New IHSAA sectional alignments are out. Here are takeaways with teams on move.

The Indiana High School Athletic Association unveiled the new sectional alignments for the next two years in six team sports. The IHSAA executive committee unanimously accepted the recommendations of the respective realignment committees , which determined the sectional groups in meetings earlier this month for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 school years. The changes are for football, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer and volleyball.

The baseball and softball realignment committee will meet late this summer, and their recommendations will be made to executive committee at a later meeting. While there are not as many major changes as there were two years ago to the new classification metrics, which place the largest 20% of schools in 4A, next 25% in 3A, next 25% in 2A and smallest 30% in Class A, there are some changes. Here are some of my initial major takeaways from the realignment: Football >>>My eyes are always drawn to Class 6A football.

One of the biggest changes will come in the north side of the bracket with Carmel, Westfield, Fishers and Hamilton Southeastern in the same sectional. Wow. No easy route there.

It was split up during the last two-year period with Carmel and Westfield in one group and HSE and Fishers in another. >>>Zionsville jumps from the north to south side of the bracket in 6A and joins Avon, Ben Davis and two-time defending state champion Brownsburg in Sectional 5. Pike moves over to Sectional 6 with Lawrence North, Lawrence Central and North Central.