2025-26 Week 8A: Final Regular-Season Poll Favors Francis Parker
“Maffei Madness”, i.e., the Union-Tribune San Diego Section poll, will be on hiatus until conclusion of the playoffs. First-place votes in parenthesis. Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. Previous ranking in bold italics, if changed. Cal-Hi Sports rankings are by Mark Tennis, the newsletter’s publisher, with contribution from statewide correspondents. Max Preps essentially relies on individual school […]
Read More2025-26 Girls Basketball Week 8: Playoff Pairings and Records
FIRST ROUND TUESDAY, FEB. 17. DIVISION I 16 Poway (4-22), @1 Imperial (20-6). 15 Calexico Vincent Memorial (3-14), @2 Rancho Bernardo (21-7). 9 Otay Ranch (15-11), @8 Scripps Ranch (13-15). 13 Morse (13-15), @4 Torrey Pines (14-14). 10 San Marcos (10-16), @7 Montgomery (14-13). 12 Oceanside (14-9), @The Bishop’s (12-12). 14 Rancho Buena Vista (10-14), […]
Read More2025-26 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
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 […]
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