An abbreviated Division IV only version of the Thursday Thoughts as we head out to cover the Division III quarterfinals tomorrow night and all four championship games at UNH on Sunday.

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 As we head into the final week of the regular season we are going to do some Bracketology work. 

 Below we have forecasted the final standings and first-round match-ups.
 

 (16) Hinsdale at (1) Woodsville

 (9) Farmington at  (8) Groveton

 (13) Sunapee at (4) Littleton

 (12) Lin Wood at (5) Portsmouth Christian

 (15) Pittsburg-Canaan at (2) Concord Christian

 (10) Profile at (7) Derryfield

 (11) Newmarket at (6) Holy Family

 (14) Gorham at (3) Epping

First team out: Colebrook

Division IV

Division IV Standings and Scoring Leaders

Gold Level Coaches/Supporters: Buddy Trask of Colebrook, Mark Collins of Groveton, Jay Darrah of Pittsfield, Nick Fiset of Epping, Jamie Walker of Woodsville, David Bedard of Franklin, Matt Manning of Lin Wood & Trevor Howard of Littleton

Notes: How about Hinsdale!! The Derryfield Cougars learned that the myth of the Carl Anderson Dome is very real as the Pacers earned a 61-48 victory behind 31 points from Brayden Eastman….Woodsville needs to win both of their games against Littleton to secure the top seed. Concord Christian has nine wins against tournament teams (supposing the field above), while the Engineers have five wins……….Colebrook point guard Kaiden Dowse is out for the season with a wrist injury…..Epping all-state guard Owen Finklestein scored his 1,000th career point in an overtime win over Portsmouth Christian on Tuesday night…..Thomas Ferdinando of Derryfield and Cam Clermont of Lin Wood go into the final games of the season tied for the scoring title at 22.6 points per game……..Moultonborough got their first win over Lisbon, 46-41….If Derryfield and Profile do indeed meet in the playoffs, I’m willing to bet there are more 3-pointers taken in that game than 2-pointers…It’ll be close…..the drive from Pittsburg to Concord Christian would be 3 hours each way by bus.