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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – If you were looking for anything approaching “surprises” in Southern California high school basketball Friday night, you’d better not have come nosing around the CIF Southern Section’s Open Division.

The debut of arguably the strongest “sectional” playoff anywhere in high school hoops pretty much was status quo along seed lines.

The only thing that quality as a “seed upset” really wasn’t much of one at all, with No. 9 seed Inglewood, down by many as 17 points in the first, rallying to knock off host and No.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – The Chino Hills High boys basketball team is unbeaten and ranked No. 1 in California, as well as being the top seed in the third CIF Southern Section Open Playoff.

Better yet, Coach Steve Baik’s Huskies are the consensus No. 1-ranked team in all of prep hoops after averaging 99.9 points per game to their 27 foes’ 71.5 ppg.

Five of those victories (vs. No. 2 seed Bishop Montgomery, vs. No. 6 Redondo Union, vs. No. 7 Damien (twice) and No. 11 Roosevelt have come against five of the other 15 teams in the Open bracket.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – Several squads that were given strong consideration for inclusion into the Open field received spiffy seedings when the CIF Southern Section office unveiled its other divisional brackets Sunday afternoon at its Los Alamitos office.

Long Beach Poly (1AA), Santa Monica (1A), Chino Hills Ayala (2AA), Santa Barbara (2A) and La Canada (4AA) were the top seeds in their respective divisions for first-round playoff action that will begin on Wednesday.

The 16-team Open Division bracket, selected on Friday morning and revealed on Saturday morning, will feature eight games set to tip off at 7 o’clock Friday night.

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LOS ALAMITOS, Ca. – The CIF Southern Section third Boys’ Basketball Open Division bracket was publicly unveiled by Southern Section administrators Saturday morning.

Not in the least bit surprising was that Chino Hills (27-0 and No. 1 in most national rankings), Bishop Montgomery (24-1 with its only loss to Chino Hills), Sierra Canyon (23-3, with an at-the-buzzer loss to national power Oak Hill Academy) and Mater Dei (25-3, which suffered its last loss, by 19 points, to the same Oak Hill Academy squad two days after its buzz-beater vs.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – The last week of the regular season for the CIF Southern Section and L.A. City sections is on tap with some significant matchups that could impact league championship and playoff seeds.

Among those is No. 9 Crespi at No. 22 Alemany (Mission League/Monday night).

Pairings for the 16-team Southern Section will be announced on Friday, with the rest of the Southern Section divisions announced on Sunday.

The L.A. City playoff pairings will be unveiled on Saturday.

 

Updated Southern California Top 25 teams (Southern, L.A.

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