Category Archives: boys basketball
CIF Hoops Open Division Projections
Heading into the championship games of some sections and the semifinals of a few others, here’s how the teams stack up this week for both of the boys and girls Open Divisions for Northern and Southern California. On Saturday night late, late after all section finals are complete, we’ll issue one more Open Division projection...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Believe it or not, but one of our boys honorees this week is a freshman who nailed 10 straight 3-pointers in one game. Meet Jalen Patterson from Liberty Ranch High in Galt. Our other selections this week come from Carlsbad, Los Angeles and Redding. We hope you enjoy this free story on Cal-Hi Sports.com. For […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Rankings
We finally have a week where there is a big shakeup in our boys basketball rankings following memorable CIFSS Open Division semifinal games. We have a new No. 1 team — and its actually the team we had in that position to begin the season back in early November. Read on to see the new...
State Hoop History’s Huge Crowds
After the two CIF Southern Section Open Division semifinals played on Friday at USC’s Galen Center attracted a sellout crowd of more than 10,000, we thought it was a good time to go through a recollection of what we believe are the biggest crowds to have watched high school basketball in state history. We hope […]
Boys BB: Updated ’19 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a look at the state’s top college prospects in the sophomore (2019) class since we last updated our player rankings in October. There is an abundance of quality guards in the Top 10 and eight newcomers. Our final 2016-17 rankings for the 2019 class will...
Boys BB Open/Regional Projections
We pick which eight teams in both Southern California and Northern California to us seem headed toward this year’s Open Division. We then go through each division both north and south to see if it’s possible to point toward certain teams as leading state title contenders. The group includes one team that is unbeaten at […]
Boys BB: Updated ’18 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a look at the state’s top college prospects in the junior (2018) class since we last updated our player rankings in late September. Our winter 2018 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows 12 newcomers, including another talented big man who moved from out of state...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Career totals help get two from San Jose to sweep this week’s honors from the north while from the south it is a good week to introduce the statewide audience to D.J. Rodman, sophomore son of five-time NBA champion Dennis Rodman. Our other South honoree is from El Cajon. We hope you enjoy this free […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Rankings
Long Beach Poly is this week’s only newcomer and goes in at No. 14 after upset win over previous No. 7 in CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs. By Friday, if no upsets, it should be No. 1 Sierra Canyon vs. No. 3 Bishop Montomgery and No. 2 Chino Hills vs. No. 4 Mater Dei...
Boys BB: Updated ’17 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a look at the state’s top college prospects in the senior (2017) class since we last updated our player rankings in September. Our winter Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows nine newcomers from our post-summer edition. Our final rankings for the 2017 class will be...
