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Pasadena Star-News Boys' Basketball Poll
& Stats Leaders--(February 3, 1998)

Well, we've featured the Daily News and the LA Times' regional polls, and the Stats Leaders from both of those papers. So now it's time for Pasadena to get into the act. Here is the Boy's Basketball poll for the Pasadena region for this week.

Now this is a really interesting poll, which shows just how truly limited "regional" polls are. Temple City loses one game, and yet they drop from No. 3 to No. 6. But last week's No. 7 Blair was 8-7. This week, after compiling a record of 9-11 (we're not sure how they played so many games in one week--5 in all, an error we suspect, but they've now got a losing record, yet they've moved up two spots in the poll to number 5. We don't get it.

Does the Blair team have compromising pictures of the sportswriter picking the poll? Can you say Monica Lewinsky? And what does such a selection say about the quality of the teams with winning records who ranked lower? They're probably better than their record, but what does this poll really mean? That the records are not reflective? That the teams in this area are just not competitive with the bigger "progam" schools? So tell us something we don't know already. Anyway, we don't really believe in this stuff, but people keep writing to us asking for more and more polls. So here's the Pasadena area poll.

Rank Team Record Last Week
No 1 Marshall 16-5 1
No. 2 Muir 17-5 2
No. 3 La Canada 18-5 4
No. 4 Pasadena 13-10 6
No. 5 Blair 9-11 7
No. 6 Temple City 12-9 3
No. 7 Monrovia 15-4 5
No. 8 Pasadena Poly 12-7 8
No. 9 St. Francis 10-9 10
No. 10 La Salle 11-12 NR
No. 10 Gabrielino 13-7 9

And here are the scoring leaders for the area as well, as published by the Star-News today:

Player School Games Pts 3 Pt Avg.
Copeland Temple City 21 600 69 28.6
Escobar Southwestern 11 295 10 26.8
Moore La Canada 22 510 0 23.2
Aki Aquino La Salle 22 488 60 22.2
Richard Fields St. Francis 19 358 -- 18.8
Parker Muir 22 400 5 18.2
M. Edwards Blair 17 298 28 17.5
La Velle St. Francis 19 333 -- 17.5
Josh Johnson Temple City 21 355 45 16.9
Becker San Marino 19 312 63 16.4
Frederick Monrovia 19 307 35 16.2
Oberlander Southlands 16 254 0 15.9
Sullivan La Canada 23 361 85 15.7
Castro Gabrielino 20 306 26 15.3
Haden Pasadena Poly 18 237 4 13.2
Del Toro San Gabriel 17 222 25 13.1
Scranton St. Francis 19 245 -- 12.9
Hamady Maranatha 16 203 15 12.7
Archibong Pasadena Poly 18 226 1 12.6
Washington Muir 21 265 30 12.6
Maxey Gabrielino 20 249 15 12.5
Newkirk Maranatha 13 160   12.3
Brown Flintridge Prep 9 106 -- 11.8
Rowe Muir 20 225 1 11.3
Sutton Southlands 16 178 0 11.1
Clark Monrovia 19 198 13 10.4
Bakhourn Muir 22 224 24 10.2
Bullock Southwestern 9 92 6 10.2
Cass Maranatha 14 140 30 10.0
Rawcliffe Monrovia 19 190 15 10.0

And the rebounding leader is Oberland of Southlands, who is averaging 13.4 (215 in 16 games) while David Escobar of Southwestern has dropped into second place with 140 in 11 games for a 12.7 rebound per game average (the same as last week--didn't they play?). The leading assist king is Cass of Maranatha, with 132 assists in 14 games, for an 8.8 average assist per game, also the same as last week, so these stats must only be updated infrequently by the Star-News.

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