2024-25 Basketball Girls Playoffs Week 1: Oh, my! Number 14 Chula Vista Wins
There were three so-called surprises (highlighted below) in the Girls’ first round, but one of those reversals was an upset. No, it was much more than that, Fourteen seed Chula Vista, coming in with a 9-17 record, shocked third-ranked Horizon Prep, which entered the game with a 16-4 record, 44-35. Play resumes with Boys action […]
Read More2024-25 Basketball Boys Playoffs Week 1: Few Surprises in First Round
80 teams and 40 games opened the San Diego Section Boys playoffs last night. Girls first-round competition is tonight. Surprises, the polite term for upsets, were few. Six that are highlighted below. Most significant was Helix (12-17) a 14 seed but with a long tradition of success, defeating No. 3 and 21-6 Christian, 43-41, in […]
Read More2024-25 End of Regular Season: Girls Champions Set Sights on Playoffs
Twenty-eight teams won or shared 24 league championships, according to Max Preps, which provides editorial content as supplied by respondents. Lincoln was the competitive champion in the Central League but was suspended from the playoffs, giving a league co-title to Canyon Hills and Coronado. There were no signs of life in the Manzanita League; its […]
Read More2024-25 Week 7: Boys League Champions Gear for Second Season
What’s in a league championship? Especially in this era of power ratings and strengths of schedules and what they mean in playoff pairings and postseason division assignments, which were to be announced today. A league title represents essentially just bragging rights, but ask the players and coaches who achieved it and what they think when […]
Read More2024-25 Week 6: First 4 Separates From Next 6
John Maffei’s weekly The San Diego Union poll. First place votes in parenthesis. […]
Read More2024-25 Basketball Week 5: No 1 Montgomery Makes it Unanimous
John Maffei’s weekly The San Diego Union poll. First-place votes in parenthesis. Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. Bold entries in columns are up-to-date rankings, followed by previous. Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max-Preps’ represent state rankings. NR—Not ranked. Records as of Feb 2. TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAXPREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Montgomery 22-2 (18) 180 1 11/13 16/15 […]
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