Author Archives: Harold Abend
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It turned out to be the perfect week to do Oak Park’s Riley Battin for this feature since he only needs two rebounds in Friday’s game to reach 1,500 for his career and thus join a very select group of just three others in all of California prep history to have more than 2,500 points […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
The action doesn’t start until this Saturday but CIF Southern Section Open Division seedings were released last Friday and it’s hard to argue that it’s not the best basketball playoff bracket in the nation. While those seedings always seem to be a little different than our rankings they’re close. If you look at their criteria,...
Hearlihy Wins Add Up: More Than 700
It’s been a strong season so far at Harvard-Westlake with a top four state ranking and on Thursday the Wolverines capped a perfect run through the super-tough Mission League. They’ll now head to the CIF Southern Section Open Division as a co-favorite with Windward of Los Angeles and they’ll do it with a head coach […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Tulare High in the CIF Central Section has another record-breaker this winter after Kazmeir Allen lit up Friday nights during the football season. Now it’s Kiara Brown of the girls basketball team, who had 46 points and 30 rebounds for one game last week. In addition to Brown as our NorCal Girls POW, our other […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
The race for a CIF Open Division state title will enter the section playoffs phase shortly, and in fact next week in the CIF Southern Section. The race for Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year continues as well, and not surprisingly the top three candidates are on the top three teams. A slight shake-up...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
There were no newcomers this week and a limited amount of movement due to a lot of teams only playing one game last week or blowing out league opponents. The biggest move got the Inland Empire a little more prestige as Etiwanda becomes a top 15 team after a solid win over La Jolla Country...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Scoring 48 points in a game earlier this season at The Classic at Damien has helped Tevian Jones of Culver City get even more attention from D1 colleges and now he gets SoCal Player of Week accolades with two 30-point outings out of his last three games. Also selected this week are players from Bakersfield, […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
It was a pair of performances worth gold as Lynwood’s Carl Lewis rampaged for 110 points and continued to make himself more well known to college recruiters. We also have a girls honoree from Bakersfield with a 50-point game plus additional nods going to players from Lompoc and Hughson.
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
There were no changes in the first eight spots for this week’s rankings and the first 11 were somewhat easy to place, but after that the records get checkered and placing importance on one win over another or a stinker loss mixed in with a quality win made it a little more difficult with so...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Last week, we honored one player with a 56-point outing. This week, we’ve got a boy with 59 who also made 16 three-pointers in one game and our state leading girls scorer who had a 57-point outburst. In all, our honorees are from Modesto, Sacramento, Rancho Mirage and Chula Vista.
