2011 IHSA State Championship Tournament

The 2010 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State Championship Tournaments ended the twenty-fifth State Championship Series conducted in Scholastic Bowl by the IHSA. It was the twentieth season in which there were separate State Championship Tournaments held for small schools (Class A) and large schools (Class AA). For the fifteenth year, both tournaments were held at the Peoria Civic Center. The tournaments were held on Friday, March 18, 2011.

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 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 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

2009 Class A IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion: Lisle

Runner-Up: Macomb

Third Place Keith Country Day

Fourth Place PORTA

POOL #1

Macomb finished 3-0 to advance to the Finals, Keith Country Day finished 2-1 and advanced to the Consolation Match, Cumberland went 1-2, and Herrin went 0-3.

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Macomb	391	Keith Country Day	181
	Cumberland	232	Herrin	175
2	Macomb	380	Cumberland	148
	Keith Country Day	330	Herrin	164
3	Macomb	281	Herrin	110
	Keith Country Day	233	Cumberland	126

POOL #2

Lisle finished 3-0 to advance to the Finals, PORTA finished 2-1 and advanced to the Consolation Match, Litchfield went 1-2, and Warrensburg-Latham went 0-3.

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	PORTA	248	Warrensburg-Latham	164
	Lisle	364	Litchfield	226
2	Lisle	353	PORTA	239
	Litchfield	215	Warrensburg-Latham	95
3	PORTA	178	Litchfield	146
	Lisle	257	Warrensburg-Latham	53

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Keith Country Day	295	PORTA	213

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Lisle	352	Macomb	268

CLASS AA

2009 Class AA IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion: IMSA

Runner-Up: Auburn

Third Place Stevenson

Fourth Place St. Ignatius

POOL #1

IMSA swept through their pool with a 3-0 record. Stevenson finished 2-1, Champaign Centennial ended at 1-2, and Lyons Township finished 0-3.

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	IMSA	530	Stevenson	208
	Champaign Centennial	239	Lyons Township	230
2	IMSA	567	Champaign Centennial	115
	Stevenson	500	Lyons Township	60
3	IMSA	510	Lyons Township	136
	Stevenson	457	Champaign Centennial	95

POOL #2

Auburn swept through their pool with a 3-0 record. St. Ignatius went 2-1 to advance to the third place match. Carbondale went 1-2, and Peoria Richwoods went 0-3.

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Auburn	422	Carbondale	232
	St. Ignatius	449	Peoria Richwoods	133
2	Carbondale	458	Peoria Richwoods	145
	Auburn	383	St. Ignatius	285
3	St. Ignatius	377	Carbondale	367
	Auburn	476	Peoria Richwoods	160

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Stevenson	390	St. Ignatius	247

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
IMSA	388	Auburn	262

Notes

• Auburn took their tenth consecutive trip to State (and tenth consecutive trip to the top four), breaking their own record of nine consecutive top-four appearances.
• This was the first year that subcategories were not announced before tossups.

2011 IHSA State Championship
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