Brophy volleyball tournament schedule
April 4, 2014 by Jose Garcia, AZPreps365
The last big boys volleyball tournament of the season kicks off Friday at Brophy, the annual host of this year's Brophy Invitational.
Last year's winner of the tournament, Highland, went on to win the Division I title. Five teams currently ranked in the top-10 of aia365.com's rankings will participate in this year's Brophy Invitational.
Below are the the names of the schools participating in the tournament and schedule for the two-day tournament.
Teams
Pool A
No. 1 Hamilton
No. 2 Brophy
No. 3 Highland
No. 4 Mountain View
Pool B
No. 1 Mesa
No. 2 Boulder Creek
No. 3 Gilbert
No. 4 Desert Vista
Schedule
Friday
Teams play opponents in their pools.
12 p.m.: No. 1s vs. No. 4s
12:45 p.m.: No. 2s vs. No. 3s
1:30 p.m.: No. 1s vs. 3s
2:15 p.m.: No. 2s vs. No. 4s
3 p.m.: No. 3s vs. No. 4s
3:45 p.m.: No. 1s vs. No. 2s
Teams from different pools face off.
4:45 p.m.: Pool A’s No. 1 winner vs. Pool B No. 1 winner. Winner earns No. 1 seed in Saturday’s elimination portion of the tournament; loser is No. 2. Seed.
4:45 p.m.: Pool A’s No. 2 finisher vs. Pool B’s No. 2 finisher. Winner earns No. 3 seed for Saturday; loser gets No. 4.
5:45 p.m.: Pool B’s No. 3 finisher vs. Pool B’s No. 3 finisher. Winner earns No. 5 seed; loser gets No. 6.
5:45 p.m.: Pool A’s No. 4 finisher vs. Pool B’s No. 4 finisher. Winner earns No. 7 seed; loser gets No. 8.
Saturday
9 a.m.: No. 1 seed vs. No. 8; No. 2 seed vs. No. 7.
10 a.m.: No. 4 seed vs. No. 5; No. 3 seed vs. No. 6.
11 a.m.: No. 1 vs. 8 loser vs. No. 3 vs. 6 loser.
11 a.m: No. 2 vs. No. 7 loser vs. No. 4 vs. No. 5 loser.
Noon: No. 1 vs. No. 8 winner vs. No. 4 vs. No. 5 winner.
Noon: No. 2 vs. No. 7 winner vs. No. 3 vs. No. 6 winner.
1 p.m.: quarterfinals.
2 p.m. semifinals.
3 p.m.: third place match.
4 p.m.: championship match.