SoCalHoops High School News
SoCalHoops High School News
One World, One Order: Division
III-AA Schools
For The Year 2000--(Jan. 3, 2000)
No, this is not some communist plot at total domination, and it's not a Revelationist reference to Armageddon. Just a reference to a small bit of reform that will hopefully make this year's Division III playoffs a little more competitive. Last year there was a lot of controversy created by the fact that Division III was, like the rest of the CIF Southern Section divisions, divided into two separate pools for purposes of playoffs in the Sectionals: III-A and III-AA. The only problem with this further "subdivision", at least in D-III, was that there were hardly enough teams to make up a decent playoff bracket (for whatever reason), and thus, this year, the two subdivisions have been eliminated and combined into a single Division III-AA. In other words, according to the Southern Section, "Playoffs for Division III will be conducted under a single division format due to the limited number of schools in this enrollment category. In Division IIIAA, the champion, runner-up and the two remaining semifinalists will automatically enter into the CIF State Basketball Playoffs."
Thus, even though there will only be a single pool of teams making up the D-III bracket, the Southern Section will still get the same number of teams (four per overall division, or 20 teams) sent to the State Southern Regional playoffs. Whew. . . and we thought for a moment that the rest of the Central Division and San Diego Division were going to have a numbers advantage. . . That was a close call. :^). We don't know of any schools in D-III that are moving up and out to D-II or D-I, but overall, this should be a much more competitive environment for the teams in this division than last year's 8 team playoff bracket.
As with the other Divisions, we'll post this list alphabetically, rather than by enrollment figures (the CIF sent us two different lists, but alphabetical is the only really useful one for our purposes). If we miss a school, or there's one missing from the list, well, blame the CIF Southern Section office not us. We don't make 'em up, we just report them Here's the list for all of Division III:
CIF Southern Section 1999-2000 Boys Basketball
Division III (750-1124)
| Division III-AA | Enrollment |
| Alemany Azusa Banning Bassett Bishop Montgomery Blair Cabrillo-Lompoc Centennial--Compton Chaminade Corona del Mar Costa Mesa Covina Crespi Don Bosco Estancia Gabrielino Ganesha Gladstone Granite Hills Harvard-Westlake La Canada La Quinta--Westminster Monrovia Morningside Nordhoff Northview Notre Dame--Sherman Oaks Pomona San Dimas San Jacinto San Marino Santa Paula Santa Ynez South El Monte South Pasadena St. Francis Western Workman Yucca Valley |
1025 964 818 942 955 877 917 897 821 777 865 1001 752 1078 819 1035 978 984 830 802 997 1084 1116 943 901 863 801 1117 985 808 867 1036 788 1000 979 886 1109 974 886 |
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