2015 IHSA State Championship Tournament

The 2015 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State Championship Tournaments ended the twenty-ninth State Championship Series conducted in Scholastic Bowl by the IHSA. It was the twenty-fourth season in which there were separate State Championship Tournaments held for small schools (Class A) and large schools (Class AA). For the nineteenth year, both tournaments were held at the Peoria Civic Center. The tournaments were held on a Friday, March 20.

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: Urbana (University)

Runner-Up: Peoria Christian

Third Place Newman Central Catholic

Fourth Place Southwestern

POOL #1

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Riverton	210	Nashville	170
	Peoria Christian	280	Southwestern	220
2	Peoria Christian	330	Riverton	170
	Southwestern	230	Nashville	80
3	Southwestern	230	Riverton	190
	Peoria Christian	280	Nashville	140

POOL #2

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Urbana (University)	330	Lisle	200
	Newman Central Catholic	400	Casey-Westfield	130
2	Newman Central Catholic	390	Lisle	120
	Urbana (University)	320	Casey-Westfield	130
3	Lisle	210	Casey-Westfield	110
	Urbana (University)	370	Newman Central Catholic	240

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Newman Central Catholic	210	Southwestern	170

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Urbana (University)	210	Peoria Christian	190

CLASS AA

2014 Class AA IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion: Auburn

Runner-Up: Hinsdale Central

Third Place Fremd

Fourth Place IMSA

POOL #1

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Fremd	390	Carbondale	310
	Auburn	400	Dunlap	240
2	Fremd	290	Dunlap	280
	Auburn	390	Carbondale	310
3	Auburn	430	Fremd	270
	Dunlap	330	Carbondale	280

POOL #2

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Hinsdale Central	330	IMSA	240
	Bloomington	390	Homewood-Flossmoor	210
2	Hinsdale Central	370	Homewood-Flossmoor	210
	IMSA	370	Bloomington	240
3	Hinsdale Central	390	Bloomington	330
	IMSA	520	Homewood-Flossmoor	80

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Fremd	350	IMSA	300

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Auburn	480	Hinsdale Central	240

2015 IHSA State Championship
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