SoCalHoops State Tournament News

D-IV CIF State Championship
Playoff Brackets--(Mar. 11, 2003)

Some people have been telling us that they've had problems finding the brackets (or in opening them up with Adobe Acrobat Reader) at the State CIF website.   In particular, all of the state tournament brackets (both boys and girls) can be found at a single link at the state website.  We have not had that same problem, but for those experiencing any technical difficulties, we've got the info set out below in two different ways: 1.  In the form of a .jpg graphic, and 2. in the form of familiar web-based html content (utilzing our own graphic style of setting out the bracets....Either way, no one should be complaining about not knowing where and when the games are and who is playing whom.   And finally, just so there is no mistake about what's happening tonight in the SoCal Regionals, here's who's playing (* indicates the home team, and all games are at host school sites in the first round unless otherwise indicated:

2003 CIF State Basketball Championship Tournament
SoCal Regionals:  March 11, 2003 Games:
First Round Games--Division IV

Upper half of bracket:
7:30 p.m.     Crossroads @ San Diego Horizon
7:30 p.m.     San Joaquin Memorial @ Verbum Dei

Lower half of bracket:
7:30 p.m.    Lincoln Prep  @ Oaks Christian
7:00 p.m.    Campbell Hall vs. Garces Memorial (@ Centennial Garden, Bakersfield)

Here's the bracket in graphic form (this is the same bracket you'd see if you used Adobe Acrobat)

And for those of you who prefer the bracket in our usual format (which of course also will make it easier for us to update after tonight's gamesm here is the combined SoCal-NorCal bracket:

In the South, the No. 1 seed is Horizon (San Diego);   Garces Memorial of Bakersfield (Central) is  No. 2;  Lincoln Prep of San Diego is No. 3 and Verbum Dei of CIF-SS is No. 4.  Travel priorities basically determine which teams will have to travel during first and successive rounds, and in this case, the seed order is only slightly different than the travel priority, meaning that if Oaks Christian were to beat Lincoln for example and Campbell Hall by some miracle managed to defeat Garces, Oaks Christian would get to again host the game.    It also means that since Lincoln, despite being a "seed" has a lower travel priority status and thus Oaks Christian is hosting the game tonight.  Anyway, here's the seeding and travel priorities: 

Again, as most people know, we don't really cover the NorCal Regionals, at least not in any detail, but in case you're interested in looking at that half of the bracket, here it is in jpg format:

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