2023 WPIAL Basketball Tournament Central

Monday, February 13, 2023

Tickets can also be purchased in advance at the Petersen Events Center box office (located in the upper concourse level) on Wednesday, March 1 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. General admission tickets will be $10 plus fees (no student tickets are available) and reserved seating tickets will be $20. Pre-K children will be admitted free of charge with an adult.

All fans entering must purchase a gate ticket, have an electronic ticket, have a Ticketmaster pre-purchased printed ticket, or a 2022-2023 WPIAL Courtesy Pass. Fans that purchase reserved seating tickets will be permitted to move to general admission seating at the conclusion of their ticket’s games. Gates open one hour before the day’s first game.

The 2023 WPIAL Boys’ & Girls’ Basketball Championships will begin on Thursday, February 16 and conclude at the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center from March 2-4. Postseason qualifiers are determined through section play, with sections containing seven teams or less providing four qualifiers and sections with eight teams providing five qualifiers. If ties can not be broken for a qualifier spot, then every team within that tie will qualify for the postseason.

Each classification champion and additional teams qualify for the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) Boys’ & Girls’ Basketball Championships. In boys’ basketball, seven teams qualify from 2A, 3A, 4A, and 5A, five teams qualify from 1A, and three teams qualify from 6A. In girls’ basketball, eight teams qualify from 2A, seven teams qualify from 3A and 5A, six teams qualify from 4A, five teams qualify from 1A, and four teams qualify from 6A. PIAA bracket placement will be determined via consolation brackets, with teams’ qualification and seeding based on how they fare in “play-back” contests.

The results in the table will be updated as they are reported to the WPIAL office. Information for the 2023 WPIAL Boys’ & Girls’ Basketball Championships can be found below.

WPIAL 6A Boys’ Basketball Championship Game: Saturday, March 4 at 7:00 PM
WPIAL 5A Boys’ Basketball Championship Game: Thursday, March 2 at 9:00 PM
WPIAL 4A Boys’ Basketball Championship Game: Friday, March 3 at 9:00 PM
WPIAL 3A Boys’ Basketball Championship Game: Friday, March 3 at 5:00 PM
WPIAL 2A Boys’ Basketball Championship Game: Saturday, March 4 at 1:00 PM
WPIAL 1A Boys’ Basketball Championship Game: Thursday, March 2 at 5:00 PM

WPIAL 6A Girls’ Basketball Championship Game: Friday, March 3 at 7:00 PM
WPIAL 5A Girls’ Basketball Championship Game: Saturday, March 4 at 5:00 PM
WPIAL 4A Girls’ Basketball Championship Game: Saturday, March 4 at 3:00 PM
WPIAL 3A Girls’ Basketball Championship Game: Friday, March 3 at 3:00 PM
WPIAL 2A Girls’ Basketball Championship Game: Thursday, March 2 at 7:00 PM
WPIAL 1A Girls’ Basketball Championship Game: Saturday, March 4 at 11:00 AM

2022 Championship Games:

• 6A Boys’: Fox Chapel 43, North Hills 36
• 5A Boys’: Laurel Highlands 60, New Castle 58 (2OT)
• 4A Boys’: Quaker Valley 61, Montour 52
• 3A Boys’: Shady Side Academy 66, Avonworth 54
• 2A Boys’: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 60, Fort Cherry 36
• 1A Boys’: Bishop Canevin 58, Union 45

• 6A Girls’: Mt. Lebanon 55, Upper St. Clair 44
• 5A Girls’: South Fayette 57, Chartiers Valley 48
• 4A Girls’: Blackhawk 55, Knoch 35
• 3A Girls’: North Catholic 48, Freedom Area 43
• 2A Girls’: Neshannock 55, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 31
• 1A Girls’: Bishop Canevin 59, Aquinas Academy 40