This post is later than it should be, but hopefully still early enough to build excitement for the games tonight. And Thursday. And beyond. Anyhow, we're gonna take a too-quick look at what we said in our sectional previews last August and compare it with current realities.
SECTIONAL 1What We Said Then Kaukauna over Appleton East
What We Think Now Well, we don't think it's gonna be No. 4 seed Appleton East since they were eliminated in the first round by No. 5 Green Bay Preble/East, but there's still no reason not to think No. 1 seed Kaukauna will be punching a ticket to Tosa
SECTIONAL 2What We Said Then Nicolet over Homestead
What We Think Now Even though No. 5 Neenah upset No. 4 Fond du Lac in the first round, we're still predicting they'll have their hands full tonight against No. 1 seed Nicolet. And speaking of having their hands full, No. 3 seed Homestead will be tangling with No. 2 seed Arrowhead tonight at Arrowhead
SECTIONAL 3What We Said Then Waukesha West over Catholic Memorial
What We Think Now Hmm, we pretty much think
this link says it all: a three-way tie for the Classic Eight title that will now be settled in the Sectional 3 playoffs, starting tonight when No. 3 Waukesha West plays No. 2 Kettle Moraine
SECTIONAL 4What We Said Then Westosha Central over Middleton
What We Think Now Well, those who do the seeding think it's gonna be the other way around because Middleton is the No. 1 seed and Westosha Central is No. 2. All we'll say is we can't wait to find out how it all shakes out at Burlington on Thursday
SECTIONAL 5What We Said Then New Berlin United over Kenosha Bradford
What We Think Now Kenosha Bradford ended up being the No. 3 seed behind No. 2 Franklin so maybe the seeding people know a little more about how this will go than we did last August. And speaking of a long time ago, we still like our crazy-early
New Year's Day prediction of New Berlin United to win state so we obviously are sticking with them as the eventual winner in Sectional 5
SECTIONAL 6What We Said Then Racine Horlick over Racine Park
What We Think Now Did we say Park? We meant Case. Just kidding, but No. 6 Park did fall to No. 3 Greenfield last week in a five-set thriller. (Racine Horlick holds down the No. 1 seed.) If Greenfield can get by Case tonight, it will be a very motivated Greenfield playing at home on Thursday in the sectional final
SECTIONAL 7What We Said Then Milwaukee Marquette over West Allis Hale
What We Think Now Uh, yeah, we still like the Hilltoppers. If No. 3 Hale is going to have a shot at Marquette, though, they'll first need to get past No. 2 Pius XI
SECTIONAL 8What We Said Then Wauwatosa East over Brookfield East
What We Think Now We were clearly off on our prediction that Brookfield East would make the sectional final. The No. 6 seed fell in four to No. 3 Shorewood. According to the seeders, we could be looking at yet another Tosa East (No. 1 seed) v. Tosa West (No. 2 seed) sectional final
in Whitefish Bay for the right to go back home
to Tosa
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FIRST TEAM
Here are the stats. More to come. Wow.
Here are some stories we've found: 
Lots and lots of boys volleyball (the really cool countdown clocks at each link below will tell you when that particular game starts).
Here are Friday's quarterfinal matchups, complete with story links where we find them:
Congratulations to the eight going to state:
Here's what we're looking at, people. We'll add links to stories as we find them.
This post is later than it should be, but hopefully still early enough to build excitement for the games tonight. And Thursday. And beyond. Anyhow, we're gonna take a too-quick look at what we said in our sectional previews last August and compare it with current realities.
We don't have much time to blog today, but we do want to acknowledge first-round winners in the boys state tournament. The only results not on the WIAA brackets: Madison La Follette defeated Fort Atkinson in an FST (five set thriller) and Racine St. Catherine's over Greendale.
We know we're late with these, but we've finally backtracked to jsonline.com to identify how the teams that made it to Saturday's Highlander Invite quarterfinals finished: 
