2025-26 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
Meetings to determine playoff pairings, traditionally an arduous, sometimes day-long exercise often 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 […]
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. […]
Read More2025-26 Basketball Week 4: Santa Fe Christian Holds No. 1
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. TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAXPREPS.COM CAL-HI […]
Read More2025-26 Basketball Week 3: Ramona Sharpshooter Lights Up Scoreboard
Tayden Bryant of Ramona set a school record of 51 points in a 77-43, Valley League victory over San Pasqual last week. Fifty points was once an extremely rare accomplishment. There have been many games of 50 points or more by an individual player since St. Augustine’s Tom Shaules scored 60 in the 1957-58 season […]
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