2013-14: Foothills Coach Not Quite Boeheim
There are 20.8 seconds remaining in the game. Your team trails, 57-54, after battling back from down 14. A blocking foul is whistled on one of your players. The frustration finally got to Foothills Christian coach Brad Leaf. Leaf channeled his inner Jim Boeheim and was slapped with a technical. The Knights mentor’s outburst at […]
Read More2013-14: Great Matchups in Open Final 4
There will be basketball almost every night this week in the San Diego Section. Girls begin quarterfinals play in Divisions II, III, and IV tonight and  Tuesday night. Boys tip Tuesday night in II, III, and IV. Open semifinals are Tuesday and Wednesday and finals  Saturday at the Jenny Craig Pavilion on the University of […]
Read More2013-14: Saints No. 1 Here, 18th in State
St. Augustine is top-ranked in the final UT-San Diego regular-season poll and is the defending state champion in Division III as playoff teams enter the homestretch of the season. Coach Mike Haupt’s team,  29-4 a year ago, take a 26-2 record into this season’s playoffs and are ranked 18th in the state by Cal-Hi Sports. St. Augustine finished […]
Read More2013-14: Basketball’s Second Season Begins
Seventeen teams with losing records and three .500 squads  made the San Diego Section playoffs. It doesn’t look as ridiculous as in previous years. Pairings announced Saturday promise good games, even in early rounds, especially considering size of brackets and number of divisions. Only in Division II is there virtual mediocrity. Seven of the eight, […]
Read More2013-14: Playoff Seeding and Pairings Next
Selection Saturday is just five days away. League play wraps up this week, but all eyes are on the postseason and the ensuing rounds that lead to the state championships in Sacramento next month. Seedings and pairings for the San Diego Section playoffs, to be waged in 5 divisions,  will come out of  Section commissioner […]
Read More2013-14: Sweetwater Runs to Fourth in Poll
Echoes of Gary Zarecky’s fast-breaking teams of the 1980’s are being heard at Sweetwater, where the Runnin’ Red Devils now are 16-0 and inching higher in the UT-San Diego weekly poll. An 82-66 victory over Morse last week was preceded by five games in which coach Jesse Aguirre’s team scored at least 90 points and […]
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