Category Archives: CIF State Championships
Girls BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the 2020 Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for girls basketball. These are the ones for each CIF division, although we do combine the Open and Division I. This is a group that includes a former NFL running back plus two coaches who have both been educators and have had […]
Spring events/games cancelled by CIF
As some school districts throughout the state already were extending closures due to the current COVID-19 health crisis to the end of the school year, the CIF did the expected on Friday and has cancelled all spring sports state championships, including the longest-running CIF state title event in track and field. CIF section spring sports […]
State Coach of Year: Dave Rebibo
In a season that wasn’t complete due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more coaches than ever were able to win their last game but more coaches than ever were also unsatisfied with how the season ended for their seniors. One boys basketball coach who didn’t win his last game of the season, but came away more […]
Boys BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the Year for boys basketball for the 2019-20 season. We have one selected for each CIF division despite not being able to finish the season with state championships. We almost always honor the overall State Coach of the Year from a school that was in […]
Girls BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
Go through this post for the final rankings for every CIF state division for the 2020 season. Declaring co-champions for each of the cancelled state finals could still be done by the CIF, but we will continue to not have ties in any of our state rankings. With respect to the teams that may have...
Boys BB State Team of Year 2020
It’s a third consecutive State Team of the Year finish for Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth, but because of the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic, the Trailblazers are the first boys basketball State Team of the Year to not officially win a CIF state title since L.A. Westchester in 2004. Sierra Canyon understands the ramifications of the situation […]
Girls BB State Team of Year 2020
With no final state championship as a crowning moment, we revert back to the entirety of the season to name the 2020 State Team of the Year for girls basketball and for only the fourth time ever it goes to a school from the CIF San Diego Section. We have State Teams of the Year […]
Salute to Saturday CIF Finalists
There were 11 teams that for sure were supposed to have played on Saturday at the Golden 1 Center in the CIF state basketball championships. There also was a 12th that would have played as NorCal Open Division champion (but that title game wasn’t played either). As a salute to the teams and players we […]
Salute to Friday CIF Finalists
These 12 teams were supposed to have played on Friday at the Golden 1 Center in the CIF state basketball championships. As a salute to the teams and players we won’t get to see due to the event’s cancellation (we have gone to every CIF state championship since the event began in 1981), here is […]