He just had the kind of game that gets backups employed for a long time. He’s had a long road to get here but he’s showing out so far. Congrats to that young man.

San Ramon beats DLS for league championship but DLS gets 2 seed and a bye.

What time will NCS have the seeds out?

Taking my shot at the 6.

1. SRV
2. CN
3. CLET
4. BOD
5. Acalanes
6. Piedmont

Marin Catholic slips in again behind the Open teams in D3 and is in the cat bird seat again for yet another watered down section title.

Meanwhile D2 is bleh....🤮

Sac-Joaquin Section:

Divison I
Division II
Division III
Division IV
Division V
Division VI

North Coast Section

Open
Division I
Division II
Division III
Division IV
Division V
Division VI

Central Coast Section

Open Division
Division I
Division II
Division III
Division IV
Division V

Northern Section

Is there a link for the NCS selection show?

The CIF Sac-Joaquin Section basketball selection show will take place on 2/10/24 at 1:30 pm on the NFHS Network. The basketball playoffs are coming! Don't miss the excitement!

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Lancers almost pulled the upset on their senior night. The Irish are winning, but not convincingly. They needed a furious comeback to beat SI by four, and only beat Valley by 12. They'll get tested by Riordan on Tuesday.

Does the winner get the number one
Seed in the NCS?
Will Clet have the NFHS cameras up and
Running?

De La Salle 1-0
Dublin 1-0
San Ramon Valley 1-0
California 1-0
Granada 1-0
Monte Vista 0-1
Dougherty Valley 0-1
Livermore 0-1
Amador Valley 0-1
Foothill 0-1

January 9 Scores:

De La Salle beat Monte Vista 65-54
California beat Amador Valley 51-47
Dublin beat Livermore 75-42
San Ramon Valley beat Dougherty Valley 64-61
Granada beat Foothill 61-57

January 12 Schedule:

California at San Ramon Valley
Dublin at Monte Vista
Granada at Dougherty Valley
Amador Valley at De La Salle
Foothill at Livermore

Big matchup tnite at Jesuit as they take on 1st place Sheldon for a potential share of champ of the delta league. Jesuit lost 67-61 to sheldon a few weeks ago and is riding a 7 game winning streak. Sheldon in 10-0 in league and riding a 10 game streak. Should be another great matchup. Jesuit needs a big game from Kevin Haught and consistent play from Cole Epperson. When both play well they are tough to beat. I don't know if Ahjani Lewis played in their 1st game but he's a nice contributor as well. I will take the home team mauraders 64-62.

IMG goes to Montverde and takes um down. On NFHS… great game

Branham 19-2 (8-1) hosts Evergreen Valley 18-5 (9-0) at 7 pm. A spot in CCS open and its automatic ticket to NorCals likely hangs in the balance.

Hollister 18-4 (12-0) visits Alisal 20-2 (11-1) at 7 pm. Don't think either team will be in Open regardless of the outcome, but the winner will get the better seed in CCS D1 and an easier path to advance to states.

So despite splitting two games, Piedmont is the designated league champ. That means they get a guaranteed first-round home game, but does it mean Piedmont should be seeded ahead of O'Dowd?

The NCS committee will make that call, and the default would be to go with the league designation.

But, look at MaxPreps:

Piedmont: 16-5 record, 22.19 rating, 13.7 strength of schedule
BOD: 15-5 record, 29.01 rating, 21.5 SOS (toughest in the section)

Both will be in the Open. One is likely to be the third or fourth seed, the other fifth or sixth.

Another issue: If they are seeded 3 and 6, or 4 or 5, they would play in the first round. Would NCS do that, or separate them to avoid a rematch?

There are other issues for the Open, of course, but this will be a test of whether the committee thinks it through or just takes the easy way out.

Naturally, I was the first spectator in the gym…

Anyway…. Campo is 21-6 after taking down College Park (Pahk if it’s Bahstin) by a 51-45 count in its most recent game.

CVC is 20-7 after blasting Acalanes 57-31 on the same night to set this meeting up.

When the Cougs and the Uglies faced off back in January, the Uglies came from far back to nip the Cougs by a 52-46 score. I think the 4th quarter score was 23-10.

Of course, I’m hoping we can reverse the result this time….

Scores?

Coming up in about a week or so, we will see where everyone gets seeded. Here are my picks for the NCS Open division:

1) Salesian (TCAL-R) - Bye

2) De La Salle (EBAL) - Bye

3) Branson (MCL) vs. 6) San Ramon Valley (EBAL)
Technically SRV should be the 5 seed, but they usually like to separate teams from their own conference. This would be a really good matchup between two well coached teams.

4) Granada (EBAL) vs. 5) University (BCL-W)
Granada is really strong and would give University a good game. Right now the bottom teams considered have bad enough losses to where I can’t see them passing University.

Teams considered: Montgomery, Cardinal Newman, Bishop O’Dowd


Not sure how it would work with the matchups after the 1st round

Campolindo "the best run high school basketball program in all of the East Bay Area" heads to Clayton Valley Charter "back to back North Coast division 1 champions"

The amount of focused energy these staffs place into their craft is not matched by many

Who will win? Clayton ... This is a great DAL showdown!

Wanted to start something similar to what we have going on the WCAL. Let me know if you have any other leagues that should be spotlighted

Whitney 2-0 (Beat Oak Ridge, Granite Bay)
Rocklin 2-0 (Beat Del Oro, Oak Ridge)
Del Oro 1-1 (Beat Folsom, Lost to Rocklin)
Folsom 1-1 (Beat Granite Bay, Lost to Del Oro)
Granite Bay 0-2 (Lost to Whitney and Folsom)
Oak Ridge 0-2 (Lost to Whitney and Rocklin)

Friday's Schedule:

Rocklin at Folsom
Granite Bay at Oak Ridge
Del Oro at Whitney