Alabama high school boys basketball Playoff Pick 'Em Challenge: Make your Region 1st Round predictions

The Alabama (AHSAA) high school boys basketball Region 1st Round tips off Tuesday, Feb. 11: Check out our picks, and then make yours!

Sam Brown | Feb 10, 2025

Hillcrest High's Rashaad Everette (23) gets a break away lay up against Vestavia Hills at Hillcrest High School Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. / Gary Cosby Jr. / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

The Alabama high school boys basketball playoffs roll on this week with the Region 1st Round tipping off on Tuesday, Feb. 11 for some classes.

Brackets have been released, and with that comes your chance to play the High School on SI Playoff Pick 'Em Challenge.

Here are all the matchups in the Region 1st Round of the Alabama high school boys basketball playoffs, with Sam Brown's predicted winners and links to make your picks.

Region 1st Round 6A matchups, predicted winners

Mae Jemison vs. Pinson Valley: Mae Jemison (Make your pick)

Clay-Chalkville vs. Hazel Green: Clay-Chalkville (Make your pick)

Theodore vs. Park Crossing: Theodore (Make your pick)

McGill-Toolen vs. Wetumpka: Wetumpka (Make your pick)

Mountain Brook vs. Oxford: Mountain Brook (Make your pick)

Huffman vs. Gadsden City: Huffman (Make your pick)

Benjamin Russell vs. Northridge: Northridge (Make your pick)

Chelsea vs. Paul W. Bryant: Paul W. Bryant (Make your pick)

Sam went 9-6 on last week's picks.

Other classifications

To play the Pick 'Em Challenge in other classifications, follow the links on the Alabama bracket home page.

Playoff Pick 'Em

Playoff Pick 'Em is a brand-new bracket prediction challenge for high school sports, where users compete to pick the most accurate bracket. The contest is free-to-play and is available nationwide for most sports on High School On SI. Enter today and pick your favorite teams to take home the title!

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Published Feb 10, 2025

SAM BROWN

Sam Brown covers high school sports as well as NCAA football and basketball. Sam began his professional career as a high school sports reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville where he covered boys and girls prep sports full-time and helped cover Vanderbilt football, Tennessee Titans football and Nashville Predators hockey. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a double major in journalism and communication studies and currently lives in Seattle with his girlfriend and dog.