The Alabama high school basketball season is officially into the postseason as area tournaments kick off around the state. Area tournaments can get started on Thursday and go through Wednesday for Class 1A-6A. Class 7A, with its lack of sub regional play, gets its area tournaments start on Feb.5 and goes through the 8th.

Friday’s girls AHSAA Class 6A-1A sub-regional games and Class 7A area finals set the field — still some games to be played on Saturday — for next week’s regional action. Boys sub-regional games and most Class 7A area finals are scheduled to be played on Saturday.

Alabama State Basketball Tournament begins next week with another exciting slate of games of the opening rounds for Class 1A-7A. You can follow all of this week's matchups on High School On SI Alabama,