The Cruz says no way

[colhenrylives]

The Cardinal argued, and succeeded in being kept out of the CCS Open Division today. VC took their place. Santa Cruz is now the top seed in D3. Can't say we blame the coastal unit.

 

[ayalar09]

I think when teams do that its pathetic. They won their league, and instead of challenging themselves in the Open, they request to play D3. Burlingame and Aptos will give Santa Cruz problems in D3 anyways.

 

[Streak One]

I can see both sides of it. For a school like Santa Cruz, a section banner is big and probably more achieveable that something they can do in NorCals. That said, if you have a section bracket that is supposed to have the best eight teams, it doesn't seem right that teams can choose to be in there or not.

This is why I would like to see only certain brackets can send teams to NorCals. That way, teams have to make a choice instead of having it both ways

 

[TC112]

Not sure of CCS rules but if Open teams get an automatic Norcal bid. That's a risky choice.

 

[ArmchairGOAT]

Not sure of CCS rules but if Open teams get an automatic Norcal bid. That's a risky choice.

All CCS Open teams get an automatic NorCal bid. Historically, the CCS Open winner and at times the runner up are placed in the NorCal Open and the remaining teams are seeded according to overall record/SOS by the CIF. This season should have been only 6 CCS Open teams that automatically qualified for NorCal.

 

[TurtleLoveCA]

It's a shame the Santa Cruz coach didn't have the basketballs to go tell the King City players that his cowardice meant King City was eliminated from Division 3. COWARD, COWARD, COWARD.