Category Archives: boys basketball
’19 Ballislife A-A Game Set For May 4
The 2019 Ballislife All-American Game presented by Eastbay is set for May 4 at the Long Beach Convention Center and features seven players recently named to the Cal-Hi Sports All-State team. The national high school all-star game begins at 4:15 p.m. PT/7:15 p.m. ET and is preceded by The BIL Slam Dunk Contest presented by […]
Boys BB: All-State Best of Best 2019
Two-time Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year Onyeka Okongwu of Chino Hills and NorCal Player of the Year Jalen Green of San Joaquin Memorial are headliners for the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state boys basketball teams. Go inside to see why these 10 have finished their careers as First Team Overall honorees out of […]
Boys BB: All-State 2nd, 3rd 2019
Here’s the place to see all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Teams. The second team features the third player from Sierra Canyon (Chatsworth) among the first 20, two more super talents from the Class of 2020 and […]
Boys BB: Divisional All-State 2019
It was year two of doing our traditional Cal-Hi Sports All-State Divisional Boys Basketball Teams with the CIF’s switch to competitive equity-based playoff divisions. Some of the section playoffs have changed as well, but others have been the same. These teams are based on the CIF state divisions (not sections) and in some cases we […]
Boys BB: All-State Underclass 2019
Now that players of the year and coaches of the year are done, it’s time to get started with the first announced teams for the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Teams. This is a look at the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. It will be for Gold Club members...
Boys BB All-State Nominees Part 2
After the first run-through of names on our virtual board of all-state nominees, we’ve now updated that list with this one and are getting set to choose the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams. New photos also have been added to this post from the first one. More players added and some other fixes had...
Mr. Basketball 2019: Big O Repeats
For the second consecutive season, the state’s top honor goes to Onyeka Okongwu of Chino Hills. The USC-bound center has a skill level, defensive ability, and clutch post-season performances over four years that puts him in rare company as a two-time Mr. Basketball winner. It’s all just enough to help him edge guard Cassius Stanley […]
More Boys BB State Players of Year
Here’s where to go to see the Cal-Hi Sports 2019 honorees for seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division. Unlike Mr. Basketball, there are no repeat honorees, but this time there was no senior of the year. The hardest decisions were to have to pick one of two dynamic juniors leading a […]
State Coach of Year: Jonas Honick
With a 700th win this season, with a team from a true small school (320 students) playing up in Division I and reaching the CIF NorCal championship, the time is ripe for the overall State Coach of the Year honor to go to Jonas Honick from Branson of Ross. He’s been chosen before for Division […]
Boys BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for boys basketball. We wound up going with none of these five divisional winners from teams that won CIF state titles. All five, though, had compelling reasons to be chosen and we’re sure once you read about all of them you can see […]
