{"id":363248,"date":"2024-01-27T17:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=363248"},"modified":"2024-01-27T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T19:01:46","slug":"sierra-canyon-comes-back-from-17-point-deficit-to-beat-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=363248","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Canyon comes back from 17-point deficit to beat Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A battle of a pair of 2023-24 California high school basketball titans in front of an audience with celebrities lived up to its billing with a 17-point comeback by <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/usa-today-high-school-sports-super-25-boys-basketball-rankings-week-of-jan-22-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No. 20 Sierra Canyon<\/a> (Chatsworth, Calif.) to hand <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/usa-today-high-school-sports-super-25-boys-basketball-rankings-week-of-jan-22-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No. 19 Notre Dame<\/a> (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) its first loss of the season 81-75.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Notre Dame Knights, who entered the game with a 24-0 record, took a commanding 66-49 lead into the fourth quarter. Sierra Canyon launched a full-court press that turned defensive into offense, primarily from three-star forwards Bryce Cofield and Isaiah Elohim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Trailblazers forced 10 turnovers over the final six minutes of the game, according to the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2024\/01\/26\/sierra-canyon-boys-basketball-knocks-off-notre-dame-with-epic-rally-in-fourth-quarter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Los Angeles Daily News<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, as they chipped away at the lead. Cofield and Elohim combined for 21 points in the quarter, and Cofield gave Sierra Canyon the lead with a little over a minute left in the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Cofield finished with 14 points and Elohim with 18, per the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/highschool\/story\/2024-01-26\/sierra-canyon-sherman-oaks-notre-dame-recap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Justin Pippen, a three-star guard on the 247Sports Composite, led the team with 19 points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">For Notre Dame, four-star guard Mercy Miller led with 28 points. Lino Mark, ranked four-stars on the 247Sports Composite, scored 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Notre Dame and Sierra Canyon were battling for supremacy of the Mission League after both took down Harvard-Westlake, previously a top-5 team in the nation, a week earlier. In the stands included former Sierra Canyon player Bronny James, Justin&#8217;s dad Scottie Pippen, and Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With the win, Sierra Canyon improved its record to 24-1 and pushed Notre Dame to an identical record. With 19 wins in a row, the Trailblazers enter the Mission League Tournament as the top seed, one spot ahead of Notre Dame. Both play their next respective games on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Sierra Canyon&#8217;s full-court press and fourth-quarter offense from Bryce Cofield and Isaiah Elohim sparked a massive comeback over Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363249,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363248\/revisions\/363249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}