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   LAGUNA NIGUEL – The teams making up the CIF Southern Section’s Open Division playoff field and the top two slots in the L.A. City Open Division bracket comprise the first 10 spots in the latest BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25 of the teams in Southern California.

   Of course, that was the case last week, as well.

  The Southern Section’s four Open playoff games this week are the most high-profile of the week’s opening playoff contests.

  Outside of the games in that division – and, barring a stunner, inevitable Fairfax-Westchester showdown for the L.A.

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  LAGUNA NIGUEL – Friday’s opening of the 2019 CIF Southern Section Open Division boys’ basketball playoffs will mirror the conclusion of the 2018 SS Open playoffs – with Mater Dei taking on Sierra Canyon.

   No. 2 seed Sierra Canyon will play host to No. 7 Mater Dei Friday at a site to be determined (possibly Simi Valley High).

  Top seed (based upon its win against Sierra Canyon Saturday night at Pasadena City College) Rancho Christian will open against No. 8 Bishop Montgomery – a program that won two of the first five Open championships – at a site to be determined in the Temecula.

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  PASADENA – Some – or, more accurately, many – may have looked at Saturday night’s Rancho Christian-Sierra Canyon boys’ basketball game at Pasadena City College as a “sneak preview” of the Feb. 23 CIF Southern Section Open Division champion game.

   Well, if that does prove to be the case, that’s going to prove to be a heck of a showdown at Cal Baptist University in Riverside.

   That was certainly the case at PCC Saturday night.

   Rancho Christian, trailing by nine points after Scotty Pippen Jr.’s

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  SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Ca. – The eighth-grade brother of a 2019 McDonald’s All-American was among the many standouts during the Jan. 26&27 West Coast Elite Junior All-American Camp at JSerra High.

  The camp featured 200-plus athletes from the fifth thru the eighth grades.

   Six-foot-four Ky Green (Parkridge Middle School in Peoria, AZ), whose brother, University of Arizona-bound Josh Green was a recent McD’s AA selection as a senior at IMG Academy in Bradenton, FL, dominated much of the camp via high spectacular jumping as well as his jump shooting and driving.

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  PASADENA – Southern California’s two-best boys’ basket teams hook up Saturday night at Pasadena City College for the first of what could eventually be three meetings this season.

   Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (24-2) and Temecula Rancho Christian (22-4), No.’s 1 and 2 in the CIF Southern Section Division I ratings, hook up at 7:30 in the last contest of a triple-header.

    The winner of the clash will be the No. 1 seed and the loser No. 2 when the Southern Section unveils its eight-team Open Division playoff field Sunday at noon (PT).

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