Nathan Kempen had the hot hand shooting while Logan Kilbert scored 27 points for Sierra of Tollhouse on Saturday night in its win at Venture Academy (Stockton) in the D5 NorCal semis. Photo: Mark Tennis.
Here’s the second of three divisional state rankings for the 2022-23 season. It’s after the Saturday night CIF regional semifinals but before the regional finals. The third of the divisional rankings will be the final ones done (expanded in each division) after next weekend’s CIF state championships in Sacramento. No. 1 teams after Saturday are Centennial of Corona (Open), Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (D1), Lutheran of Orange (D2), Oakland Tech (D3), Valencia (D4) and Lynwood (D5).
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Note: These rankings are based on the usual factors of schedule strength, head-to-head wins and results from the first three rounds of the regional playoffs. We can’t obviously do division rankings until after the CIF announces regional brackets since no one knows which divisions to put any of the teams in. We also like to do these rankings since the upcoming divisional all-state teams will be based on these same divisions.
