Author Archives: Harold Abend
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
Scrambling to get state rankings done after the MLK weekend has always been a challenge, and in fact there were a slew of games on MLK Day on Monday that were impactful. The CIF Southern Section did pick up a couple of teams by snagging this week’s two of this week’s newcomers, both from Los...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
League play is either starting this week or in full swing around the state but the top teams still have some showcase games left. Some have questioned why there are not more teams from the CIF Southern Section in the rankings and so many from Northern California. The answer is competitive equity. The CIFSS teams...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Our stops this week are in Hanford and Brentwood in Northern California, and Temecula and Ventura in Southern California. The two boys’ honorees also have rhyming last names, but by pointing that out we hope they don’t care. For the girls, we have a UCLA-bound senior and a freshman who obviously hopes to get similar […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
This second set of regular season rankings takes us through the holidays and the major tournaments before league action begins. There was no change in the first eight spots but after that we had some pretty significant movement with only one team out of the next 15 holding onto the same spot they held in...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
These first rankings since the preseason rankings that were done just under a month ago have lots of changes now that some teams have played as many as 12 games heading into the Nike TOC and West Coast Jamboree and other upcoming tournaments during the holiday season. One thing that hasn’t changed is the top...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
With football behind us, we turn more to hoops and kick off our first week of boys and girls NorCal and SoCal basketball Players of the Week with stops in Elk Grove and Piedmont in Northern California, and Calabasas and Rialto in Southern California. Like all the other Player of the Week features in all […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
During the regular season we had in the range of 500 games to choose from for these honors but once the playoffs started the funnel narrows as the field is basically halved each week until this final week of honoring football players when we only had 26 games in the whole state. Despite that fact, […]
