Three of Harvard-Westlake’s best — Joe Sterling, Amir Jones and Isaiah Carroll — helped the team win the Nike TOC bracket title last week in Arizona in a final game matchup with another California team, De La Salle of Concord. Photo: Ronnie Flores.
After the plethora of holiday tournaments and New Year’s events, the top five remain the same in our weekly State Top 30 boys basketball rankings. The big questions are is No. 6 JSerra as strong as the first five and can NorCal’s top clubs realistically compete with any of them? There are five newcomers led by No. 19 Rancho Cucamonga and one of the teams to drop out is Mater Dei of Santa Ana, which is not among the Top 20 for the first time in 27 seasons. We also offer an early comment about the computer rankings that the CIF Southern Section will be using to seed all playoff teams this season.
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CAL-HI SPORTS UPDATED TOP 30
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(Previous rating in parentheses; through games of Saturday, Jan. 4; This is the 45th consecutive season that CalHiSports.com is providing weekly boys basketball state rankings)
