Category Archives: boys basketball
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
There was a window of time that opened up on Monday for us to get done with this week’s honorees and it has been done. This also is to ensure that each winner can enjoy perhaps 24 hours as player of the week before locking in on a Tuesday section playoff game. Our stops this […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State TOP 25, there is some movement and one newcomer, as only one higher seed in the loaded CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs lost at home. The losers in the CIFSS open pool play games don’t really drop as those would be regional level games for teams from...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State Top 25 there are four newcomers, three from NorCal previously ranked, plus one SoCal squad entering for the first time this season that is slowly putting together a terrific resume. The rankings are dominated at top by the eight entrants to the CIF Southern Section Open Division, but...
Boys BB: Introducing 2026 Class
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a first look at the state’s top ninth-graders. The freshman (2026) class has 10 elite talents who are already making a huge impact and at least 15 who track as high major prospects. Some in the group are already mature and it’s important to keep that...
NEW Top 65 Class of ’25 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 (2025) has an excellent crop at the top, and could be one of the stronger classes so far this decade. We expand our 2025 rankings from 25 to 65 for this installment...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. And this week there were milestones galore, especially from just Tuesday night of this week when we had girls scoring 61 and 60 points in a game plus a freshman boy with 60. Last week on the same night we...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
We still have a couple of weeks left before these selections get a lot more complicated because we don’t want to honor a player with a Tuesday playoff game in which their season may be ending. There were no state record book totals this week but we found some real gems in both Southern and […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State TOP 25 there are two newcomers for the second straight week from two of the state’s best leagues in JSerra of San Juan Capistrano and Dublin. The real questions are how do you balance league standings with recent results and take into account the injuries of Dougherty Valley’s...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’24 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 2023 Hot 100 for seniors and now we take a look at the Hot 100 juniors (2024). Our Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 for this class expands from a Top 65...
