2015-16 Week 1: Foothills Christian Meets Texas Team

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.  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.