NorCal Boys Basketball Rankings Continue To Be The East Bay Athletic League’s Playground As San Ramon Valley Storms Into Top 5 •
NorCal Boys Basketball Rankings
All records are through Tuesday, Jan. 3. Previous rank in parenthesis. Records obtained through MaxPreps.com
PICTURED ABOVE: No. 4 San Ramon Valley-Danville Poses For Photos After Winning The Classic At Damien In La Verne. (Connor Morrissette photo/Twitter).
1. (1) Modesto Christian 8-4
2. (2) Archbishop Mitty-San Jose 8-2
3. (3) Dougherty Valley-San Ramon 14-1
4. (NR) San Ramon Valley-Danville 14-1
5. (4) Jesuit-Sacramento 9-3
6. (5) Folsom 13-1
7. (6) Inderkum-Sacramento 10-2
8. (8) Archbishop Riordan-S.F. 7-2
9. (9) De La Salle-Concord 11-3
10. (10) Granada-Livermore 11-3
11. (11) Dublin 10-5
12. (7) Salesian-Richmond 8-6
13. (13) Vanden-Fairfield 10-5
14. (14) Campolindo-Moraga 8-4
15. (15) Cardinal Newman-Santa Rosa 15-0
16. (16) Branson-Ross 11-2
17. (NR) Atwater 15-0
18. (18) Oakland 11-4
19. (19) Capital Christian-Sacramento 9-3
20. (17) St. Francis-Mountain View 7-2
DROPPED OUT:
No. 12 Bishop O’Dowd-Oakland and No. 20 Clayton Valley
5 TEAMS KNOCKING:
21. Monte Vista-Danville (12-3), 22. St. Mary’s-Stockton (11-3), 23. Monterey Trail-Elk Grove (5-8), 24. Santa Cruz (11-3) and 25. Benicia (9-1).
FAST BREAKDOWN
Just five teams move down and two teams drop out of the NorCal Boys Basketball Rankings. Beyond that it was a whole lot of teams holding firm and a handful climbing. That’s not bad after two-plus weeks of high profile holiday tournament action.
That doesn’t mean there wasn’t a fair amount of losses for ranked teams, but nearly all of the defeats came against Southern California or out-of-state opponents. And in nearly ever instance, we don’t punish teams for those. It’s NorCal rankings, so NorCal results carry the most weight.
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However, showing out in a SoCal tournament and coming back 4-0 with a trophy can certainly send you upward. That’s what San Ramon Valley-Danville did in the Gold Division of the prestigious Classic At Damien in La Verne. Our previous No. 4 Jesuit-Carmichael attended the same tournament and managed to go just 2-2, losing to a pair of teams (Roosevelt-Eastvale and Ironwood of Arizona) that SRV defeated en route to the title. And that’s why you now find the Wolves at No. 4.
The East Bay Athletic League can now claim five of the Top 11 teams in what’s been an unprecedented start to the 2022-23 season for that league. A sixth team, Monte Vista-Danville (12-3), sits right at the doorstep as well. At this point, we may be moving our boys ranking to Wednesdays in order to have Tuesday EBAL results. The Jan. 10 matchups will include San Ramon Valley against No. 3 Dougherty Valley-San Ramon.
There’s still good hoops being played outside of the East Bay’s Tri-Valley, though. The other team to crack the NorCal Boys Basketball Rankings this weeks is an undefeated Atwater squad. The Falcons are now 15-0 and have a win over a Santa Cruz team that has already beaten No. 18 Oakland and No. 20 St. Francis-Mountain View.