I was just looking over Maxpreps and their rankings and I spotted SJND and all their forfeits and 1 win and all I could think of is WOW!!! Dont forget that the last NCS OPEN champ was SJND. How hard and fast did that program crash? The closest comparison I can think of is when SMU football got the death penalty back in the day to whats happened at SJND.

The administration at SJND really screwed the pooch on this one.

Who you guys got as the top seeds in both divisions?

Open
1. Campolindo
2. Winner of EBAL Tourney (DLS/Dublin/DV)
3. St. Patricks- St. Vincent
4. Runner up of EBAL Tourney (DLS/Dublin/DV)
5. Miramonte
6. Bishop O'Dowd

D1
1. Clayton Valley Charter/Moreau Catholic
2. Clayton Valley Charter/Moreau Catholic
3. Liberty
4. Granada

OR dominating Folsom on senior night.
59-45 to start 4th.

EBAL Bracket

Here we go again

ANOTHER loss tonight?

This time to San Leandro?...after getting spanked by Piedmont on Saturday by 20.

Are they dealing with covid issues? injuries? or?

does anyone know?

Simply put, nothing works.

If you do it by enrollment, Pinewood wins D5 every year. And privates that recruit -- and there are only a few -- punch way above their weight.

If you do it by recent history, the school that was good for three years thanks to a great class now is out of its league and will get pounded until an adjustment is made.

If you do it by this year's results, you wind up with brackets that favor the team that just missed going up a division and punish the team that is 16th out of 16, or eighth out of eight.

If you split the privates and publics, there aren't enough private schools to fill all the divisions, not to mention the fact that all the titles are even more watered down than before. Even if you just created three private divisions, there would still be issues as some bigger privates don't take sports seriously, and some small ones do.

In addition, the public school titles become even less impactful because no matter how good the public school, the fact that it didn't have to beat the privates in postseason can't be overcome.

So unless you have a solution, continual complaints about the CCS Open or NorCal seedings are pretty pointless. To me, the Open system is the best, though obviously far from perfect -- like the old line about democracy being a terrible way to run a country except for the fact it's better than any other way to run a country.

St Patrick's Bruins win 50-42 over Salesian! Bruins now 19-1 on the season.
Nick Meidoris of St Patricks is league MVP.

Bruins beat Vallejo something like 83 - 36 in the semi-finals of TCAL.
I'll be honest, they looked pretty impressive tonight. I'm a little leary about an Open division bid though because of their lack of size. Would prefer to see them play at the division 1 level.

Regardless, they are playing well and have had a terrific season. Championship Saturday night I would assume against Salesian. Go Bruins!

I assume it will be this weekend. When is that expected to happen and is it being streamed or just posted on the section website? Thanks.

26-0 now after a tough 72-63 win on the road against a solid Placer team. They go for history Friday night! Currently last remaining undefeated in calif. I’ve been talking them up all year and they continue to impress. Old school team that you would see 20 years ago when kids grew up playing together at early age and stayed together.

Look for a deep post season run in d2.

Marin Catholic beat Terra Linda 65-46 and San Marin beat Branson 39-38 as Lailah Carey had a team high 17 points. They will meet at 6:00 PM on Friday at Marin Catholic

62-38 final in the just-finished frosh game.

Campo should win comfortably here in all three games, but ya still gotta play ‘em…

The varsity game’s importance for the Cougars is that, with a victory they’d be 2 games in front with just one to play, clinching the DFAL title.

Rivals updated their national players rankings this week. I have listed all NorCal players ranked. I am not including players who transfer into prolific prep for 3 months

2024
Jojo Hunter 77
Chris Bunch 80
Jaylen Thompson 84
Aidan Mahaney 118
Oziyah Sellers 144

2023
Andre Stojakovich 63
Tyler Harris 91

2024
Jamari Phillips 17

O’Dowd leads 24-13 end Q1. Dragons have a big rebounding advantage.

Several big Sac-Joaquin Section league games tonight:

Christian Brothers (22-3, 10-0) at Vista del Lago (22-2, 10-0) in game 1 of 2. On the NFHS Network tonight.

St. Mary's 14-6, at Lincoln-Stockton 18-7. Note: Vanden (Div. 3) beat Lincoln-Stockton (Div. 1) at Lincoln, 51-47 last Monday.

Rodriguez-Fairfield (16-6, 8-1) at Vanden (20-3, 9-0) for the Monticello Empire league championship.

Watching online because I didn’t think I’d get in…

I probably would have gotten in if I’d tried…. Gym looks to be over half full.

Ya never know, I guess…

Not only are there bigger crowds, there is a ton more offense than Tiesday.

It’s tied at 29 late in the 2nd.

Oakland junior Money Williams had 35 points in the win as the Wildcats improved to 20-2.

Their losses this year have come to San Ramon Valley and Oakland Tech

IMO ( I could be Bias) Edison (Stockton) might have caught up to the Gridley Tournament (with all due respect).

Edison Classic is LOADED this year .

Unfortunately, they fall on the same weekend.

Edison
Central (Fresno)
Vanden
Grant
Inderkum
Gregori
Oakland Tech
Folsom

Dec 9-11th

Inviting all the basketball fans out to a great 3 days of hoops.
Media Coverage will be covered

Seven seniors will play their final regular-season home game tonight for the Cougars. Three are starters, Aidan Mahaney, Matt Radell, and Cade Bennett.

Also, Gabe Johnson, Justin Yasukochi, Justin Chan and Tyler Vineyard will play their last home game tonight…

Of course, all seven are hoping to play in a whole bunch of postseason games, mostly here in the Cougars’ Lair.

Right now, the Coug frosh are takin’ care of business , leading Las Lomas by 32 mid-4th quarter.

Lincoln won 66-62 to split the regular season series

Jay Clifton scored 21 points in the win to go over 1,000 points for his career in Calaveras' 52-47 win over Sonora.

The two programs have split their regular season games and are both 8-1 in the Mother Lode

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Non-league tilt on Senior Day at Pinewood, and Elle Ladine left a lasting impression. 36 points. 24 rebounds (plus lots of assists, steals and smiles) against a solid San Leandro squad. I think she could've scored 50 if she had wanted to.

Doc's club is as fun as ever to watch, but I suspect they're going to have a tough time with VC or Mitty in CCS.

Glenn Reeves put together a good look at the girls basketball success in the greater Peninsula Bay Area. The past few years have been especially good for the area.

DLS 15, Foothill 9 at the half.