Four private schools in Class 2A, including defending champion Iowa City Regina, made the 2015 Iowa state girls’ basketball tournament. All but one of those games are today, following Class 1A in the morning and afternoon. (Colo-NESCO tipped off against Newell-Fonda as this post went live.)
There is another factor to be noted: Based on the BEDS numbers*, seven of the eight state participants are among the largest 25 teams of the class. North-Linn is the outlier. Cascade and Unity Christian are the second- and fourth-largest schools in the class, respectively. Last year, Unity Christian was instead the smallest 3A school but finished as the state runner-up — and this year’s 3A bracket has no private schools in it.
*Tipton was in the 3A postseason and Clarion-Goldfield-Dows was in the 2A postseason, so that must be where the dividing line is.