Division V-A bracket

The No. 1 seed in Division V-A is, not surprisingly, Price, while the No. 2 seed was Heritage Christian (also shown on the official draw sheets handed out at the CIF today as "Eastside Christian, a name that is new for this year. . . we've stuck with Heritage, as have most of the media throughout this season, so that's what we'll continue to use). The bracket is another 32 team bracket and there are 5 byes in the first round.

Here's the bracketing through the final rounds. 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 for the most part in our view. But if you have complaints, talk to them.

First round games
February 16

Second Round
Feb. 18

Third Round
Feb. 22

Quarterfinals
Feb. 25

Semifinals
Feb. 29

Finals
March 4
@ LMU

Upper half of Bracket

Price

Bye

Price

W.LA Baptist

Westmark

Wilson Creek

Cal Lutheran

First Lutheran

Rolling Hills Prep

Stoneridge Prep

Orangewood Acad.

Big Pine

Bye

Christian Center Acad.

Hillcrest Chr. GH

Southwestern

Bye

Lower Half Bracket

Antelope Valley Chr.

Bye

AV Chr.

Owens Valley

Mesrobian

Santa Clarita Chr.

Shandon

Pioneer Baptist

Hesperia Christian

Maricopa

Tarbut v' Torah

West Valley Christian

Newbury Park Adv.

Trinity Lutheran

Immanuel Chr.

Heritage Chr.

Heritage Christian
(Eastside Chr.)

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.