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Boys BB: Bishop Montgomery wins

After CIF San Diego Open Division champion St. Augustine of San Diego got off to a slow start, it played Southern California’s top-ranked team from Bishop Montgomery of Torrance fairly evenly. The Saints, however, couldn’t overcome their start and lost 75-61 to the Knights on Friday night in the first round of the CIF Southern […]

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New State 20 Boys BB (Expanded)

This week’s rankings get an F, but that’s because of Foothills Christian and Folsom being newcomers and doesn’t reflect on anything else. First five is now Bishop O’Dowd followed by Bishop Montgomery, Etiwanda, Mater Dei and Fairfax. If you are not a Gold Club member and cannot see this post, please consider signing up today....

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Boys BB: Flores CIF pairings reaction

Here’s what our main California boys basketball analyst and managing editor Ronnie Flores thinks about the CIF Open Division pairings (both north & south) that were announced on Sunday:

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Boys, Girls BB State Rank Updates

With all the CIF section championship games now complete, we update our State Top 20 rankings of California’s elite boys and girls basketball teams this week on the eve of the bracket release for the NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs. San Diego Section D2 champ Foothills Christian of El Cajon and Sac Joaquin Section D1 […]

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Montgomery takes CIFSS Open Title

Bishop Montgomery of Torrance wins the coveted CIFSS Open Division title over Etiwanda with a big second half. With the victory, the Knights will move to No. 2 in the state behind NCS D3 winner and season-long No. 1 Bishop O’Dowd of Oakland in the new Cal-Hi Sports State Top 20. The big question is […]

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1st Section Title For Maranatha

Maranatha of Pasadena wins its first boys basketball CIF Southern Section title in school history with a 59-53 victory over Campbell Hall of North Hollywood in 4A title game. Star guards for both teams score 25 points, but it’s the Minutemen role players who come up big.

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CIFSS Open: Etiwanda-Montgomery Final

State No. 5 Etiwanda exorcises playoff demons at Mater Dei’s Meruelo Athletic Center and downs the state’s No. 2 team on Tuesday night to advance to Saturday night’s CIFSS Open Division championship game versus state No. 3 Bishop Montgomery.

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New State 20 Boys BB (Expanded)

No new teams broken down this week, but lots of shuffling thanks to big wins by Etiwanda, Orange Lutheran and Redondo. Every team in this post gets written up, we have added more images than ever before and this is where you can see a list of bubble teams. If you are not a Gold...

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New State 20 Boys BB (Expanded)

Here’s more on every change made after the first set of games for the CIFSS Open Division. Every team in this post gets broken down, we have added more images than ever before and this is where you can see a list of bubble teams. If you are not a Gold Club member and cannot...

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CIFSS Open Division Bracket Challenge

Since we’ve been evaluating the teams in the loaded CIFSS Open Division bracket all season long and have seen all 16 teams on more than one occasion, we decided to have some fun and take a stab at predicting the winners of the 15 CIFSS Open Division championship bracket games before the competition kicks off […]

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