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LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA – OK.

The 68-team NCAA Tournament bracket has been unveiled.

My region-by-region, game-by-game looks will be posted later.

For now, some initial thoughts upon perusing the four regional brackets:

*UNLIKE some of the talking heads/expert-types, I thought Iona was reasonably deserving of one of the 37 at-large bids.

And I think the thing that turned the tide in the NCAA Committee’s meeting room in Indianapolis was the Gaels’ BracketBuster victory over a another very good “non-BCS” team in Nevada, which dominated the WAC’s regular season before being stunned by Louisiana Tech in the conference tournament semifinals.

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State Southern Regionals/Division IV

Wednesday’s first-round matchups (all 7 p.m. unless noted)

  Upper bracket: No. 1 Gardena Serra (29-2)/bye; No. 9 San Diego Francis Parker (17-11) at No. 8 Inglewood Animo South L.A. (20-7); No. 12 Tollhouse Sierra (25-5) at No. 5 L.A. Pacific Hills (28-4); No. 13 Kingsburg (17-11) at No. 4 Encino Crespi (23-7).

Lower bracket: No. 14 Chowchilla (22-7) at No. 3 L.A. Price (22-8); No. 11 Montebello Cantwell Sacred Heart (25-6) at No. 6 La Jolla Country Day (20-9); No. 10 N.

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State Southern Regionals/Division II

Wednesday’s first-round matchups (all 7 p.m. unless noted)

  Upper bracket: No. 1 Carlsbad La Costa Canyon (31-2)/bye; No. 9 Ontario Colony (22-9) at No. 8 Woodland Hills El Camino (18-7); No. 12 L.A. Garfield (27-7) at No. 5 Inglewood (21-10); No. 13 Thousand Oaks (21-9) at No. 4 Elsinore (27-4).

  Lower bracket: No. 14 Fullerton Sunny Hills (25-7) at No. 3 San Diego Lincoln (21-9); No. 11 Tulare Union (28-5) at No. 6 Santa Maria Righetti (25-5); No. 10 Simi Valley Royal (24-7) at No.

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State Southern Regionals/Division I

Wednesday’s first-round matchups (all 7 p.m. unless noted)

Upper bracket: No. 16 La Crescenta Crescenta Valley (26-7) at No. 1 Santa Ana Mater Dei (29-2), 7:30; No. 9 Mission Viejo (27-4) at No. 8 San Diego Torrey Pines (22-10); No. 12 Vista (25-8) at No. 5 Etiwanda (30-2); No. 13 L.A. Crenshaw (24-5) at No. 4 L.A. Loyola (25-4).

Lower bracket: No. 14 Clovis West (22-6) at No. 3 Woodland Hills Taft (29-3); No. 11 L.A. Westchester (22-7) at No. 6 Fresno Bullard (28-3); No.

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ANAHEIM, CA – Orange Lutheran joined fellow Trinity League member as a CIF Southern Section champion Saturday night in the Anaheim Convention Center Arena.

The Lancers finally pulled away from another determined Orange County-based foe, Mission Viejo, 64-58, to bag the IA crown.

University of Arizona-bound guard Gabe York paced the winners with 28 fairly spectacular points.

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