A top eight seed will be on the line Thursday when the Delta Pacers look to take full advantage of playing on their home court in the Fraser Valley South AAAA Boys Basketball Playoff Tournament.
A perfect 7-0 run earned the Pacers the opportunity to host the league playoffs for the first time in at least 30 years. The six-team event gets underway Wednesday at Delta Secondary School.
As the top seed, DSS gets a bye to Thursday's semi-final (7 p.m.) when they will face the winner of Wednesday's opening round match-up between the fourth place
Semiahmoo Totems and the fifth place Seaquam Seahawks.
The other side of the bracket features the second place Tamanawis Wildcats taking on the winner of the Panorama Ridge/Earl Marriot quarter-final game.
All six schools will advance to next week's 24-team Fraser Valley Championships.
The first and second place finishers will avoid an elimination game and be seeded among the top eight in the double knockout stage of the tournament that will determine six berths for next month's provincial championships at the Langley Events Centre.
Coming off a first place clinching 79-71 win over Tamanawis two nights earlier, the Pacers capped league play with an easy 105-57 victory at Earl Marriott on Friday.
Despite the unblemished record, the league playoffs will by no means be a cakewalk.
Delta battled back over the final two quarters to win three of its games, including its potential Thursday opponents. The Pacers trailed Semiahmoo by 10 at the half and Seaquam by eight in 78-73 and 83-70 home court victories.
The league playoff final is slated for 7 p.m. on Friday.
The third place game goes at 5 p.m.
