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If you’re consuming this content, which we used to call “reading,” then you follow high school sports which means you likely remember the rankings system that placed football teams into the playoff divisions. The basics of that system are now also in place for other CIF Southern Section sports, including the boys and girls basketball playoffs that begin Feb. 12.
Every CIF-SS boys basketball team and every CIF-SS girls basketball team that qualifies for the playoffs will be placed in a playoff division according to its power-points number at the end of the regular season. The first version of the boys and girls rankings were released this week. Those rankings will look different each Monday when they are updated and posted on the CIF-SS website until the regular season ends Feb.
5. The system the Southern Section is using is SB Live’s Colley Royalty Method. According to the Southern Section’s season preview, this method is a “linear algebra-based ranking algorithm.
” Well, OK. You can consume content about it in the season preview for basketball on the CIF Southern Section website, cifss.org.
You will learn that the Colley Royalty Method base equation is derived from Laplace’s Rule of Succession. “Colley” is Westley Colley, an astrophysicist. The important stuff to know is that teams that qualified for the playoffs will be grouped into divisions by their power-points profiles.
The top eight or so teams will be in the top division, the Open Division. Then the next 32 teams will be placed into Division 1, the next 32 into Division 2AA, and down to the group of 32 playoff teams in the lowest playoff division. In the rankings released this week, St.
John Bosoco is the section’s No. 1 team with a rating of 2.644 (the lowest ranking is a -0.
655). Taking a look at Orange County boys basketball teams, the Colley’ Royalty Method is in some disagreement with how yours truly ranks county boys basketball teams. The Colley Royalty Method has Canyon at No.
6 in its CIF-SS rankings. That is the highest ranking of an Orange County team. After Canyon comes No.
7 JSerra, No. 15 Mater Dei, No. 18 Corona del Mar, No.
19 Pacifica Christian and No. 22 Santa Margarita. The Orange County Top 25 prepared by me has Santa Margarita at No.
1 in the county. The county Top 25 has Los Alamitos, widely regarded by Orange County coaches as the best public-school team in the county, at No. 3.
The Colley’s Method has Los Alamitos at No. 57 in the CIF Southern Section which puts Los Alamitos at No. 17 among Orange County teams.
Colley’s Method has 10 O.C. public school teams ranked above Los Alamitos.
The Colley’s Method CIF-SS girls basketball rankings have Ontario Christian, Sierra Canyon and Mater Dei at Nos. 1-2-3. That looks good.
My Orange County Register partner Dan Albano, who is in charge of our coverage of county girls basketball, said a couple of oddities in the girls ranking include Sage Hill at No. 43, which puts Sage at No. 10 among Orange County girls teams; Sage Hill is No.
2 in this week’s O.C. girls basketball rankings .
Albano also found Etiwanda, at No. 11 in the Colley’s Method, to be several positions lower than where he would place Etiwanda. Back to boys basketball .
.. The Classic at Damien boys basketball tournament ended Monday.
It is the premier boys basketball tournament in California. The tournament’s top division of its eight divisions was the Platinum Division, a 16-team group of very elite teams that included Los Alamitos and Santa Margarita. The Platinum Division included the Colley’s Method No.
1, 4 and 5 CIF-SS teams that in order are St. John Bosco, Roosevelt of Eastvale and La Mirada. Somebody figured Los Alamitos and Santa Margarita belonged with that group.
NOTES The CIF Southern Section has a website to which all teams in all sports are required to enter their season schedule and wins and losses. The CIF-SS basketball season preview informs member schools that failure to enter accurate results into its will result in the team being ineligible for the playoffs. A look through website reveals that some teams are not entering all of their results.
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The Kiernan Klassic girls basketball showcase is Saturday at Mater Dei High. The event honors Kevin Kiernan, who coached Mater Dei girls basketball for 17 seasons before stepping down at the end of last season. Kiernan also coached at La Quinta and Troy and, with consummate class, amassed a state-record 900 wins with six CIF State championships and 12 CIF-SS championships.
The eight-game event Saturday includes Orange County girls basketball No. 2 Sage Hill vs. No.
3 Fairmont Prep at 4:30 p.m. and a boys game to finish the event, Mater Dei vs.
San Marcos at 7:30 p.m. .
.. Tustin boys basketball coach Ringo Bossenmeyer this season surpassed 500 career wins, most of them at Tustin and many of them at Orange.
He is acknowledged by his peers as being among the best in his profession. ..
. University boys basketball coach Beau Budde left the program, saying he needed to step aside to focus on family health matters. Budde was an outstanding quarterback at San Clemente in the early 2000s.
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Kennedy won the championship of the Blue Division of the Douglas Uselton Memorial Tournament at Oxford Academy. Kennedy (16-4) beat Oxford 67-47 in the division final Monday. .
.. The Doc Buchanan Tournament, annually one of the top wrestling events in the western U.
S., is being held Friday and Saturday in Clovis. Among the Orange County wrestlers in it are Fountain Valley senior Khale McDonnell (Oregon State signeed), ranked by FloWrestling.
com at No. 11 nationally at 218 pounds, and Esperanza freshman sensation Samuel Sanchez who is No. 2 nationally at 109 pounds.
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Orange Lutheran leads the girls water polo group for the Bill Barnett Holiday Cup that is Friday and Saturday at Corona del Mar and Foothill high schools. Orange Lutheran, which went 31-0 last season and won the CIF-SS Open Division championship, is 5-0 this season. .
.. Edison’s girls soccer team beat Los Alamitos 1-0 in the Excalibur Tournament of Champions.
The Chargers won on penalty kicks 5-4, with Riley Crooks getting the winning goal for Edison. ..
. The regular signing period for college-bound football players is Feb. 5.
It won’t have nearly the uncommitted/new commitment activity that happened in the three-day early signing period last month. ..
. Mater Dei senior running back Jordon Davison was named California football player of the year for the 2024 season. Davison signed with Oregon and, like several top county football players, he is already enrolled at his college destination.
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