By Bill Whicker

Kayhibasketball.com

Beginning Wednesday, March Madness begins in Southeast Alaska.  Boy’s and girl’s teams from Haines to Metlakatla will descend on the Clarke Cochrane gymnasium at Ketchikan High School for the annual Region V Basketball Tournament.

For the players, coaches and rabid high school basketball fans,  “Southeast” is the culminating event for the most popular sport in the Southeast Panhandle.  This year the tournament takes on a different flavor.  All 3A teams, (Craig, Haines, Mt. Edgecumbe, Petersburg, Wrangell, Sitka and Metlakatla) will be seeded in a double elimination bracket as opposed to the traditional consolation bracket of the past.  Two 3A teams will qualify for the state tournament in Anchorage.  The two 4A teams, Ketchikan and Juneau, will play a best 2 out of 3 games to determine the lone state 4A qualifier.

Follow along with the brackets on Kayhibasketball.com as the tournament progresses.