Boys' basketball: Westchester is top seed in City Section

Boys’ basketball: Westchester is top seed in City Section

Staff Writer

Feb. 14, 2009 10:27 AM PT

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By virtue of leading Fairfax in three of the four criteria used by the City Section selection committee--overall ratings index, ratings percentage index, strength of schedule and the coaches’ poll--Westchester landed the top seed this morning for the City Section Division I playoffs. Westchestern and Fairfax split their two meetings during the regular season.

The seeding breakdown:

1. Westchester

2. Fairfax

3. Taft

4. Cleveland

5. Sylmar

6. Crenshaw

7. Washington

8. Fremont

9. Palisades

10. Dorsey

11. Jordan

12. Birmingham

13. Van Nuys

14. Gardena

15. West Adams

16. Carson

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.