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Friday on my mind for SoCal prep playoffs

February 22, 2013 By Frank Burlison 1 Comment

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – Oh, yes . . . we’ve now entered the realm of the very good games, across the board realm of the high school playoffs on the CIF Southern and L.A. City sections.

The Southern Section’s divisions 1 and 2 are into the quarterfinals Friday night, with the remainder of the Southern Section’s divisions are into their semifinals, as is the City Section’s Division I.

Let’s take a look at some of those Friday night matchups, all of which are scheduled to tip at 7, as well as the City Division I semifinals that will be played Saturday evening at Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson:

SOUTHERN SECTION

 1AA: No.

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Week II on tap for SoCal high school playoffs

February 18, 2013 By Frank Burlison 4 Comments

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – Here we go, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen:

My look at the second week of the CIF’s Southern and L.A. City sections’ hoops playoffs.

And I’ll start with the toughest division of them all as Tuesday’s second-round (Round of 16 for L.A. City and first four Southern Section divisions) games rapidly approach . . .

SOUTHERN SECTION

  1AA: Top seed Santa Ana Mater Dei (at Downey Warren), No. 2 Long Beach Poly (home to Lakewood Mayfair) and No. 6 Etiwanda (home to Temecula Great Oak) shouldn’t be too severely challenged en route to Friday’s quarterfinal round.

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A quick look at SoCal boys hoops playoffs

February 15, 2013 By Frank Burlison 4 Comments

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – Sorry for the delay in putting this up but here are some observations about the fields and brackets for the CIF Southern Section and L.A. City boy’s hoops playoffs . . .

As had been anticipated, the Southern Section’s 1AA 32-team bracket shapes up as the most competitive in either section.

In reality, there are probably seven of the best 15 teams in Southern California in this division. Those included top seed Santa Ana Mater, followed (in order of seed) by Long Beach Poly, Corona Centennial, Mission Viejo, Rancho Cucamonga, Etiwanda and L.A.

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Southern California high school team ratings

February 10, 2013 By Frank Burlison 447 Comments

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – The CIF Southern Section and L.A. City playoffs get under way this coming week.

The following is my Top 15 rankings for teams from those sections – and include ONLY those teams that I watched in person during the regular season.

Among those I didn’t see in the regular season were Riverside JW North and Los Angeles Pacific Hills.

So here we go:

1.Santa Ana Mater Dei (CIF SS 1AA);

2. Torrance Bishop Montgomery (SS 4AA);

3. Long Beach Poly (SS 1AA);

4.

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Nine times the fun during Nike Extravaganza Saturday

February 3, 2013 By Frank Burlison 2 Comments

SANTA ANA, Ca. – Some 14 hours and 40 minutes after the first of what were to be nine games tipped off, the host Mater Dei High Monarchs finally held off Los Angeles Westchester, 63-60, very late Saturday night during the second and final day of the 18th Nike Extravaganza.

And, ooh, what a long day it was.

But for those who endured – and that’s as appropriate a word as I can conjure at the moment – the entirety of the nine games, it was worth the investment of a posterior likely to feel the impact of all that sitting and watching for at least a few days.

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Frank Burlison is a well-regarded basketball writer who was inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame in 2005. His opinions on the potential of high school and college players are widely respected and sought by college coaches and NBA scouts, personnel directors and general managers from coast to coast. Oh, yes – he can offer plenty of thoughts on movies, television and pop music. Yes, he can rank those, too. Hint: He’s a big The Godfather, Larry Sanders, The Wire and The Beatles loyalist.

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