Division I-AA bracket

This is a very large bracket, a 64 team bracket involving 51 teams, so there will be some first round byes. Basically, 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 are on February 16, which the exception of the El Rancho v. Peninsula first round which will be played Tuesday, February 15, and the second round involving Rancho Cucamonga and the winner of that first round game, which will be played Thursday, Feb. 17 instead of on Friday like the rest of the second round games.

First round games
February 16

Second Round
February 18

Third Round
Feb 22

Quaterfinals
Feb. 25
Alternate Site

Semifinals
Feb. 29
Alternate
Site

Finals
March 4
@ The Pond

Upper half of Bracket

First-Quarter Bracket

Poly

Bye

LB Poly

Century

Saddleback

Alhambra

Bye

Alhambra

Chino

Fontana

Oxnard

Bye

Oxnard

Canyon Springs

Warren

Peninsula

El Rancho (Tuesday Feb. 15)

Rancho Cucamonga
Thurs. Feb. 17

Rancho Cucamonga

Bye

Second-Quarter Bracket

Rialto

Bye

Rialto

Lakewood

Ontario

Downey

Santa Ana

Valley View

Bye

Arroyo Grande

Bye

Arroyo Grande

Murrieta Valley

Diamond Bar

AB Miller

Esperanza

El Toro

Bye

Lower Half of Bracket

Third-Quarter bracket

Ayala

Bye

Ayala

Highland

San Gabriel

Santa Maria

Crescenta Valley

Leuzinger

Bye

Etiwanda

Bye

Etiwanda

Yucaipa

Temecula Valley

Aliso Niguel

San Clemente

Camarillo

Glendora

Fourth-Quarter Bracket

Santa Ana Valley

LB Jordan

Santa Monica

Righetti

Glendale

Channel Islands

Los Alamitos

Bye

Millikan

Upland

Fountain Valley

Capistrano Valley

Chaffey

San Gorgonio

Eisenhower

Bye

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.