SoCalHoops State Tournament News

Boys' California State Championship
Playoff Brackets--(Mar. 3, 2002)

The State CIF website has most of the same information that you'll find here, but we've just laid it out a bit differently, i.e., as one big bracket so that both the North and the South are headed to the same spot, i.e., the finals.  If you have questions about how the state tournament works, they have a pretty decent "State Championship FAQ" which can answer, in a non-technical way, most any question you might have.

Division I

Here's the bracket:  Note:  In the North, there are two "play-in" or "out of bracket" games which will be played on Tuesday, March 5. Game 1 is Vallejo @ Pleasant Valley. Game 2 is Serra @ Lincoln (SF). Both games are @ 7:30 p.m.

In the South, Westchester is No. 1 and will host Thousand Oaks; Fairfax is the No. 2 seed but with a lower travel priority will travel to Carlsbad. The No. 3 seed is Long Beach Poly, which hosts the Loyola Cubs, and that should be an incredible game.  Finally, Eisenhower was not seeded and they also had only a No. 6 travel priority, and they will go to No. 4 Clovis West, a place where no one not from Clovis wants to play, especially in the playoffs.  Eagles v. Eagles....hmmm. 

In the South, the No. 1 seed is Westchester; Fairfax is No. 2, Long Beach Poly is No. 3, and Clovis West is No. 4.  Basically all the seeds are explained below in the two charts also showing the travel priorities.

In the second round, to determine who gets to be the home team and who has to travel, the CIF uses considerations called "travel priorities" which are combined with the seedings.

Basically, the team with the higher travel priority, gets to stay home, while the teams with the lower travel priority can expect to be on the road if they play a higher priority team in the second round.  Here are the seedings and travel priorities for the SoCal entrants:

In the NorCal regionals, the following are the travel and seedings:

Division II

Here's the Division II State Bracket, both north and south halves:

There is one Monday night (March 5) "out-bracket" game in the North:  Game 1--Oak Ridge v. Chico @ El Dorado Hills at 7:30 p.m.   The winner gets No. 1 seed St. Francis on Tuesday.

Mater Dei is the No. 1 seed and will host Escondido in the first round. Pasadena was the No. 4 seed, but has a lower travel priority than Stockdale, so the Bulldogs travel in the first round.  Riverside King is No. 3, but with a lower travel number, than Helix will go to Helix.  Finally, Redondo Union as the No. 2 seed gets the homecourt advantage and will host Fresno Hoover on Wednesday, March 6.   Here's the entire bracket:

In the SoCal Regionals, the seeding and travel priorities are as follows:

In the NorCal Regionals, the seeding and travel priorities are as follows:

Division III

Division III has Bishop Montgomery earning the No. 1 seed, while Compton Centennial is seeded No. 2, but the latter team will have to travel to Bakersfield East. Bishop Amat is seeded third, and will host Washington Union.  Palm Desert is the No. 4 seed, but got a lower travel priority so they will travel south to St. Augustine in San Diego.  Here's the bracket:

Southern Regional Travel priorities and seedings:

NorCal regional travel priority and seeding is as follows:

Division IV

The SoCal regional has Horizon as the No. 1 seed, and they will host El Segundo on Wednesday.  No. 2 seed Garces Memorial hosts Lincoln Academy, while No. 3 Verbum Dei hosts San Joaquin Memorial.  Finally, No. 4 Harvard-Westlake hosts Gardena Serra.

In the SoCal Regionals, here's the seeding and travel info:

In the NorCal regionals, here's the seeding and travel priority information

Division V

No. 1 in Division V is Price, which will host Santa Fe Christian from the San Diego Section.  No. 2 Rolling Hills Prep hosts Mission Prep from San Luis Obispo (Central Section), while No. 3 Immanual hosts Stoneridge Prep. Finally, No. 4 Ribet will travel (because they have a lower travel priority than their opponent), to La Jolla Country Day.

Seeding and travel priorities for the SoCal teams are as follows:

In the NorCal Regionals, the seeding and travel will be as follows:

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