Category Archives: boys basketball
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth retains its No. 1 ranking and will face Sheldon of Sacramento in the CIF Open Division state championship game on Saturday evening in Sacramento. Find out how high Sheldon moved up in this week’s State Top 20 after defeating previous No. 5 Bishop O’Dowd of Oakland in the NorCal Open Division...
Sierra Canyon, Sheldon Open-bound
With a player like Duke’s Marvin Bagley, it was supposed to be last year’s team at Sierra Canyon going to the CIF Open Division state final. The Trailblazers booked their ticket to this year’s final with a come-from-behind win over Etiwanda. In the CIF NorCal Open title game, Sheldon of Sacramento won its second regional […]
Final Fours For CIF Open Hoops Set
For the boys, new state No. 1 Sierra Canyon goes overtime for the second time in a little more than two weeks to beat No. 2 Bishop Montgomery. Etiwanda, Bishop O’Dowd and Sheldon also move on. For the girls, there won’t be a No. 1 vs. No 2 state matchup in the NorCal final as […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
Previous No. 1 and No. 2 went down and what did it create? A No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown this week in the SoCal Open semifinals between two teams that have already split games this season. All four SoCal D1 teams still alive are now ranked, but did any NorCal D1 team make it...
Boys BB: Division State Ranks (2nd)
There are no new No. 1 teams in any of our divisional rankings heading into Tuesday’s regional semifinals. Still on top are St. John Bosco (D1), Brentwood (D2), Pleasant Valley of Chico (D3), Hillcrest of Riverside (D4) and Santa Clarita Christian (D5). Highest newcomers would be Alameda (D2), Murrieta Mesa (D3) and Liberty Ranch (D4)....
Salesian & Mater Dei both stunned
The first night of the CIF Open Division boys basketball state playoffs saw both top seeds from the north and south suffer elimination upset losses. State No. 1 Salesian of Richmond lost in overtime to Folsom while state No. 2 Mater Dei of Santa Ana was tripped up by Fairfax of Los Angeles. Read on […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
It’s our final chance to write about boys and girls hoopsters for this feature, since it’s switching to baseball and softball next week. One of them was previously an all-state freshman, another was previously the State Freshman Player of the Year. The final four, so to speak, are from Chino Hills, Spring Valley, Reedley and […]
Boys BB: Division State Ranks (1st)
We have to wait for the CIF to do its state seedings before doing any divisional state rankings because no one knows what divisions many of these teams are going to be placed. After last Sunday, here’s our first ones of the season. No. 1 teams are St. John Bosco (D1), Brentwood of Los Angeles […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
The various section championships around the state brought two newcomers to this week’s State Top 20, including a San Joaquin Memorial team that didn’t know if it was going North or South for the regional brackets. With the NorCal and SoCal regional brackets released on Sunday, we see that all but two of the 16...
Winners/Losers in CIF Open Brackets
We go over each of the two boys and girls Open Division playoff brackets (both north and south) released on Sunday and present our breakdowns of which teams fared well and which teams did not. As the Open Division continues to evolve, it will be interesting to see if the CIF Southern Section will ever...
