CIF Central ’16: Albano’s finals predictions, previews

Welcome to CIF Central ’16, OCVarsity’s landing page for coverage of the 2016 CIF-SS girls water polo playoffs:

Finals previews

Albano’s finals predictions

CIF finals preview notes

5 reasons to watch Div. 1 final

El Toro-Murrieta Valley – poll 2:30 p.m. Saturday

Foothill-Orange Lutheran – poll 5:30 p.m. Saturday

Saturday schedule

Semifinal previews

Westridge-Ocean View 

Riverside Poly-Mission Viejo

San Clemente-Murrieta Valley

El Toro-Los Osos 

San Marcos-Orange Lutheran – poll

Foothill-Laguna Beach – poll

Complete semifinal schedule

Wednesday sites, times for all divisions

Albano’s playoff predictions (42-9)

Wednesday’s semifinals (record: 3-3)

Saturday quarterfinals (record: 13-2)

Thursday’s four-division card (record: 10-2)

Wednesday first round (record: 13-0)

Tuesday wild-card round (record: 3-2)

Twitter Polls

Vote: Foothill-Laguna Beach

Vote: Orange Lutheran-San Marcos

Vote: Newport at Mater Dei (closed)

Vote: Huntington Beach at Santa Margarita (closed)

Roundups

Saturday quarterfinals: Laguna Beach holds off Mater Dei

Thursday: Dana Hills escapes with win at LB Wilson

Wednesday: Mater Dei opens CIF by sinking Newport

Tuesday: Santa Margarita uses patience to advance 

Score lists

Saturday quarterfinals

Wednesday’s first round

Tuesday’s wild-card round

Pairings Saturday

O.C. teams earn lofty seeds for playoffs

Division 1

Division 2

Division 3 (revised)

Division 4 (revised)

Division 5

Division 6

Division 7

CIF Playoff Previews

Computer-generated rankings coming to water polo 

League by league primer

List of O.C. automatic entries

Rankings

OCVarsity.com 2-22-16

Final CIF-SS coaches poll

OCVarsity.com 2-15-16