No. 2 Harvard-Westlake headlines boys Open Division pool play field, while No. 1 Ontario Christian highlights girls side.

The Open Division is a pool-play format with 10 teams divided into two groups. The winner of each pool advances to the championship game. All of the other divisions are single elimination. All games start at 7 p.m. West Covina at Palmdale Aerospace Acad.

With the CIF-Southern Section debuting a new computer-based system to determine postseason seeding this season, local high school basketball coaches experienced a range of emotions leading up to the playoff bracket release Saturday.

The Mustangs have a tougher challenge ahead with the Open Division having been expanded to include 10 teams for the first time.

Twenty teams from the Press-Telegram area will compete in boys basketball playoffs. St. John Bosco and La Mirada are in the Open Division; Long Beach Poly, St. Anthony, Los Alamitos and St. Pius

Competitive equity' has been used to determine the high school football players for four seasons, now it's being used in basketball.

CIF-SS is using computer rankings, based on performance this season, to place teams into playoff divisions. What could go wrong? Some fear that a lot of excellent teams will be left out and

The CIF-SS girls basketball playoffs will begin on Thursday, Feb. 13. St. Anthony made the Division 1 playoffs. Long Beach Poly, Lakewood, Lynwood, St. Joseph and Paramount made Division 2AA.

Redondo, the Bay League co-champions, was one of the 10. The Sea Hawks are the seventh seed and are in Pool B, along with No. 2 Roosevelt, No. 3 St. John Bosco, No. 6 Sierra Canyon and No. 10 Heritage Christian.