Boys' basketball: Preseason rankings

Boys’ basketball: Preseason rankings

Staff Writer

Nov. 29, 2009 6:12 PM PT

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1. Westchester

2. Taft

3. Mater Dei

4. Corona Centennial

5. Harvard-Westlake

6. Loyola

7. Gardena Serra

8. Long Beach Poly

9. Eisenhower

10. Fairfax

11. Leuzinger

12. Orange Lutheran

13. Ocean View

14. Thousand Oaks

15. Simi Valley

16. Santa Monica

17. Crenshaw

18. Price

19. Pacific Hills

20. Etiwanda

21. King

22. Rancho Verde

23. Los Osos

24. Cleveland

25. Redondo

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.