southern section division V AA & V A placements for 2000-2001

Contrary to popular opinion, the largest Division in CIF Southern Section is not Division I. It's still Division V, the division with the smallest enrollment schools. D-I combined (I-AA and I-A) has 142 teams (I-AAA and I-AA both have 47 teams, and I-A has 48). In contrast, Division V combined has 159 teams, which is up 5 teams overall from last year (and that does not include teams like Serra who played up in D-IV, but which was included in the D-V count last season).

In fact, with V-AA having 77 teams (unchanged from last year) and V-A with 82 teams (accounting for the increase by 5 from 1999-2000), that makes Division V larger than the combined numbers in both Divisions III and IV, and almost double the size of Division II .

And keep in mind that size-wise, the Southern Section's Division V is the single largest competition pool of any CIF grouping in the State of California. It's larger than the entire LA City Section (63 teams) by more than a factor of two, and it's also larger than the entire San Diego Section (89 teams), the entire Central Section (85 teams), and it's larger than any of the NorCal CIF sections (and we mean the entire sections, including all divisions, e.g., I, II, III, IV and V combined in those sections). How much bigger? The entire North Coast Section has 145 teams, Sac-Joaquin's CIF Section has 130 teams, Northern Section CIF has just 69 teams, and Central Coast CIF Section has 109 teams. Southern Seciton's D-V absolutely dwarfs the San Franciso Section, which has just 12 teams, and it's more than 25 times as large as the Oakland Section, which, at just 6 teams is really only a league--for purely historical purposes it continues to exist as a "Section". . . but that's another story).

Of course, when you get to these lower enrollment division teams and schools, not all of them are what you might call "competitive," but there are quite a few really solid teams in this division, and each year, from the top teams, several guys go on to play college ball, including last season Josiah Johnson from Montclair Prep who is now at UCLA (he's not playing due to injury, but they sure could have used his shooting yesterday at the Wooden Classic, where the Bruins shot a dismal 29%. . . . but that's a different story). This year, a number of teams are capable of making some noise in V-AA, whereas in V-A it will only be a couple that will actually be good enough to consistently challenge. In V-AA there are a handful of teams (in alphabetical order) who we think are the favorite for the playoffs, including teams from last season's Top 10 SCIBCA teams like Buckley (No. 6), Calvary Chapel Downey (No. 3), Chadwick (, Montclair Prep, Pacific Hills, Ribet, St. Anthony (last year's defending Section champions) Serra, Verbum Dei, and a few others. In V-A, it's really going to once again be a two team race between Price and . . . .well, maybe Stoneridge Prep. . . and we're not sure who else.

Last season when we presented the Division V team placements for 1999-2001 we noted "One other interesting facet of the sheer size of Division V . . . has led to some movement . . . among coaches to have 3 subdivisions in D-V instead of just 2, (i.e., V-AAA, V-AA and V-A) in order to (a) give more teams an opportunity to qualify for the playoffs, and (b) for the CIF and the schools to make additional playoff gate money, and it's hard to argue against either of these positions, because it will expand the potential playoff pool and make more people happy. . . . "

The CIF decided to adopt this formula for Division I, and while there wasn't sufficient momentum to see it adopted in D-V this year, we're still willing to bet that it will happen next season. As we said last year, " The same push for additional playoff divisions is also being made in Division I as well. . . In fact, we're willing to predict that by next year, you'll see a three division type of format eventually worked out. . . "

CIF Southern Section
2000-2001 Boys Basketball
Division V (300 and Below)
as of November 29, 2000

Division V-AA	Enrollment	Division V-A	Enrollment
Academy of Academic Excellence AGBU Aquinas Arrowhead Christian Academy Avalon Bell-Jeff Bethel Christian--Riverside Bishop Diego Bloomington Christian Boron Boys' Republic Brethren Christian Buckley CSDR Calvary Chapel Downey Calvary Chapel Murietta Campbell Hall Capistrano Valley Christian Cate Chadwick Desert Dunn Fairmont Faith Baptist Flintridge Prep Glendale Adventist Grace Brethren Hamilton Hillcrest Christian (Gr. Hills) Holy Martyrs Kilpatrick La Sierra Academy Laguna Blanca Le Lycee Linfield Lone Pine Los Pinos Lucerne Valley Lutheran--La Verne Lutheran--Los Angeles Mammoth Montclair Prep New Roads Oakwood Ontario Christian Oxford Oxford Academy* (grade 10 only) Pacific Hills Pilibos Poly--Pasadena Ribet Academy Riverside Christian Rolling Hills Prep San Gabriel Academy Santa Clara Santa Clarita Christian Serra Shalhevet Sherman Indian South Bay Lutheran St. Anthony St. Genevieve St. Margaret's St. Michael's Prep Thacher Twin Pines Upland Christian Valley Torah Verbum Dei Viewpoint Villanova Prep Webb Western Christian Whitewater Windward Woodcrest Christian Yeshiva	126 180 224 243 153 256 90 255 142 158 161 224 195 188 249 254 253 202 209 216 271 126 208 141 289 183 117 195 104 137 128 145 95 218 128 112 250 220 104 119 250 235 101 223 272 124 180 121 128 260 137 115 94 186 182 92 243 240 228 107 248 277 232 100 183 100 91 175 282 176 185 280 288 150 199 231 252	Acaciawood Prep Ambassador Christian Antelope Valley Christian Apple Valley Christian Arshag Dickranian Baker Valley Baptist Christian--Hemet Bethel Christian--Lancaster Big Pine Bridges Academy Cal Lutheran Calvary Baptist Calvary Chapel-- Moreno Valley Calvary Chapel--Redlands CEDU Christian Center Academy Coastal Christian Cornerstone Christian--Camarillo Cornerstone Christian Coutin Cuyama Valley Death Valley Academy Delphi Academy Desert Chapel Desert Christian--Bermuda Dunes Eastside Christian First Lutheran Happy Valley Hesperia Christian Highland Hall Hillcrest Christian--Thousand Oaks Immanuel Christian Joshua Springs Lake Arrowhead Christian Liberty Christian Light and Life Christian Lighthouse Maricopa Masada Mesa Grande Mesrobian Midland Netan Eli Newbury Park Adventist Noli Indian Schoool North County Christian Oak Grove Oaks Christian * (grade 10 only) Ojai Valley Orangewoood Academy Owens Valley Pacific Christian Palm Valley Pilgrim Pioneer Bapptist Price Renaissance Academy Rio Hondo Prep Saddleback Valley Christian Sage Hill* (grade 10 only) San Fernando Academy Shandon Skyward Christian South Bay Southlands Christian Southwestern Academy Stoneridge Prep Summit View Tarbut V' Torah Trinity Lutheran Trona Valley Christian --Santa Maria Ventura County Christian Victor Valley Christian Waverly Weaver, Jack West Los Angeles Baptist West Valley Christian Westmark Westview Wilson Creek Zinsmeyer Academy	40 64 53 82 68 32 64 50 54 42 81 27 39 62 48 60 27 60 43 57 66 16 46 22 88 88 81 73 82 62 56 42 65 31 65 24 26 82 78 80 58 57 24 75 41 66 29 59 81 52 28 41 45 74 36 42 26 53 41 75 41 66 26 24 67 77 39 15 78 51 78 82 72 84 27 62 52 48 62 52 20 33