State Preview with nine games on Colony Saturday

January 20, 2023 By Frank Burlison Leave a Comment

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ONTARIO, CA – The annual State Preview Classic, presented by SBLive, and held at Colony High, is set for Saturday with a nine-game schedule, featuring some of the region’s top boys’ basketball teams.

Three teams from among the first 12 in the BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25 – and three more in that group – are among those in the field.

Games are set to get underway at 9 o’clock in the morning, when No. 24 San Pedro Rolling Hills (the event is the brainchild of RHP Coach Harvey Kitani) faces Hacienda Heights Los Altos.

No. 2 Harvard-Westlake (21-1 before its home Mission League game with No. 6 Sierra Canyon Friday night) takes on Rancho Verde and its 6-10 Houston-bound center Jacob McFarland at 7:30 p.m. – ninety minutes before another Mission League team, No. 11 Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, is challenged by Northern California’s top-ranked team, 17-1 San Ramon Dougherty Valley.

And, in an Orange County tussle, No. 12 Mater Dei takes on No. 23 Crean Lutheran. Each team has multiple outstanding freshmen.

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