2022-23 Week 10: Santa Fe Christian, Mater Dei Rattle the Top 10
One week to go in the regular season and the ranks have been shaken.
St. Augustine, Carlsbad, and Montgomery remained 1-2-3 in the latest Union-Tribune vote, but seven others changed positions. Most notable were Santa Fe Christian’s leapfrogging from No. 8 to No. 4 and Mater Dei’s rising from No. 9 to No. 6.
Santa Fe, its regular season complete at 25-4 and a co-champion in the Coastal League with La Jolla Country Day (19-7), defeated Army-Navy, 99-65, The Bishop’s, 77-64, and Montgomery, 70-69, last week.
The Falcons and Torreys each posted 11-1 league records. Country Day, unranked in San Diego, won the first meeting, 74-55, and the Falcons took the follow-up, 74-65. Santa Fe is ranked 66th in California by MaxPreps and Country Day 120th.
Three other teams unranked by the Union-Tribune panel, were given higher state-wide grades by the computer than Lincoln, No. 8 locally but 142 in Max’s algorithms. Del Norte is 105th, San Diego 114th, and El Camino 122nd.
Mater Dei is 7-4 in the Metro Mesa circuit, third to Montgomery’s 10-0 and San Ysidro’s 8-2. The Crusaders moved up by the strength of a 92-86 win over San Ysidro after a 74-65 defeat of Otay Ranch. The Crusaders finish Wednesday against Olympian.
The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 10 poll:
First-place votes in parenthesis.
Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
First-place votes in parenthesis. Last entries in columns indicate previous rank.
Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ represent state rankings. NR—Not ranked.
| # | TEAM | RECORD | POINTS | PREVIOUS | MAX-PREPS | CAL-HI SPORTS |
| 1 | St. Augustine | 22-4 (19) | 190 | 1 | 9/5 | 6/7 |
| 2 | Carlsbad | 21-5 | 165 | 2 | 40/29 | NR/On the Bubble |
| 3 | Montgomery | 22-4 | 145 | 3 | 48/46 | NR/NR |
| 4 | Santa Fe Christian | 25-4 | 114 | 8 | 66/72 | NR/NR |
| 5 | San Ysidro | 15-11 | 94 | 4 | 71/67 | NR/NR |
| 6 | Mater Dei | 20-7 | 79 | 9 | 78/89 | NR/NR |
| 7 | Mission Bay | 19-7 | 77 | 5 | 81/79 | NR/NR |
| 8 | Lincoln | 23-2 | 71 | 7 | 142/147 | NR/NR |
| 9 | Torrey Pines | 18-7 | 69 | 6 | 63/72 | NR/NR |
| 10 | La Costa Canyon | 14-11 | 27 | NR | 76 | NR/NR |
Others receiving votes
La Jolla Country Day (19-7, 6 points), Victory Christian (16-8, 3), El Camino (17-7, 2), Ramona (16-9, 2), Del Norte (15-7, 1).
VOTING PANEL
- John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune.
- Steve Brand, Terry Monahan, Eric Williams, Freelance contributors.
- Rick Smith, partletonsports.com.
- Adam Paul, eastcountysports.com.
- John Kentera, Braden Supremant (97.3 FM The Fan).
- Bodie DeSilva, scoreboardlive.com.
- Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country 107.9 FM.
- Christian Pedersen, San Diego Sports Association.
- Todd Cassen, Joe Heinz, Ron Marquez, CIF San Diego Section.
- Rex Johnson, CIF Advisory Committee.
- Joe Evangelist, San Diego Coaching Legends Committee.
- Tom Helmantoler, Southern Conference Advisor.
- Aaron Burgin, fulltimehoops.com.
- Max-Preps.