Author Archives: Ronnie Flores
Boys BB: Final ’23 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a final look this school year at the state’s top college prospects in the junior (2023) class. Our 2023 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows 10 newcomers and plenty of movement in the Top 25. Our final 2021-22 rankings for the 2024 and 2025 classes will...
Boys BB: Final ’22 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a final look at the state’s top college prospects in the senior (2022) class. Our final 2022 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows many changes and seven newcomers. This will be the final position for these players since we first saw many of them as...
All-State Boys BB: Best of the Best 2022
Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year Donovan Dent plus State Junior of the Year Jared McCain of CIF Open Division state champion Corona Centennial and NorCal Player of the Year Aidan Mahaney of Moraga Campolindo headline the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state boys basketball teams. Go inside to see why these 10 have finished […]
Mr. Basketball 2022: Making A Dent
There were many excellent candidates for the state’s top boys basketball honor, but in the end the catalyst for the state’s best team gets the nod and it’s Corona Centennial’s Donovan Dent. Today, the senior guard is named California Mr. Basketball by Cal-Hi Sports, becoming the first honoree from Riverside County since a future NBA […]
Boys BB: More State Players of the Year
Here’s where to go to see the Cal-Hi Sports 2022 honorees for seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division. As mentioned in the Mr. Basketball writeup, Corona Centennial junior guard Jared McCain was a state player of the year according to a different criteria, but for juniors it’s plain and simple and […]
State Coach of the Year: Mike LeDuc
In a special basketball season that saw the veteran coach win his 1,000th career game and capture his first CIF state title, the long-time La Verne Damien mentor earns the state’s highest coaching honor. Today, the state championship winning coach is honored as the 2021-22 Cal-Hi Sports State Coach of the Year. For our post […]
FINAL Boys BB State TOP 40 (Part 2)
Another factor for these final rankings is that a few selected CIF Southern Section teams have to go up because of the nature of their playoff formats. For our analysis and writeups on all 40 teams, plus a look at comparisons to our preseason rankings, check out the rankings that have been around twice as...
Boys BB: CIF Saturday Finals
Corona Centennial completes epic season that began with a decision last June to win its first CIF Open Division state title. It wasn’t as easy as winning section & regional playoff games at home, however, as Huskies had to get past a Modesto Christian squad that had it tied twice late in the fourth quarter. […]
