It is that this time of yr again.
The local highschool basketball teams from throughout Bay Area learned their sowing and divisional clips for the state playoffs on Sunday and can start probably the most expected high -basketball tournament after the season from this week.
The ultimate goal: to play on March 14th to fifteenth within the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento for a state championship.
The brackets usually are not at all times perfect and a few teams will do significantly better than others.
The CIF uses a competitive equity model for sowing, which divides teams from the perfect to worst into separate departments, whereby the open brackets are where the strongest teams within the state are placed. From there, the following 16 teams will probably be installed in Division I and after Division V.
The top seed in every division is preserved within the playoffs home games, while number 16 has to take to the streets for 4 games to make it into the Golden 1 center.
Archbishop Riordan (Open), the King's Academy (Division III) and Priory (Division IV) were awarded top seeds after winning their respective CCS titles. California received number 16 in Division I, though it was an NCS Open Division Team.
On the side of the ladies, the one schools who received a top norcal seed from the reporting area of the Bay Area News Group, Archbishop Mitty within the open and small summit Shasta within the Division V. The Daly City School will organize the Skyline No. 16 in its first matchup.
There was plenty of talk during all the season as as to whether the central section and the National Powerhouse St. Joseph-Santa Maria could be accommodated within the Norcal Boys Open Division. Riordan, de La Salle and Salesiane don't must worry that St. Joseph Star and California's leading top scorer Tounds Yessoufou, since the knights received number 2 within the Socal Open.
While the publication of the Playoff Brackets can never make someone comfortable, CIF Associate Executive Director Brian Seymour spoke to the Bay Area News Group on Sunday evening to make among the decisions that CIF made during this process.
Here are the highlights:
Nathan Canilao: CIF went with five young Norcal Open teams. Many thought that St. Joseph-Santa Maria had the prospect to be a Norcal team since they were within the north two years ago. What was the explanation to bring St. Joseph to the south and only have five Norcal teams outdoors?
Brian Seymour: We only had the sensation that the realm from which they arrive makes more sense for them within the south than to play within the north. We have already placed it (you within the north) and it was plenty of time on the road for a lot of these teams. It only makes more sense that we do that with almost each of our section teams in the middle and check out to share them geographically each time possible. … there have been also some discussions on the boy about whether Indderkum must be open to the boy and we also spent plenty of time with it.
Nathan Canilao: On the side of the ladies, Acalanes received the seed no. 4 outdoors and Pinewood received the No. 6. Both teams lost their title games of the department, however it was certain that Pinewood against Mitty, the highest seeds of the division, was more competitive. Was there a consideration of putting pinewood in front of Acalanes?
Brian Seymour: Ultimately, we have now idea long before the games are literally played. It was a surprise of the rating between San Ramon Valley and Acalanes. No surprise in any respect that SRV won, but you normally don't see that. We saw really close games between Pinewood and Mitty. The committee looks in any respect of this they usually attempt to make sure that there aren’t any repetitions of a bit. Much of it has something to do with it, but there they decided with these schools on the ladies' side.
Nathan Canilao: How much inventory is built into the section championship games and if a team has a one -sided loss, how does it have in mind the way it sown?
Brian Seymour: Not as much as everyone thinks. If you might be a team within the Big Ten tournament and lose the nation of the nation and the quarter -finals, you’ll still be a seed No. 1 within the NCAA tournament. So let's take a take a look at all of the work. It's not necessarily a game. You must see how teams play at the moment within the yr. That also has something to do with it.
Nathan Canilao: The Boys team from Dougherty Valley has two teams within the NCS Open Division, a better seed within the Norcal D1 clip as NCS Division I Champion I about California and Liberty. Did you think that that the NCS just misunderstood it and that it needed to be corrected for the state playoffs?
Brian Seymour: The NCS uses the pc rating for the primary time to find out the location of your teams. So if you will have something latest, you will have to undergo it for a number of years to repair the mistakes which might be presented when you only use the pc. We not only use computers for the status, but we use various different computer methods and metrics. But within the case of the NCS, the pc spat the rank and had Dougherty Valley on the skin of his open division with six teams. And when Dougherty Valley played thoroughly in Division I and Cal High and Liberty from the NCS Open from the north coast department were, and said: 'Hey, you realize what, that is a chance to proceed and place a team that plays thoroughly in the intervening time. “
Nathan Canilao: Dougherty Valley got the seed no. 6 in the division I and right behind Dublin is in 7th place. Dublin scored a head-to-head victory against Dougherty Valley and won a game in the NCS Open Division. Why was Dougherty Valley gave the nod?
Brian Seymour: Dougherty only played really good basketball and the committee felt as in the event that they had earned themselves on this place.
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