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2025-26 Basketball Week 7: Hats Off! Girls Regular Season League Champions
LEAGUE TEAM W-L Pct. OVERALL Pct. Avg. for Avg. vs. Avocado Oceanside 8-2 .800 14-9 .609 45 41 Vista 8-2 .800 15-11 .577 52.3 47 Central Point Loma 7-1 .875 15-10 .600 42 35.2 City Canyon Hills 8-2 .800 23-4 .852 44.9 28.2 Our Lady of Peace 8-2 .800 22-6 .786 52.7 35.6 […]
Read More2025-26 Basketball Week 7, Hats Off! Boys’ Regular Season League Champions
There were twenty outright league champions and four league co-champions, most of whose seasons will continue with the first round of San Diego Section playoffs beginning Tuesday. Pairings and division alignments are expected today. Twelve teams were unbeaten in loop play, Victory Christian posted the overall highest won-loss percentage (.857), and San Marcos, averaging 70.4 […]
Read More2025-26 Basketball Week 6: Who’s the Best? Or, is There a Best?
What does it say when the highest ranked San Diego Section basketball teams are Max Preps‘ state ranked 29th and Cal-Hi Sports’ 22nd? And that No. 30 is Francis Parker, which has lost nine games but leads The San Diego Union-Tribune poll with 11 of 18 first-place votes? Basketball here is down this season, compared […]
Read More1995-96 Basketball: Postseason Meeting is Peevish Parley
Playoff pairings, traditionally an arduous, sometimes day-long exercise punctuated by shouting and finger-pointing participants, centered around the Scripps Ranch boys team, which had forfeited 15 games for using an ineligible player, among several transfers to the relatively new, third-year school. Wrote Steve Brand of The San Diego Union-Tribune: “Sentiments…ranged from not allowing Scripps to play […]
Read More2025 Basketball Week 5: Maffei Madness Top 4 Unchanged
The so-called “Maffei Madness” San Diego Section poll, conducted by the very sane John Maffei of the Union-Tribune: First-place votes in parenthesis. Previous ranking in italics. Cal-Hi Sports rankings are by Mark Tennis, the newsletter’s publisher, with contribution from statewide correspondents. Max Preps essentially relies on individual school representatives. *Includes 2 forfeits. TEAM RECORD POINTS […]
Read More1940-41 Basketball, Looking Back: Douglas, Wilson Make Coaching Debuts
Originally posted Nov. 18, 2017. Two young coaches destined to become legendary in San Diego basketball lore arrived as varsity mentors at the city’s two prep powerhouses. Rickey Wilson, a former San Diego High player, succeeded Lawrence Carr at Hoover and Merrill Douglas, a transplanted Montanan, took over for Bill Schutte at San Diego High. […]
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