South teams make majority of CCCSIA State Top 20 Women's Basketball ratings

PASADENA - Led by Moorpark's complete stranglehold on the No. 1 spot, the South region makes up 65 percent of this week's California Community College Sports Information Association (CCCSIA) Women's Basketball State Top 20 Rankings. 

The Raiders (27-1) again picked up all 15 first-place votes as they clinched at least a tie for the Western State Conference North Division title while on an 11-game win streak. While only #3 Los Angeles Trade Tech, #6 East Los Angeles, #9 Mt. San Jacinto, and #10 El Camino are among the top 10, South teams make up eight of the other 10 remaining spots. 

The best of the North begins with #2 Diablo Valley, then followed by the Central Valley dynamic duo of #4 College of the Sequoias and #5 Merced. At #7 San Joaquin Delta and then #8 City College of San Francisco, the North may not have a majority overall, but certainly are considered to have more firepower in occupying five top 8 slots and are #11 as well with Sierra.

Ventura had the biggest leap in the rankings, jumping four spots to #13. Glendale also moved up three rankings to #15. Sacramento City had the biggest drop of four spots to #19 while Palomar (#14) and Pasadena City (#17) each tumbled three steps. 

With the final week of regular season play, many conferences are going down to the wire as only four--Mt. San Jacinto, Glendale, #18 West Los Angeles, and unranked Solano--thus far have won their titles outright. 

Last week's top upset was turned in by unranked Cerritos over El Camino, 78-63. 

Moorpark continues to be the RPI ratings leader at .660, followed by LA Trade Tech (.650) and East LA (.645). Diablo Valley is the North's new RPI leader at #5 with a .631 mark.

Diablo Valley maintains the state's highest-scoring offense at 88.3 points per game. Glendale has lowered their state-leading top defense now at 49.4 points allowed average. 

Top 10 teams losses (last week in bold):
Moorpark: #6 East Los Angeles
Diablo Valley: #11 Sierra
LA Trade Tech: #9 Mt. San Jacinto, #12 Mt. San Antonio, #15 Glendale, #17 Pasadena
Sequoias: #5 Merced (2), Pasadena
Merced: #2 Diablo Valley, #1 Moorpark, #4 Sequoias
East Los Angeles: Skyline, #20 Cypress, #14 Palomar, #8 San Francisco, #3 LA Trade Tech
San Joaquin Delta: Merced, #18 Sacramento, #13 Ventura, Diablo Valley (2)
San Francisco: Sierra, Ventura, Skyline
Mt. San Jacinto: Palomar, Moorpark (2), Ventura, Mt. San Antonio, Rio Hondo
El Camino: East LA (2), Fullerton, #16 Irvine Valley, Palomar, Cerritos

Conference Leaders
Bay Valley: Solano wins title at 9-1
Big 8: Diablo Valley clinched at least tie for title (and top conference seed) at 14-1
Central Valley: Merced at 10-1 is 1/2 game ahead of Sequoias at 9-1
Coast North: San Francisco leads at 9-1
Coast South: unranked Mission leads at 8-0
Golden Valley: unranked Shasta and Siskiyous tied at 7-2
Orange Empire: #16 Irvine Valley, #20 Cypress tied at 10-2
Pacific Coast Athletic North: Mt. San Jacinto wins title at 6-0
Pacific Coast Athletic South: unranked Southwestern leads at 4-2, Imperial Valley, Grossmont trail at 4-3
South Coast North: LA Trade Tech, East LA tied at 7-1
South Coast South: El Camino and unranked Cerritos tied at 7-1
Western State East: Glendale wins title at 9-0
Western State North: Moorpark clinched at least tie for title at 9-0
Western State South: West Los Angeles wins title at 6-0