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CIF-SS Boys Division IV-AA Bracket:
First Round Pairings--(Feb. 10, 2002)

This is a 32-team bracket with no "Wild-Card" games, and no "byes".   The top seeds are No. 1 El Segundo, No. 2 Harvard-Westlake, No. 3 Rosamond, and No. 4 Chaminade.    Before getting to the bracket though, a couple of things are apparent:   First, the CIF did the right thing by keeping Harvard-Westlake and Chaminade away from each other, putting them in opposite ends of the bracket.  Second, no, that's not a typo, Harvard-Westlake, despite being the No. 2 seed will play an away game in the first round against Village Christian.  Why?  Because CIF Bylaws stipulate that for purposes of constructing the brackets, a No. 2 league entry will play a No. 3 league entry and the higher league representative gets the home game in the first round.  H-W finished third in their league (after a tie-breaker giving Chaminade the No. 2 league finish based on a coin flip), so the Woverines will have to get their first win in the playoffs in two years (H-W didn't qualify for playoffs last season) on the road.

We'll have more on each of the teams in these brackets later, but in the meantime, here's the bracket:

First round games
Friday
February 15
  Second Round
Tuesday
February 19
Quarterfinals
Friday
Feb 22
Semifinals
Tuesday
Feb 26
Finals
March 2
@ Pond
Upper half of Bracket
Maranatha @ El Segundo          
Carpinteria @ St. Monica
Mojave @ Loma Linda Academy  
Brentwood @ Calvary Chapel SA
Paraclete @ La Salle    
Valley Christian Cer. @ Twentynine Palms
St. Bonaventure @ St. Joseph SM  
Providence @ Chaminade
Lower half of Bracket
Big Bear @ Rosamond        
Milken @ Murphy
St. Paul @ Orange Lutheran  
Fillmore @ Crossroads
Crespi @ Oak Park    
Kern Valley @ Desert Christian L.
Notre Dame Riverside @ Duarte  
Harvard-Westlake @ Village Christian

All games with the exception of the final round will start at 7:30 p.m. unless another time is mutually agreed upon and clearance is received from the CIF-SS Office.  Public coin flips will be held in the lobby of the CIF-SS Office at 9:00 a.m. the day following each playoff game [these coin flips will determine subsquent sites after the first round, i.e., which school will be the host].  Coin flips will be available after 9:30 a.m. and we'll try to keep everyone posted with them here. 

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