Category Archives: boys basketball
Mr. Basketball 2025: Brayden Burries
There was plenty of competition, but it’s not a surprising choice for Mr. Basketball, as Brayden Burries’ accomplishments for CIF Open Division state champ Eastvale Roosevelt were incredible and deserve individual recognition. Today, one of the nation’s best guards headed to Arizona is awarded California’s most prestigious, long-running individual honor. For this season’s State Players […]
Boys BB: More State Players of the Year
Congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports 2025 top honorees for juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division with Open & D1 combined. The CIF Southern Section captures all four of the class-by-class honors, but only has one winner for the CIF divisions....
2025 Boys/Girls BB Coach Milestones
Both of the boys and girls all-time state coaching records lists have now been updated for everyone through the 2024-25 season. Bishop Montgomery’s Doug Mitchell earned his 800th career win early in the season and we had two more reach 500. For the girls, Oak Ridge’s Steve White won the 700th game of his career […]
Top 15 Final Four Greats from California
There hasn’t been a Final Four Most Outstanding Player since 1997 and there isn’t going to be one this weekend either with Duke, Florida, Houston and Auburn in it. Obviously with the dominance in the past of teams from UCLA, USF and with California players who’ve shined at other places, however, there is still a...
State Coach of Year: Andre Chevalier
For leading his program to its first CIF state championship post-COVID with a unit that wasn’t expected to be there in the preseason, Andre Chevalier of Chatsworth Sierra Canyon has been named the 2025 State Coach of the Year in boys basketball. His third CIF state title didn’t come at the open level, but the […]
FINAL Boys BB State TOP 40 Rankings
As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State TOP 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2024-25 season. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 30 update, as Stockton Lincoln’s performance in the CIF D1 state title game against No. 7 Sierra Canyon causes NorCal teams to jump...
Boys BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
All of the CIF state champions crowned last weekend in Sacramento are in the final No. 1 positions, but the runner-up is often not always going to be placed at No. 2. More adjustments also are made with teams from NorCal or SoCal going up or going down depending on what happened in the various...
Boys/Girls BB State Teams of Year 2025
We’re doing a combo post for the final State Teams of the Year honors since both teams — Roosevelt of Eastvale boys and Etiwanda girls — are from the Inland Empire and are only about 16 miles apart. It’s not the first time that the Inland Empire has swept the two big final No. 1 […]
CIF Saturday Boys BB State Finals
Behind a performance for the ages from senior Brayden Burries, Roosevelt of Eastvale wins its first CIF Open Division state title on Saturday night in Sacramento over Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco. It’s also the third for the Inland Empire in the last six years and keeps Northern California winless in the Open Division since […]
Friday CIF State Finals
Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth boys make the plays in the final 90 seconds of the Division I championship game to turn back Lincoln of Stockton to win school’s fourth CIF state title. Carondelet of Concord girls win their second state title with a similar win in their D1 state final. Others claiming state crowns at […]
