{"id":851,"date":"2011-02-14T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/poly-draws-top-seed-in-cif-basketball-playoff-bracket\/"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:52:00","slug":"poly-draws-top-seed-in-cif-basketball-playoff-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/poly-draws-top-seed-in-cif-basketball-playoff-bracket","title":{"rendered":"Poly Draws Top Seed In CIF Basketball Playoff Bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10:11am |<\/strong> A star-studded Long Beach Poly boys basketball team leads the field into the CIF Playoffs this week, earning the No. 1 seed in the Division 1AA bracket with an undefeated Moore League title season and a 24-1 overall record.<\/p>\n<p>Poly will face Santiago (14-13, Corona), an at-large entry from the Big VIII league. The first-round matchup will take place at 7:00pm this Wednesday at Long Beach Poly High School.<\/p>\n<p>With Division 1 signees in forward Ryan Anderson (Boston College) and point guard Alexis Moore (USC), Poly is the odds-on favorite to win the CIF Title and a popular choice to win State. Senior forward Alex Carmon and sophomore Roschon Prince provide a stellar compliment.<\/p>\n<p>Perrenial powerhouse Mater Dei earned the No. 2 seed with a 22-2 overall record, and will face Rancho Cucamonga (13-14) this Wednesday. Centennial of Corona (23-3) earned the No. 3 seed while Etiwanda (25-2) captured the No. 4 spot.<\/p>\n<p>There will be Long Beach flavor in that game, as local Wilson High School (14-12) draws Etiwanda as their first-round opponent after a fourth place finish in the Moore League. Third-place Lakewood (16-10) will travel to No. 9 Thousand Oaks (19-8) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The second-place finisher in the Moore League, Compton (18-9), competes in the Division 2AA bracket and earned the No. 4 overall seed. Talented senior point guard Allan Guei and the Tarbabes will face Inland Valley champion Canyon Springs (16-10) this Wednesday to kick off their playoff schedule. Compton is looking for another crack at a CIF Title after falling in last year&#8217;s championship game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A star-studded Long Beach Poly boys basketball team leads the field into the CIF Playoffs this week, earning the No. 1 seed in the Division 1AA bracket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}