Category Archives: CIF State Championships
Boys BB: State Ranks By Divisions
Heading into Saturday’s regional championships at Sleep Train Arena, The Walter Pyramid, American Canyon High and Colony High (Ontario), our No. 1 teams are Crespi of Encino (D1), J.W. North of Riverside (D2), Ayala of Chino Hills (D3), Viewpoint of Calabasas (D4) and St. Joseph Notre Dame of Alameda (D5). These rankings also were done...
Girls Stunner In CIF Open Division
State and national girls hoops No. 1 St. Mary’s of Stockton loses out on bid to repeat as CIF Open Division champions with upset loss to Pinewood of Los Altos Hills on Tuesday night. Pinewood will now try to take down another unbeaten team in Saturday’s NorCal final.
Going Inside Open Division QFs
The state’s No. 2 ranked boys basketball team and the state’s No. 3 ranked girls squad both got knocked off on Friday night in their very first CIF Open Division regional quarterfinal games. Here’s where to go for a statewide breakdown of all of the results plus leading individual performances.
CIF Picks: Head Scratcher Of The Year
Most of the boys and girls Open Division basketball pairings for Northern California and Southern California released on Sunday by the CIF made sense, but as usual there was one choice that stood out the most for its absurdity. For the eight Open Division boys teams in the north and south and how we would […]
Boys Open Division: Super 8s
After all of the Friday and Saturday section finals, here would be the eight boys basketball teams in Northern California and the eight in Southern California that we’d pick for the CIF Open Divisions. Should state and national No. 1 Chino Hills get a first-round bye in the South? For recap of Chino Hills’ win […]
Girls Open Division: Super 8s
After all of the Friday and Saturday section finals, here would be the eight girls basketball teams in Northern California and the eight in Southern California that we’d pick for the Open Divisions. The first five positions in the North and first two in the South should be easy, but even No. 3 in the […]
Girls BB Rankings By Divisions
As the section playoffs reach critical stages this week and teams stamp their tickets for the upcoming NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs, here’s a breakdown of how certain teams stack up in projected CIF state divisions. We also project which eight teams in the North and which eight teams in the South are on track...
After No. 1 beats No. 2, what’s next?
It wasn’t the typical high-scoring hijinks seen for games so far involving state and national No. 1 Chino Hills, but the play of its two freshmen starters may have been the difference in a 71-67 triumph vs. state No. 2 Bishop Montgomery of Torrance in Saturday night’s Fairfax State Preview. The Knights may get two […]
Senior-laden DLS State Team of Year
The only blemish was a strange loss in the season opener almost in the middle of the night (due to weather delays) in Texas, but in the end it’s another top finish for the nation’s all-time best football program. How should the Spartans be handled coming into next season, however, with only two returning starters?
Saturday Bowls: DLS Back-To-Back
After CIF state bowl wins by Narbonne in D1A and Central Catholic in Small Schools Open Division, De La Salle of Concord beats Centennial of Corona 28-21 to win its sixth CIF state title in seven years, second in a row and denies Huskies a shot at one mythical national title.
