No. 1 Foothills Christian is scheduled to play  Cypress Lakes of Katy, Texas, in the Phoenix suburb of Goodyear, Arizona, Friday. The game is to be televised on ESPN 2 at 3:30 p.m., according to Max Preps.
Other teams in the upper half of the Union-Tribune Top 10 will be in tournament play beginning Thursday.
No. 2 St. Augustine opens against Las Vegas Cimmaron Memorial or Compton in the Rancho Santa Margarita Christmas Classic.  No. 4 Cathedral takes on Carson City, Nevada, in the Tarkanian  event in Las Vegas.
El Camino, No. 3, meets host Sweetwater in the Lions Club event in National City. No. 4 Torrey Pines will be in the Grossmont Invitational. Â San Dieguito and Army-Navy also are in the Santa Margarita tournament.
First-place votes in parenthesis.
| Rank | Team | Record | Points | Last Week |
| 1 | Foothills Christian (9) | 4-1 | 107 | 1 |
| 2 | St. Augustine (1) | 4-0 | 99 | 3 |
| 3 | El Camino (1) | 5-1 | 84 | 4 |
| 4 | Cathedral | 1-2 | 72 | 2 |
| 5 | Torrey Pines | 4-1 | 63 | 5 |
| 6 | Army-Navy | 5-2 | 53 | 6 |
| 7 | Grossmont | 4-0 | 31 | 9 |
| 8 | Kearny | 5-0 | 27 | NR |
| 9 | Mission Bay | 4-1 | 19 | 10 |
| 10 | San Marcos | 3-2 | 15 | 9 |
Points awarded on basis of 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.
NR—Not ranked.
Others receiving votes, including record: Francis Parker (4-1, 9), Vista (4-1, 8), La Jolla Country Day (5-0, 7), Christian (7-3, 5), Escondido (1-2, 4), San Ysidro (5-1, 2).
11 media representatives vote, including John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune; Steve Brand, Terry Monahan, Jim Lindgren, Union-Tribune correspondents; Bill Dickens, Adam Paul, EastCountySports.com; Rick Willis, KUSI-TV; Rick Smith, partletonsports.com; Bodie DeSilva, sandiegopreps.com; Lisa Lane, San Diego Preps Insider; Aaron Burgin, fulltimehoops.com.
