Category Archives: boys basketball
Boys BB: CIF Saturday Finals
In a year with a lot of individual players in the state getting major media attention, Harvard-Westlake of Studio City proved what a great team can do as it wins the CIF Open Division state title. The Wolverines defeated St. Joseph of Santa Maria in a game that the Knights kept within 10 points for […]
Boys & Girls BB: CIF Friday Finals
On the first day and night of the CIF state championships at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, there were no games that were decided in the final minutes. Favored teams Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (boys) and Oakland Tech (girls) completed their tasks with the Tech girls also making history with their fifth state title […]
CIF State Basketball Picks & Previews
As is another custom of ours going back more than 30 years, here are the predicted scores, what to watch for and more for each of the 12 CIF boys and girls basketball state title games this weekend in Sacramento. This is done with the best of wishes for all 24 teams, but the goal […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
When it’s all said and done after pouring over the results of the regional brackets from Saturday, it looks like regardless of what teams advance to this weekend’s CIF state championships, the South will be favorites in Open, D1 and D2, especially if this week’s new boys basketball State TOP 25 is any indication. All...
NEW Boys BB Division State Ranks
Here’s the second of three divisional state rankings for the 2022-23 season. It’s after the Saturday night CIF regional semifinals but before the regional finals. The third of the divisional rankings will be the final ones done (expanded in each division) after next weekend’s CIF state championships in Sacramento. No. 1 teams after Saturday are...
Boys BB All-State Nominations (Part 1)
It’s only a few weeks after we got wrapped up with all of the all-state teams in football, but now it’s time to start the process toward selecting the 44th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams in boys basketball. This is the first list of nominees based on all of our sources, but there will be […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. Baseball & softball takes up more spots for this week’s honor roll. There’s also still plenty of outstanding boys and girls basketball players wrapping up their seasons as they work towards next week’s CIF state championships. Go inside as well...
Boys BB: State Ranks By Divisions
Yes, we will once again have final divisional state rankings this season, but we can’t get them started until the CIF does its divisional placements and then there’s not enough time to get them done until the first round of the regional playoffs begin. No. 1 teams at this point of the sprint to the […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
This will be the final foursome for basketball for this season as all of the Tuesday playoff games makes it difficult to get these done in a timely fashion. We’ll be switching to baseball and softball next week. For this group, we hit Marin County and Placer County for the two NorCal honorees while for […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State TOP 25, it’s regional playoff time as we further break down the Open Division and D1 brackets. D1 is stronger than normal since there are only five teams in both the North and South open brackets, but some of the seeds are a bit perplexing. St. John Bosco...
