Author Archives: Ronnie Flores
BB: Scholastic Live Period In SoCal
The June Scholastic Live Period for high school basketball sanctioned through the CIF and NFHS in 2025 will be hosted in Southern California after the 2024 live period event was hosted in Northern California. Boys California Live ‘25 for high school basketball will be held June 27-29, 2025 at the Ladera Sports Center (also known […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
Individual standouts such as Tounde Yessoufou (St. Joseph) and Alijah Arenas (Chatsworth) have been getting most of the attention for their scoring exploits, but this week the focus will return to team results as the post-season comes into focus. The Trinity and Mission League results in the CIF Southern Section affect this week’s State Top...
L.A. City Updates: Arenas Sets Mark
This week, the state career scoring record fell. Last week, the CIF L.A. City Section career record was surpassed by a player who probably would have surpassed this week’s total next season if not for a reclassification. TO SEE UPDATED ALL-TIME STATE CAREER SCORING LIST AFTER THIS WEEK’S GAMES (GOLD CLUB), CLICK HERE. FOR WRITEUP […]
Boys BB: Introducing 2028 Class
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a first look at the state’s top ninth-graders. The freshman (2028) class has an excellent talent level and some are already making an impact on state ranked clubs, but it’s still too early to tell how it will stack up to the terrific 2025 and 2026...
NEW Top 65 Class of ’27 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 (2027) is a class with good size and is coming along nicely. We expand our 2027 rankings from 25 to 65 for this installment with 13 newcomers to the original 25...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’26 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 2025 Hot 100 for seniors and now we take a look at the Hot 100 juniors (2026), which has the best crop of players at the top since at...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
After all the MLK Monday games are done, and the last one finished at approximately 10:15 pm, there is a new No. 1 in this week’s State TOP 30 boys basketball rankings as two-time defending CIF open champ Harvard-Westlake takes over the top spot. Read our award-winning rankings to see why the Wolverines replace season-long...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’25 Player Ranks
We continue our boys basketball coverage for the 2024-25 school year for Gold Club VIPs with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class, beginning with seniors (2025). Our Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 has plenty of change and a whopping 22 newcomers since our last update to close out 2023-24, including three...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
We do this week’s State Top 30 boys basketball rankings thinking about all those affected by the devastating SoCal wildfires. A handful of games were canceled and some won’t be played this week, but a vast majority of SoCal teams play on. Mater Dei of Santa Ana is back in the Top 20 after one...
