Frank Burlison

LAGUNA NIGUEL – Ten of the teams in the updated BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25 will play Friday or Saturday during the Nike Extravaganza at Mater Dei High.

The host Monarchs (No. 7/18-5) will play twice in the event, Friday night vs. Servite (in a Trinity League game) and Saturday night against Chicago Whitney Young.

Other notable Nike X match-ups include No. 2 Corona Centennial vs. Richmond Salesian (Saturday 3 o’clock); No. 3 Rancho Christian vs. Washington, DC, Gonzaga (Saturday 9 p.m.); No. 4 Etiwanda vs. No. 16 Westchester (Saturday, 4:30); and No.

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LOS ANGELES – Coach Josh Giles’ Corona Centennial High team continued to play like The 2019-20 High School Basketball Story in California Saturday night at Harbor College during the Rolling Hills State Preview/Presented by Scorebook Live.

The 21-2 Huskies rapidly turned what had been expected to be a possible down-to-the-wire matchup into nothing short of a blowout, blistering Windward (No. 10 in last week’s BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25), 66-45.

It was their 17^th consecutive win, collected in much the same fashion utilized in their 21 victories – with constant full-court pressure applied at both ends of the floor.

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TEMECULA – A clash between host Rancho Christian and Riverside Poly is the jewel in Saturday’s five-game Eagle Showcase.

The host Eagles (17-5) are No. 2 in the BurlisonOnBasketball top 25 while Riverside Poly (19-4) checks in at No. 20.

Each has a pair of players that signed with Division I programs in November: Evan Mobley (USC) and Dominick Harris (Gonzaga) for Rancho Christian and Lamont Butler (San Diego State/pictured) and D.J. Davis (UC Irvine) for the Bears.

Schedule

  1:30 p.m., Banning vs. Murrieta Mesa; 3, Linfield Christian vs.

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LOS ANGELES – The Windward High Wildcats, just two night after taking top-ranked Sierra Canyon to the wire, get a pop at No. 3 Corona Centennial Saturday night (8:20) at Harbor College in the finale of the Rolling Hills State Preview/Presented by Scorebook Live.

Coach Colin Pfaff’s Wildcats (18-6 and No. 10 in this week’s BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25) were edged by Sierra Canyon at Cal State Northridge Thursday night, 71-68.

Centennial (19-2) is taking a 15-game winning streak into its Friday night Big VIII League game at Corona Santiago.

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ANAHEIM – A 21-member, first-ever induction class for the newly created Southern California Basketball Hall of Fame was unveiled by the organization Wednesday morning.

Among the inductees are eight members of the Naismith Hall of Fame: the late Pete Newell (1979); Bill Walton and Ann Meyers-Drysdale (both 1993); Cheryl Miller (1995); Cynthia Cooper-Duke (2010); Jamaal Wilkes (2012); Lisa Leslie (2015) and Paul Westphal (2019).

Others in the group include John R. Wooden Award winners Marques Johnson (1977) and Ed O’Bannon (1995).

The group is made up of 17 those selected for their playing careers, three for their coaching achievements (including current Mater Dei Coach Gary McKnight) and one honored for his work as a basketball journalist.

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