Division IV-AA boys bracket

This is a 32-team bracket with no "Wild-Card" games, and no "byes". The top seeds are No. 1 El Segundo, No. 2 Harvard-Westlake, No. 3 Rosamond, and No. 4 Chaminade. Before getting to the bracket though, a couple of things are apparent: First, the CIF did the right thing by keeping Harvard-Westlake and Chaminade away from each other, putting them in opposite ends of the bracket. Second, no, that's not a typo, Harvard-Westlake, despite being the No. 2 seed will play an away game in the first round against Village Christian. Why? Because CIF Bylaws stipulate that for purposes of constructing the brackets, a No. 2 league entry will play a No. 3 league entry and the higher league representative gets the home game in the first round. H-W finished third in their league (after a tie-breaker giving Chaminade the No. 2 league finish based on a coin flip), so the Woverines will have to get their first win in the playoffs in two years (H-W didn't qualify for playoffs last season) on the road.

We'll have more on each of the teams in these brackets later, but in the meantime, here's the bracket:

First round games Friday February 15			Second Round Tuesday February 19	Quarterfinals Friday Feb 22	Semifinals Tuesday Feb 26	Finals March 2 @ Pond
Upper half of Bracket
Maranatha	@	El Segundo
Carpinteria	@	St. Monica
Mojave	@	Loma Linda Academy
Brentwood	@	Calvary Chapel SA
Paraclete	@	La Salle
Valley Christian Cer.	@	Twentynine Palms
St. Bonaventure	@	St. Joseph SM
Providence	@	Chaminade
Lower half of Bracket
Big Bear	@	Rosamond
Milken	@	Murphy
St. Paul	@	Orange Lutheran
Fillmore	@	Crossroads
Crespi	@	Oak Park
Kern Valley	@	Desert Christian L.
Notre Dame Riverside	@	Duarte
Harvard-Westlake	@	Village Christian

All games with the exception of 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. the 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.