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LAGUNA NIGUEL – The third round of the CIF Southern Section boys’ basketball playoffs is set for Tuesday night, with 40 games scheduled over the section’s 10 divisions.

And the L.A. City Section’s Open Division semifinals are scheduled to be played Saturday evening at L.A. Southwest College.

Here is a quick look at five of the Southern Section games that will be played Tuesday (in no order):

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   *Centennial at Redondo Union: The visiting Huskies take an 11-game win streak into the game, while the host Sea Hawks’ streak is at 12.

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NEWPORT BEACH –  For the second night, the Southern Section’s boys basketball Division 1 playoff division continued to demonstrate that “home-court advantage” is all but moot.

And the Open Division followed Division 1’s lead Friday night.

Following a Wednesday opening night of play in which the four top seeds – all playing on their home courts – won by an average margin of 21.5 points, a couple of visitors pulled out victories.

No. 12 seed La Mirada edged host and No. 5 St. John Bosco in Bellflower, 56-53, in Pool D.

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RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – Visiting teams hit .500 in Wednesday night’s 16 opening games of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 boys’ basketball playoffs.

But there was nothing “upsetting” in the Open Division, though, where the four visitors collectively whiffed.

The first four teams spit out of the CIF Southern Section’s computer, Sierra Canyon, Santa Margarita, Redondo Union and Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, won their Open pool games by a collective margin of 86 points.

The four third seeds in the respective pools A (Crespi), B (Damien), C (Etiwanda) and D (La Mirada) hit the road again Friday night, for round 2 against the second seeds that drew byes Wednesday.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – Twenty terrific viewing options are on tap during Wednesday’s opening night of CIF Southern Section Open and Division 1 boys’ basketball playoff action.

The No.’s 5 (St. John Bosco), 6 (Harvard-Westlake), 7 (Corona Centennial) and 11 (Corona del Mar) teams in the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 50 drew byes in the Open play with their openers coming Friday night.

But No.’s 1 Sierra Canyon (vs. 9 Crespi), 2 Redondo Union (vs. 12), 3 Santa Margarita (vs. 10 Damien) and 4 Sherman Oaks Notre Dame (vs.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – As expected, Coach Andre Chevalier’s Sierra Canyon High squad is the No. 1 seed in the CIF Southern Section’s boys basketball Open Division playoff field, announced from the section office in Los Alamitos early Saturday afternoon.

The Trailblazers (22-1) are part of a division that was expanded to 12, after another expansion brought the field from eight to 10 teams a year ago.

The 12 teams are spread, three apiece, over four pools, with action setting to tip Wednesday night at 7 o’clock and culminate in the Feb.

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