Category Archives: boys basketball
Boys BB: All-Time Regional POYs
As the CIF regional playoffs reach the semifinal round in all divisions on Saturday night, here’s a look back at the NorCal and SoCal regional players of the year, as selected last April by Cal-Hi Sports. One of the 2018 honorees, Onyeka Okongwu of Chino Hills for SoCal, is still tearing in up for the […]
State Rankings By CIF Divisions
We can’t do divisional state basketball rankings anymore during the regular season because there’s no way to know (thanks to competitive equity seeding) which divisions to place any of these teams. Now that brackets are out, though, we can apply our own rankings system to the teams in both the NorCal and SoCal playoffs and […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Rankings
Congrats to all the section champions and those looking to bounce back in the regional as California has reached its “win or go home” portion of the season. As the regional playoffs kick off, our Top 5 remain the same, since our rankings do not always match the NorCal and SoCal regional seedings. There’s one...
Boys BB: CIFSS & SJS Titles Won
Leading champions in CIF Southern Section championship games played at Cal Baptist University in Riverside and CIF Sac-Joaquin Section championship games played at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento were the two teams that played each other last year in the CIF Open Division state final. Bishop Montgomery of Torrance, the No. 8 seed in […]
Boys BB: Updated ’21 Player Ranks
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a look at the state’s top college prospects in the sophomore (2021) class since we last updated our player rankings in October. The top-shelf point guards are beginning to emerge in a class that is led by a duo from the same high school....
Boys BB: Updated ’20 Player Ranks
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a look at the state’s top college prospects in the junior (2020) class since we last updated our player rankings in October. Our winter 2020 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows 14 newcomers, including a big man from the state’s top overall league who is...
Boys BB: Updated ’19 Player Ranks
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a look at the state’s top college prospects in the senior (2019) class since we last updated our player rankings in October. Our winter Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows 13 newcomers from our post-summer edition. Our final rankings for the 2018 class will be...
CIF Open Division Projections
With CIF section boys and girls basketball championships set to tip off on Friday and continuing through Saturday night, we have the breakdowns over which teams seem to be best in line to be placed in this year’s CIF Northern California and Southern California eight-team Open Division brackets. Those will be announced on Sunday and […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Two of those we’re profiling this week for top performances from last week on the hardwood have experience playing for a CIF state championship team. Another of them hopes to get there in the Open Division while another of them could be one of the top ninth-graders in the nation. We hope you enjoy this […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Rankings
No. 1 ranked Salesian of Richmond continues to roll, and Sierra Canyon and Bishop Montgomery survived pool play to advance to the CIF Southern Section Open Division title game on Saturday. Does Bishop Montgomery now deserve to be ranked ahead of Rancho Christian? Three newcomers go in as the most in-depth boys basketball rankings across...
