Category Archives: CIF State Championships
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
The CIF stayed true to its message about competitive equity when it released its boys basketball state regional pairings with the state’s top teams in both NorCal and SoCal receiving byes. This model also created a situation where all of the six participants in the SoCal open division are from the massive CIF Southern Section,...
Boys/Girls BB Pairings Reactions
There is some shock in the basketball community with all of the first-round byes for the Open Divisions, but with the way the results came in for the entire season so far and with the rise of competitive equity as an overriding factor in the seedings for all CIF playoff sports, it was a direction […]
NorCal/SoCal Open Div. Breakdowns
After all of this weekend’s CIF section championships in basketball are complete, the CIF will meet on Sunday morning to finalize its pairings for this year’s state playoffs. The biggest questions always surround which teams will be in the Open Division and which ones should get a first-round bye. We have both boys and girls...
CIF Open Division History Tour
It began with a famous (or infamous depending on point of view) football vote in 2008, but the CIF Open Division format has evolved over the years to the current inclination for there to be more byes for both the Southern California and Northern California regional playoffs. We’ll wait until Sunday to see how that […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
While the teams in the CIF Southern Section Open Division were beating each other in what is arguably the toughest non-state championship playoff bracket in the nation, we still have to find out if the favorites will prevail in the new CIF North Coast Section Open Division. State top-ranked La Jolla Country Day still looks...
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
This is section championship week around the state, as seeds and brackets will be announced for the NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs next Sunday. The big question will be how many teams from the CIF Southern Section are taken for the SoCal open because that will ultimately affect favorites for the CIF D1 state crown...
All-State FB 2019: 1st Team Offense
It’s finally time to get to the absolute headliners for the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. Go inside this post for writeups of the 11 players on offense plus a kicker and three of six multi-purpose players who have been selected First Team Overall. This is the group that is being honored regardless […]
All-State FB 2019: Medium Schools
Just one day after the small schools teams were done, here’s the best players from schools that we consider medium schools. The one of two schools that landed three on first team didn’t win a CIF state title, but did have to move up and play in the CIF Division 1-A bracket. Pacifica of Oxnard […]
All-State FB 2019: Small Schools
League rivals Ripon and Escalon both won CIF state titles and in the highest divisions for small schools this season. It shouldn’t be a surprise then that the Indians and Cougars both lead the way with four honorees for this year’s Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams for schools in our small schools classification. These teams also […]
