Frank Burlison

LONG BEACH, Ca. – The matchups set for the State Southern Regional boys finals are such that the collective six games, split between the Walter Pyramid at Long Beach State and Colony High in Ontario, can be called “Rematch Saturday”.

Take a gander:

*The Open Division title game (8:30 p.m./Walter Pyramid), pitting 33-0 Chino Hills and 28-2 Bishop Montgomery, is a rematch of a contest played on Jan. 30 at Cerritos College.

The Huskies, despite falling behind 17-6 and later trailing by eight points with about six minutes to go, prevailed, 71-67, in front of an elbow-to-elbow, packed building;

*Crespi and Redondo, the top seeds in Division I who meet for the right to go to Sacramento next week on Saturday at 3 o’clock in the Walt Pyramid, hooked up in Encino March 4.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – The State Southern Regional semifinals are on tap for Tuesday night, with finals set for Saturday at Ontario Colony High (Division’s III-V) and Long Beach State’s Pyramid (Open-Division II).

Here is a look at the seven regional semifinals involving matchups of teams ranked in the most recent BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25, as well as the updated Top 25:

 

1. No. 3 Foothills Christian vs. No. 1 Chino Hills at Ontario Colony High

FB Says: The third meeting, with the Huskies prevailing by 20 points on Dec.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA – OK, we’re now at the “single-elimination” point of the prep basketball season in California.

There are no longer the safety nets of the regular season or in sectional play in the Open (when a loss dropped a team into the “consolation bracket”) or the other divisions (a spot in the semifinals or at least the final likely still mean a spot in the state regional play).

It is now “one-and-done”, baby.

And that includes 31-0 and top-ranked (nationally as well as in California) Chino Hills, where a loss anytime in its final four potential games (if there is a trip to the March 26 Open state title game in Sacramento) would do a lot to render an already stunning season as a “disappointment”.

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ANAHEIM, Ca. – The Chino Hills High basketball team mowed down its final obstacle to a CIF Southern Section Open Division championship Saturday night in the same manner in which it disposed of its first three Open foes.

The Huskies improved to 31-zip with their 105-83 victory over Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (28-4) in the Honda Center and in front of a national television audience.

Over the course of the six Southern Section title games played Saturday, a total of 18,278 paid their way into the building.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – It is CIF sectional championship week in Southern California.

Oodles and oodles (that would be 12 in the Southern Section, six in the L.A. City Section and six in the San Diego Section) of pieces of title hardware will be on the line at multiple sites in L.A., Orange and San Diego counties.

The most high-profile of those championship tilts, though, will be played in the three sections’ respective Open divisions.

And the most noteworthy of those will be held at the Honda Center in Anaheim Saturday night at 6:30, when the Southern Section showdown will pit unbeaten and top-ranked (everywhere) Chino Hills against No.

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