The official Sac-Joaquin Section playoff brackets will not be released until Sunday but expect the Davis High girls basketball team to be included in the Division I field of 16.
According to my calculations – and this is assuming the results posted on maxpreps.com are correct – the Blue Devils (13-13, 7-5) would get the No. 15 seed and would face West of Tracy (20-5, 8-2 Tri-City Athletic League) in the first round. This is the same first-round matchup as last year when DHS pulled out a 60-46 win over the host Wolf Pack.
The Blue Devils put their hopes in jeopardy by losing both games of the Delta Valley Conference tournament when winning one would have assured them a playoff berth. They fell on Wednesday to fifth-place Franklin and lost to third-place Elk Grove, a team they had defeated twice this year, on Friday.
In my spreadsheet, DHS tied Golden Valley for 15th place. But because DVC foe Kennedy should get the top seed and the CIF’s tendency to not match up teams from the same conference in the first round, Golden Valley will likely be seeded No. 16 to create an all-Cougars matchup in the first round.
Interestingly enough, the Blue Devils may have been bailed out by former MEL rival Napa which defeated Vintage on Friday night. Had the Crushers won, they would have been in the playoffs ahead of DHS and Golden Valley, which would have been tied for the final spot in that situation. The CIF doesn’t list tiebreakers on their web Site, so not sure which team would have gotten the final spot in that scenario.
– Conor Tekautz
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