Category Archives: boys basketball
Boys BB: Saluting Section Champions
State No. 1 team Centennial of Corona wins on a dunk at the buzzer in CIF Southern Section Open Division championship. We also have roundups of other games at the Honda Center in Anaheim and from the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. Every section champion also deserves to get a mention so that’s what this […]
BB: CA Joins Scholastic Live Period
The NCAA instituted the June Scholastic Live Period for high school basketball in 2019 and for the first time ever there will be a live period event sanctioned through the CIF and NFHS. Boys California Live ‘23 for high school basketball will be held June 16-18, 2023 at high schools in Orange County off the 55 […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. The big news is Chloe Briggs of Ontario Christian moving to No. 3 on the all-time career scoring list for the girls. It’s the player she passed and the section record she broke, however, that carries the most weight. For...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Two of our goals in all of our Player of the Week features in all sports, girls and boys, are twofold. First, we use it to track potential entries in the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and the other is to find hidden talent that might not get any props other than outside their local […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State TOP 25 rankings, there is a state No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown for the CIF Southern Section Open Division title as St. John Bosco moves up for its highest ranking in boys hoops ever and gets its crack at top-rated Centennial. The Huskies haven’t lost in-state since...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We skipped last week to get out Super Bowl alums, final all-state football teams and preseason state baseball rankings. That’s why this week’s edition has more stat stars than usual. For boys hoops, we have just the second freshmen ever...
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...
