southern section division II AA & IIA placements for 2000-2001

The season is just getting started, with most teams having played only a few preseason tournament or non-league games, but this year, because of the creation of a new third subdivision within the Southern Section in Division I, the powers that be (TPTB) within the CIF Southern Seciton have decided to actually check enrollments right now (as of November 29) and issue the playoff division lists. While it won't make a real difference until February 14, when the first playoff games begin, it will be important for purposes of tracking each team through the SCIBCA polls which will be issued here and at the Southern Section's official website.

There's no "moving up" this year. Each team in the Southern Section has to be in it's own "proper" enrollment division. Thus, the teams listed below are those which will be the ones actually eligible to compete in the playoffs in their own respective divisions. Still no word yet on whether the CIF will go back to the traditional "top half of league" requirements for entry into the playoffs, or will stick with the very successful and (we think, and yes this is the "opinion" part) better 10-win rule (which really is tanatamount to a .500 season considering that the CIF only allows 20 official games during a season (the way around that 20-game limit is that it doesn't count a tournament as more than 2 games, so teams which participate, for example in 3 tournaments and play 4 games in each, only get charged for 6 games, and yet they've played 12. . . ). There was not much change in division placement for division II--a couple of teams went from A to AA, and vice versa. A couple of AA teams moved to I-A, but overall the movement was slight. Here are the new division assignments for Division I:

Division II-AA is two teams larger than it was last year, while II-A is larger by five teams more than last year. Most of the movement has been from teams movin down in enrollment rather than up, at least overall.

CIF Southern Section 2000-2001 Boys Basketball
Division II (1125-1499) as of November 29, 2000

Division II-AA	Enrollment	Division II-A	Enrollment
Agoura Bellflower Brea Olinda Burbank Burroughs (Burbank) Cathedral City Chaparral Cypress Dominguez El Modena El Monte Elsinore Gahr Garden Grove Garey Hemet Inglewood Kennedy La Quinta--La Quinta La Serna Laguna Hills Los Amigos Moorpark Norco Norte Vista North Torrance Paloma Valley Pasadena Paso Robles Ramona Rim of the World San Bernardino San Marcos Santa Barbara Santa Margarita Santiago--Garden Grove Savanna Sonora South Torrance Torrance Tustin Valencia--Placentia Victor Valley West Torrance Westlake Whittier	1414 1474 1361 1490 1363 1467 1402 1474 1472 1412 1376 1435 1423 1419 1479 1459 1487 1494 1478 1478 1423 1466 1447 1484 1485 1475 1374 1395 1449 1498 1375 1462 1454 1499 1367 1452 1427 1416 1475 1363 1416 1467 1405 1418 1495 1364	Apple Valley Artesia Atascadero Barstow Bishop Amat Bloomington Bolsa Grande Bonita Buena Park Cabrillo--Long Beach Calabasas Charter Oak Compton Culver City Diamond Ranch Don Bosco Dos Pueblos Fullerton Glenn Granite Hills Hesperia Kaiser (10-11 only) La Habra La Puente La Quinta--Westminster Lompoc Los Altos Magnolia Mayfair Monrovia Mountain View Muir Newbury Park Norwalk Ocean View Pacifica Palm Desert Pioneer Rancho Alamitos Redondo Rosemead San Luis Obispo Serrano Servite Sierra Vista South Hills Temple City Western Wilson--Hacienda Heights	1276 1330 1270 1153 1197 1272 1205 1213 1253 1172 1267 1322 1255 1207 1179 1138 1352 1255 1177 1247 1233 1194 1302 1231 1124 1190 1352 1224 1232 1207 1264 1125 1239 1336 1140 1252 1274 1150 1211 1323 1313 1256 1322 1140 1296 1170 1265 1168 1296