Category Archives: boys basketball
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (1-15)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’ll do it with our preseason boys basketball state rankings. There are three big questions heading into the 2024-25 season regarding the use of computer rankings by the CIF Southern Section, the placement of St. Joseph of Santa Maria for the regionals and whether […]
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (16-40)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we are doing it with a preseason Top 40 of the best boys teams from all across the state. This group is led by CIF San Diego Section open favorite and No. 16 Montgomery of San Diego and includes the rest of these teams […]
Boys BB Records Ready for 2024-25
All of the Cal-Hi Sports state records in boys basketball are updated and ready to go before teams begin playing games later this month to start the 2024-25 season. Here’s a recap of the new additions and a look at the career state scoring record currently held by Sacramento Sheldon’s DeMarcus Nelson. We hope you […]
2023-24 Grid-Hoop All-State Team
To continue our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year (boys and girls), we take a deep look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes on our 38th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the 15-man group is player of the year Caden Pinnick from Del […]
More 2023-24 Grid-Hoopers We Loved
In addition to the first 15 all-state grid-hoop players, here are nearly 60 others uncovered in our research that embodied the best of grid-hoop success. This honor roll includes the son of a prominent college football head coach and two brothers from a CIF state finalist football team. FOR THIS YEAR’S ALL-STATE FIRST, SECOND AND...
Boys BB: Cali Live ’24 Rundown
The 168-team Boys Cali Live ’24 June Scholastic Live Period event concluded on Sunday with first place pool finishers playing another first place finisher in a de-facto championship game. Among the 42 pools, 17 CIF teams went 4-0 during the three-day event. We now take a look at some of the standout players in various...
Salesian, Riordan impress at CaliLive
The team from Richmond that repped the north in the 2024 CIF Open Division state final and the team from San Francisco that has picked up a big recent transfer both won in their pool division final games at the huge BoysCaliLive24 scholastic event on Sunday in Roseville. We have a list of every team […]
NBA Draft: McCain Stands Tall
The 2023 Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year from Corona Centennial goes at No. 16 in the first round of the 2024 NBA Draft to the Philadelphia 76ers. There was one more from the state in the first round and there were three in the second round, with the most attention obviously on the […]
Boys BB: Cali Live ’24 This Weekend
A June Scholastic Live Period for California high school basketball was first sanctioned through the CIF and NFHS in 2023 and in 2024 it will be hosted in Northern California for the first time. Boys California Live ‘24 for high school basketball will take place this weekend, June 28-30, 2024 at the Roebbelen Center in […]