The Mountain View boys basketball team hasn’t been given any favors in its quest to repeat as state champions.
The Toros were the No. 2 seed in the Division I, Section III boys tournament last week, but a scheduling quirk put them in No. 7 seed Desert Mountain’s gym in an eventual first round loss.
The early defeat, coupled with an alleged power points flaw, dropped Mountain View all the way to No. 12 in the state tournament bracket and took away a first-round bye.
The Toros began the state tournament on Thursday, …

Before the football season began, I wrote a column advocating the use of a selection committee to seed the brackets. It’s become an even bigger issue now because of an alleged power point flaw which has left as many as nine teams out of the basketball postseason. If I were a member of a selection committee this season, this is how I would have seeded the Division I boys basketball tournament compared to how it turned out:
Current Division I seeding
1. Corona del Sol
2. Pinnacle
3. Red Mountain
4. Gilbert
5. Desert Vista
6. Cesar …