Mitch Stephens' all stars

Here are Mitch Stephens' first, second and third All-Bay Area teams, plus his honorable mentions.

April 5 -- your northern California prep basketball roundup

Mitch Stephens has posted his all - Bay Area regional honorees and it's difficult to argue with his selections.

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Bonta Hill reports that Coach John DeBenedetti is departing from his SI coaching duties.

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Jeremy Russotti and John Nagle are offering basketball skills training at Solano College.

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Former De La Salle backcourter Jose Rivera and Merced High star guard Allen Huddleston are departing from Pacific.

March 29 -- your northern California high school basketball report

Mitch Stephens has posted his take on the state tournament held over the weekend, plus his fianl team rankings.

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The Inside Bay Area (IBA) folks offer some boys basketball notes, again reflecting on the state tourney.

The IBA final team rankings can be found here.

March 27 -- your northern California high school basketball report

Douglas Benton has all the boys game reports from yesterday as well as individual spotlights.

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Mitch Stephens reports on yesterday's DLS and BOD games -- aka Black Saturday --  up in Sacramento.

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Mitch is here with Salesian's loss.

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Jimmy Durkin also covered the BOD loss.

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Bill Paterson has the details on two of the championship games for the boys.

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From the southern California perspective, Eric Sondheimer has more on the MD - DLS matchup.

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Eric and Steve Galluzzo collaborate on the game reports for the LaVerne win over BOD and Windward triumph over Salesian.

Mitch Stephens on Salesian High

Mitch Stephens covers the ups-and-downs, many more of the former than the latter, of Salesian's quirky season.

March 20 -- Sunday's northern California high school basketball report

Mitch Stephens has all the scores and reports from yesterday's games in Sacramento and Folsom.

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Jimmy Durkin offers a De la Salle - Castro Valley game report plus Jimmy is all over the Bishop O'Dowd triumph against El Cerrito..

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Tony Gonzalez was present and accounted for in Salesian's win over St. Mary's. Tony also caught the St. Joseph Notre Dame victory versus University. Jeremy Balan c0ompletes the SJND - University coverage.

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Bill Paterson was uber busy yesterday -- here he reports on the DLS and Castro Valley, here is Mitty topping Woodcreek and here is BOD proving too much for E; Cerrito.

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Archbishop Mitty 67, Woodcreek 44

AM --  Kyle Toth 7-2-20 (four treys), Colin Wan 4-2-10, Aaron Gordon 5-0-10

WC -- Devin Murphy 5-3-13, John Peska 5-2-12

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Joe Davidson provides a little known or maybe unknown Frank Allocco - Pete Carrill connection.

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Brian VanderBeek writes that Logan Vos is the 2011 Modesto Bee Stanislaus District Player of the Year.

Here is the Bee's All-District Boys Basketball Team.

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Ryan Moses presents the Santa Cruz Sentinel Most Valuable Player and All-County team.

March 19 -- Saturday's northern California high school basketball roundup

Mitch Stephens goes Miss Cleo and predicts the outcomes of today's Nor Cal matchups.

Mitch also features DLS's Travis Pacos.

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Jimmy Durkin previews the DLS - Castro Valley game.

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East Bay Prep Corner will be liveblogging all the games today and tonight.

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Bill Paterson looks at the boys pairings.

The Wednesday northern California high school basketball report

Alex Pavlovic says it was St. Francis over Leigh and an Aaron Gordon-led Archbishop Mitty slamming Palo Alto.

St. Francis 53, Leigh 46

SF -- Chang 7-3-17, Harris 6-2-14, Margaretic 3-3-10

Leigh -- D. Patterson 4-1-9, Nijor 4-0-9

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Archbishop Mitty 60, Palo Alto 39

AM -- Toth 6-0-14, Vranicar 4-1-11, Gordon 4-2-10

PA -- Adams 6-1-13, Schmarzo 4-0-10

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Mitch Stephens also provides a games article.

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Bill Paterson reports it was Antelope over Woodcreek. Bill also writes it was St. Mary's (Stockton) winning over Cordova High. Stephen Roberson also was there and serves up his take.

Joe Davidson has the details about Darius Nelson's last shot winning it for Sheldon against Granite Bay. Joe also tells us about Jesuit's triumph versus Franklin.

