2025 Winter Sport Rolling of the Peas

The Rolling of the Peas is a tri-annual (fall, winter, spring) blind drawing that determines the state final pairings in IHSA bracketed team sports. The 2024-25 winter drawing was held at the IHSA Office on January 13. This drawing covered the winter sports of girls basketball, boys basketball, and dual team wrestling, as well as Scholastic Bowl. The IHSA staff members made the drawings. Traditionally, the pairings are made by ordering the sites that feed into the state finals in alphabetical order and numbering them. Then numbered peas are drawn from a bottle. The number on the first pea drawn represents the site whose winner will occupy the first position on the bracket, and so on. "The rolling of the peas" dates back to at least 1940. For more information on the history of the Rolling of the Peas, click here.

Class 1A Scholastic Bowl
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: Fairfield Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: Williamsville Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: Port Byron (Riverdale) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: Elmwood Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: Maroa (M.-Forsyth) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: Sparta Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: Raymond (Lincolnwood) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: TBA Sectional [2023-24: Evanston (Roycemore)]

Class 2A Scholastic Bowl
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: Macomb Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: TBA Sectional [2023-24: New Lenox (Providence Catholic)]
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: Aurora (Waubonsie Valley) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: TBA Sectional [2023-24: Normal (Community)]
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: Belvidere (H.S.) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: Alton (Sr.) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: Hinsdale (Central) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: Lincolnshire (Stevenson) Sectional

Class 1A Boys Wrestling
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: Match 2 of Vandalia Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: Match 1 of Oregon Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: Match 1 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Coal City]
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: Match 2 of Tolono (Unity) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: Match 1 of Vandalia Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: Match 2 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Coal City]
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: Match 2 of Oregon Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: Match 1 of Tolono (Unity) Sectional

Class 2A Boys Wrestling
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: Match 2 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Wauconda]
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: Match 1 of Lincoln Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: Match 2 of Chicago (Brother Rice) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: Match 1 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Rochelle]
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: Match 2 of Lincoln Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: Match 1 of Chicago (Brother Rice) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: Match 1 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Wauconda]
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: Match 2 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Rochelle]

Class 3A Boys Wrestling
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: Match 1 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Downers Grove (South)]
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: Match 2 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Rockton (Hononegah)]
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: Match 2 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Addison (A. Trail)]
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: Match 1 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Joliet (West)]
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: Match 1 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Addison (A. Trail)]
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: Match 2 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Downers Grove (South)]
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: Match 2 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Joliet (West)]
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: Match 1 of TBA Sectional [2023-24: Rockton (Hononegah)]

Boys Individual Wrestling
Starting weight of the championship bouts at state final: 175 lbs.

Girls Individual Wrestling
Starting weight of the championship bouts at state final: 145 lbs.

Boys Dual Team Wrestling Sectional Pairings
In boys dual team wrestling, the regional winners will be paired at the sectional level as follows:
The names of the four regional sites will be alphabetized according to standard IHSA naming protocol and labeled A through D.
The first sectional match (Match 1) will pair the winner of Regional #[A,B,C or D] and the winner of Regional #[A,B,C or D].
The second sectional match (Match 2) will pair the winner of Regional #[A,B,C or D] and the winner of Regional #[A,B,C or D].
The winners of Match 1 and Match 2 will both advance to the state final tournament. The pairings for the state final tournament are outlined above.

Class 1A Girls Basketball
Semifinal bracket position #1: Farmer City (Blue Ridge) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: Okawville Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: Brimfield Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: Elgin (Harvest Christian Academy) Supersectional

Class 2A Girls Basketball
Semifinal bracket position #1: Manlius (Bureau Valley) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: Tolono (Unity) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: Vandalia Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: River Forest (Dominican University) Supersectional

Class 3A Girls Basketball
Semifinal bracket position #1: Rochelle Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: TBA Supersectional [2023-24: Chicago (St. Ignatius College Prep)]
Semifinal bracket position #3: Taylorville Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: Arlington Heights (Hersey) Supersectional

Class 4A Girls Basketball
Semifinal bracket position #1: Bloomington (Illinois Wesleyan U.) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: Hinsdale (Central) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: Gurnee (Warren) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: Arlington Heights (Hersey) Supersectional

Class 1A Boys Basketball
Semifinal bracket position #1: Charleston (Eastern Illinois U.) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: Normal (ISU) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: Jacksonville (Jacksonville Bowl) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: DeKalb (NIU) Supersectional

Class 2A Boys Basketball
Semifinal bracket position #1: Carbondale (SIU) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: Sterling (H.S.) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: Joliet (Central) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: Springfield (Bank of Springfield Center) Supersectional

Class 3A Boys Basketball
Semifinal bracket position #1: Pontiac Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: Chicago (UIC) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: Hoffman Estates (NOW Arena) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: Springfield (Bank of Springfield Center) Supersectional

Class 4A Boys Basketball
Semifinal bracket position #1: Normal (ISU) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: Hoffman Estates (NOW Arena) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: Chicago (UIC) Supersectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: DeKalb (NIU) Supersectional

Sectional Pairings
In boys and girls basketball, some sectionals are seeded in their entirety ("sectional complexes") and some are seeded in two separate groups ("subsectionals"). The seeds are then distributed among four regionals for the first level of competition. In the sectional semifinals, the regional champions are paired as follows:

Sectional complex: The regional containing the #1 seed is paired with the regional containing the #4 seed, while the regional containing the #2 seed is paired with the regional containing the #3 seed.

Two subsectionals: The regional containing the #1 seed of subsectional A is paired with the regional containing the #2 seed of subsectional B, while the regional containing the #1 seed of subsectional B is paired with the regional containing the #2 seed of subsectional A. An exception to these pairings is made for the southernmost sectional in Class 4A. In these sectionals, the regional winners from the Metro-East area will play at a local site. The regional winners from central Illinois will play their semifinal at another site. The sectional championship game will be played at the sectional site.

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