Author Archives: Ronnie Flores
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
We’ve hit a week where we actually have major changes because of what transpired in playoff games around the state, as Harvard-Westlake of Studio City took down previous state No. 2 Sierra Canyon in their final pool play game to advance to the CIFSS Open Division championship versus No. 1 Centennial. Other big upward movers...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
There is some movement this week in the updated boys basketball Top 25 state rankings, as the eight teams and matchups for the upcoming CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs have been announced. Check out the rankings to see one highly-ranked team that didn’t make the field. There’s one more week left in the regular...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The big games at the Nike Extravaganza caused some change among the middle of the pack teams in this week’s updated State Top 25 rankings. Corona Centennial strengthens its grip on No. 1, while newcomer Village Christian (Sun Valley) has a big game right away on Monday, as does Baseline League powers Damien and Etiwanda....
Boys BB: Introducing 2025 Class
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a first look at the state’s top ninth-graders. The freshman (2025) class has three elite talents on the perimeter who are already making an impact on quality teams. Some in the group are already mature and it’s important to keep that in mind when projecting future success,...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
There were some terrific matchups last week, but the only changes are at the bottom of this week’s boys basketball State Top 25 rankings as the post-season nears. A couple of close games could have altered the rankings significantly if the underdogs pulled out victories, but in most instances the higher ranked teams won. Newcomers...
NEW Top 65 Class of ’24 Player Ranks
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. The sophomore class (2024) has excellent guards at the top, and it looks like there will be some quality depth down the line. We expand our 2024 rankings from 25 to 65 with six newcomers...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
This is a special edition of the boys basketball Top 25 state rankings not only because it includes Monday MLK results, but also includes two weeks of results. We didn’t update our rankings last week because of all the COVID-19 related postponements and cancellations and there are still a handful of ranked teams that have...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’23 Player Ranks
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs rolls on with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. We just published our 2022 Hot 100 for seniors and now we take a look at the Hot 100 juniors (2023). Our Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 for this class expands from a Top 65...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’22 Player Ranks
We continue our boys basketball coverage for the 2021-22 school year for Gold Club VIPs with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class, beginning with seniors (2022). Our Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 has plenty of changes since our last update to close out 2020-21 and we’ll come back and publish our...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
After studying all the results of the holiday tournaments, there are two newcomers to the first boys basketball State Top 25 rankings of 2022. The difficult part is not identifying the top teams, but making sense of which teams were not at full strength against key foes or had to drop out of holiday tournaments...
