Harvard-Westlake (27-1), the two-time defending state champion, obtained the No. 1 seed for the Southern Part Open Division boys’ basketball playoffs Saturday. Ten groups have been chosen, with the event damaged down into two five-team swimming pools.
It’s the primary time pc rankings have been used to position groups in divisions. In earlier years, groups knew their divisions earlier than the season primarily based on the earlier two years of performances, then advisory panels helped create seedings. Now groups are put into divisions primarily based on their rankings utilizing an algorithm by sports activities know-how and media firm SB Reside Sports activities. No wild-card video games are being performed.
Harvard-Westlake opens the playoffs with a house sport in opposition to No. 9 La Mirada on Wednesday and can host all through pool play that ends Feb. 25. Additionally within the Wolverines’ pool are No. 4 Santa Margarita, No. 5 Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and No. 8 JSerra. No. 2 Eastvale Roosevelt leads its pool with No. 3 St. John Bosco, No. 6 Sierra Canyon, No. 7 Redondo Union and No. 10 Heritage Christian.
Roosevelt hosts St. John Bosco on Feb. 25 in a potential pool decider. The 2 pool winners meet the next week for the Open Division title. Additionally solely eight of the ten groups are assured state playoff video games, so a tiebreaker process is in place, beginning with wins/losses within the pool, then head-to-head matchups.
For Open Division ladies, the brand new child on the block, 25-1 Ontario Christian, obtained the No. 1 seed for an eight-team bracket that features two-time defending state champion Etiwanda, which is seeded No. 2 after successful its twenty fifth consecutive Baseline League title.
In Ontario Christian’s pool are No. 4 Sierra Canyon, No. 5 Bishop Montgomery and No. 8 Sage Hill. Ontario Christian hosts Sierra Canyon on Feb. 22. Etiwanda’s pool consists of No. 3 Mater Dei, No. 6 Windward and No. 7 Fairmont Prep. Mater Dei has been weakened by an harm to Kaeli Wynn, one among its greatest gamers.