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CIF Northern Section 2024 girls basketball playoffs: Updated scores, matchups, brackets, game times (2-17-2024)

Top four seeds advance to Division 3 semifinals; Championship games secured in Divisions 6, 7

Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports

The 2023 CIF Northern Section girls basketball playoffs continue Tuesday after few surprises in quarterfinal play. 

The top four seeds advanced in Division 3 (NS's top division) with No. 2 Chico, third-seed Foothill and No. 4 Shasta all rolling to double-digit wins on Thursday. Top seed Pleasant Valley earned a bye and will host Shasta on Tuesday. 

In D4, top-seed University Prep defeated No. 8 Orland, 73-54 and faces fifth seed Winters in a semifinal game on Tuesday. Second-seed West Valley and No. 3 also rolled into the semis. 

In D5, Trinity rolled into the finals after a 32-23 win over Portola and away the winner of Quincy and Modoc on Tuesday for the section title on Feb. 24. In D6, top seed Weed and No. 3 Fall River advanced to the finals with easy semifinal wins. In D6, fourth-seed Chester pulled off a 30-28 win over top seed Hayfork and will face third-seed Loyalton, a 47-36 win over Butte Valley, in the Feb. 24 championship. 

The CIF-SJS released its girls basketball playoff matchups Feb. 10 and will conclude Feb. 23-24. with games across all five divisions.

Top seeds in each divisions are: Pleasant Valley (D3), University Prep (D4), Quincy (D5), Weed (D6) and Hayfork (D7).

Defending champions are: Pleasant Valley (D3), Lassen (D4), Fall River (D5), Weed (D6) and Butte Valley (D7).

Check the brackets below for the latest matchups, game times and scores:

2023 CIF NORTHERN SECTION GIRLS BAKSETBALL BRACKETS

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Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports
MITCH STEPHENS, SBLIVE SPORTS

Mitch Stephens is a senior editor at SBLive Sports for California, a state he's covered high school sports since 1984. He won multiple CNPA and CPSWA writing awards with the Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Chronicle and MaxPreps.com before joining the SBLive staff in 2022. He's covered the beat nationally since 2007, profiling such athletes as Derrick Henry, Paige Bueckers, Patrick Mahomes, Sabrina Ionescu, Jayson Tatum, Chiney Ogwumike, Jeremy Lin and Najee Harris as preps. You can reach him at mitch@scorebooklive.com.

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