3	Wheaton North	250	Downers Grove South	107
	Carbondale	213	Bloomington	205

POOL #2

Fremd swept the pool (3-0) to advance to the Championship Match. Auburn went 2-1 and advance to play for third place.

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	New Trier	275	Homewood-Flossmoor	140
	Fremd	379	Auburn	285
2	Fremd	394	New Trier	169
	Auburn	471	Homewood-Flossmoor	165
3	Auburn	389	New Trier	177
	Fremd	293	Homewood-Flossmoor	113

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Auburn	372	Wheaton North	184

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Fremd	285	Carbondale	135

Notes

• The match between Winnebago and The Latin School was considered by most to be the true Class A State Championship match. The match saw Latin lead most of the way with Winnebago always keeping the match close. Brad Fischer was the leading scorer for the match, even though his Winnebago team had to settle for third place.
• A year after a loss to Stevenson in the Sectionals, Fremd was able to complete their quest for an IHSA State Championship.
• The Latin School placed in the top four for the fifth straight year, breaking their own Class A record of four consecutive years.
• This was the first Class AA State Championship Match since 2001 not to feature Wheaton North.
• Aside from IMSA, Stevenson. and Wheaton North, Fremd was the first new state champion since 1995.

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