Santa Barbara, Mission Prep are home to begin State basketball tourney, St. Joseph earns bye

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The CIF-State Tournament boys basketball bracket was announced and several local teams received bids.

The St. Joseph Knights are in the top Open Division and received a first round bye in the SoCal region. St. Joe will host the winner of the Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks vs Montgomery match up in a regional semifinal this Saturday.

In Division 1 Santa Barbara is seeded 8th in Southern California side and will host #9 Mission Bay on Tuesday, March 4.

The St. Bonaventure Seraphs get the 10th seed in Division 2 and will play at Cleveland on Tuesday.

Both Mission Prep of San Luis Obispo and Righetti are in the SoCal Division 3 bracket.

Mission Prep is the #4 seed and will host Venice while Righetti is #16 and will play at #1 seed Palisades.

Both first round games are on Tuesday.