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Phil Barber lauds Analy's Max Fujii who will lead his squad against El Cerrito High.

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Julie Jag offers the scoop on Santa Cruz High's win over Palma. John Devine was also there.

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John Devine also covered the Sacred Heart Prep second half blasting of Carmel.

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It's Skyline High 69-62 over Castlemont High.

Your Tuesday northern California high school basketball report

So which high school player enjoyed the best regular season? Mitch Stephens offers up a bevy of possibilities.

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Jimmy Durkin and Ben Enos offer up a piece on the realignment of the NCS.

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Jimmy also has the details about the home court decided upon for the Wednesday Castro Valley High - Newark Memorial High matchup.

That seems like it for today unless we come across further links.

Monday's northern California high school basketball report

The pickin's are slim today but Mitch Stephens has posted his top performances from last week plus 10 games to watch -- and there most certainly are some matchups to take in.

Tuesday's northern California high school basketball report

Love 'em or hate 'em, here are Mitch Stephens' playoff picks, plus more.

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Here is Joe Davidson doing the same for up Sacramento way.

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San Fran Preps has University High in the top spot this week.

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What do you call it when a player not only averages a double-double but is very close to being in the 20s in scoring AND rebounding? San Marin's Stuart Wesonga is at 21.5 ppg. and 18.4 rpg. Head here for all the Marin County basketball stats.

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Dom Artis took Bay Shore Athletic league top player honors -- head here to read more selections.

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Brian VanderBeek of the Modesto Bee looks at the upcoming playoff pairings and makes some interesting predictions.

Monday's northern California High school basketball report

Mitch Stephens is here with his weekly bests and games to watch.

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John Dugan delves into the background of the San Marin High starting five -- a very informative read.

Theo Fightmaster writes about San Marin's (and that of others) unhappiness with playoff placement.

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Jimmy Durkin has an article on some of the various selection and placements made yesterday.

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Courtesy of the Mercury News, here is the CCS playoff schedule.

Three prep links for you

Joe Davidson offers up a short video of Sheldon taking down Oak Ridge.

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Mitch Stephens serves up his highlights of the week plus what to look for this week. Here is Mitch on the Jabari Bird reinstatement.

Mitch Stephens' weekly report

Here are the top prep players of the past week and upcoming games to watch per Mitch Stephens.

A Monday compilation of links

Here are Mitch Stephens' Best of The Week player performances.

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The folks at Inside Bay Area prep sports will be live-blogging the MLK Classic beginning today at 3:30.

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Courtesy of the Sacramento Bee, here are a bevy of stats from players in the Sacramento area.

Some Monday morning prep links

Here's Mitch Stephens with his latest on the Bay Area prep basketball scene.

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Here's Matt Schwab with his latest on the East Bay/Contra Costa prep basketball scene, including the return of a certain Milpitas High coach.

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Here's Harold Abend on the deeper meaning of Lincoln's victory over Jordan.

Mitch Stephens looks at Bay Area prep basketball

Mitch Stephens offers a great summary of news, notes and predictions on Bay Area prep hoops in the first month.

Here's Mitch Stephens with the Crusader Classic outcomes

Go here for Mitch Stephens' recap of the Crusader Classic, including the most valuable player and all tourney selections.

More prep scores

Mitch Stephens has more prep scores from last night -- San Ramon Valley and Burlingame were winners while St. Mary's again fell, this time to Castlemont -- head here.

The SF Chronicle All Metro Team

Here's Mitch Stephens with his selections:

2009-10 All-Metro boys basketball teams
Mitch Stephens, Special to The Chronicle
April 13, 2010

First team

F Desmond Simmons Salesian 6-8 Sr.Washington-bound star nearly impossible to guard
F Brandon Ashley Bishop O'Dowd 6-8 So. Regarded as one of top sophomores in country
C John McArthur De La Salle 6-9 Sr. Led 29-3 Spartans
G Tyler Johnson St. Francis 6-2 Sr. Led Lancers to unprecedented unbeaten WCAL season
G Chris McNealy San Ramon Valley 6-4 Sr. Game reminds many of Skyline great Gary Payton

Go here for the remainder of Stephens' picks.