CLICK HERE<\/a> to view the brackets on the CIF-SS website<\/p>\nDivision 1<\/p>\n
The top two teams in the Moore League find themselves in the second-toughest division. This year, the CIF-SS chose 12 teams for the top-tier Open Division (rather than eight) due to increased parity in SoCal hoops.<\/p>\n
The Moore League champions from Millikan (22-6) played four of those Open Division teams and were competitive in most of those matchups, and they\u2019ll start the D1 playoffs with a home game against Marmonte League at-large Thousand Oaks (23-4).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe played four Open Division teams, and all that was preparation for this,\u201d said Millikan head coach Stephon Price of his challenging non-league slate this season. \u201cFrom the workouts, the games we played, it was for this Moore League run and for the playoffs coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the other half of the D1 bracket, Long Beach Poly (19-9) has a tough road test against Brentwood (25-3) in the opening round. The Eagles are co-champions of the Gold Coast League, and have a 75-68 win over Millikan on their resume from back on Dec. 30.<\/p>\n
Division 2<\/p>\n
In the next bracket, the St. Anthony Saints (15-10) got a home game after tying for second place in the Del Rey League. They\u2019ll host the Leuzinger Olympians (17-13) in round one, the second-place team out of the Ocean League.<\/p>\n
Division 3<\/p>\n
Fresh off their victory in the Moore League\u2019s fourth-place play-in game, the Wilson Bruins (15-10) will hit the road to Riverside to take on ML King (19-11) in the first round.<\/p>\n
The Wolves have lost four of their last five games coming into the playoffs, and enter as an at-large selection from the Big VIII League.<\/p>\n
Division 4<\/p>\n
The Jordan Panthers (11-12) enter as the No. 3 seed from the Moore League, closing out their league schedule with some key buzzer-beating wins over Wilson and Cabrillo to extend their season into the playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Panthers will make the relatively short trip to Fountain Valley to take on the Los Amigos Lobos (20-7), unbeaten champions of the Coast League. The Lobos enter the playoffs on a nine-game winning streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postseason basketball starts next week, and there\u2019s a handful of Long Beach boys\u2019 hoops teams ready to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-169177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}