2024-25 Basketball Week 4: No Change from 1 Through 8.
The January grind continues with virtually no change in the Top 10 last week as teams try to position themselves for the February stretch run. The only movement was all the way down in ninth and 10th places. St. Augustine moved up to No. 9, and San Diego High made its first appearance at No. […]
Read More2024-25 Basketball Week 3: Montgomery Loses, But Still No. 1
Olympian upset (?) Montgomery, 53-47, in a Metro Mesa League game but the voters weren’t too impressed. The Aztecs remained No. 1 in the poll and the Eagles advanced only from eighth to fifth despite an overall record of 16-2. Montgomery is 18-2. Olympian’s losses were 60-56 to Francis Parker and 63-60 to now-No. 2 […]
Read More2024-25 Basketball Week 2: No Change, No. 1 Through No. 4
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. 12. TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAXPREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Montgomery 17-1 (18) 180 1 8-9 11/10 […]
Read More2024-25 Boys Basketball Week 1: Montgomery Leads Carlsbad in Poll
San Diego Section basketball teams, after hundreds of games and enough travel to catch the attention of Triple-A, are settling into the January-February grind of league play and selected intersectionals before the Southern California playoffs. Montgomery is No. 1 in John Maffei’s latest The San Diego Union-Tribune poll and No. 8 in California, according to […]
Read More2024: Nick Barkett, Original San Diego Section basketball player of year
Nick Barkett was determined to improve his lot in the Hoover basketball program after serving as the fifth of five guards on the 26-2 team of the 1959-60 Cardinals. “He lived at Muni Gym all Summer with (John) Bocko,” remembered Cardinals coach Charlie Hampton. Barkett and Bocko spent many days, and evenings, in the vintage […]
Read More2023-24 Basketball Week 11: Happy Trails, San Diego Section Ballers
The girls from Grossmont and Montgomery closed the San Diego Section basketball season on losing notes in championship games in Sacramento. Montgomery (25-12) dropped a 56-50 decision to Oakland High (23-10) in the Division V final and Grossmont (27-8) was beaten in D-IV, 42-29, by Eureka St. Bernard (30-5). But a losing performance probably was […]
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