Girls Division II-A bracket

Division II-A is a 32 team bracket. No wild cards, and unbelievably, only two at large entries in the bracket (Elsinore and Dos Pueblos). As with the other brackets, the top four teams (using the SCIBCA Polls) were the "seeded" teams, and they are at the extreme ends of both halves of the brackets. The rest of the teams were placed such that first place league finishers (who also mostly happened to be ranked teams) got first round byes, where available. Thereafter, the teams were placed using league finishes, geographical considerations were applied and so on. While we can't say that the bracketing is perfect, the committee(which this year consisted of five CIF commissioners--(Ray Plutko, a former CIF Southern Section Commissioner, Dean Crowley, also a former CIF-SS Commissioner, Jim Staunton, current CIF-SS Commissioner, Hal Harkness, the former LA CIF Section Commissioner, and Paul Castillo, the new Assistant Commissioner of Basketball for the Southern Section) did a pretty fair and equitable job in our view. But if you have complaints, talk to them.

All first round games in this division are on February 17, while the Second Round will be February 19.

First round games February 17			Second Round Feb. 19	Quarterfinals Feb. 23 Alternate site	Semifinals Feb. 26 Alternate Site	Finals Mar. 3 or 4 The Pyramid
Upper Half of Bracket
Muir	@	Bye	Muir
Barstow	@	St. Lucy's	Muir
Mayfair	@	La Puente
Elsinore	@	Pacifica
Artesia	@	Bye	Artesia
Culver City	@	South Hills	Artesia
Burroughs Ridgecrest	@	Palm Desert	Los Altos
Los Altos	@	Bye	Los Altos
Lower Half of Bracket
Newbury Park	@	Bye	Newbury Park
Bonita	@	Burroughs Burbank	Newbury Park
Antelope Valley	@	Bye	Antelope Valley
Dos Pueblos	@	San Luis Obispo	Antelope Valley
Magnolia	@	Laguna Hills
Charter Oak	@	La Habra
Brawley	@	Bye	Brawley
Central	@	Bishop Amat	Brawley

Essentially, through the first rounds, teams receiving a bye in the first round shall be the host team in the next round. All games with the excepiton fo the final round will start at 7:30 p.m. unless another time is mutually agreed upon and clearance is received from the CIF-SS Office. Public coin flips will be held in the lobby of the CIF-SS Office at 9:00 a.m. ithe day following each playoff game [these coin flips will determine subsquent sites after the first round, i.e., which school will be the host]. Coin flips will be available after 9:30 a.m. and we'll try to keep everyone posted with them here.