Category Archives: CIF State Championships
CIF Regional Playoff Picks (Girls)
After all of Saturday’s CIF section basketball championships are in the books throughout the state, we break down the teams that should be chosen on Sunday for the regional playoffs.
Friday Section Final Breakdowns
Two players get to the line with less than one second left in both the CCS Open Division and NCS D1 boys title games with vastly different results. Sacred Heart Cathedral girls also cap off wild-and-wacky ride to CCS Open Division crown.
NEW Boys BB Division State Ranks
Here are the updated pecking orders heading into all of the various CIF section title games. After Saturday night, check our site for a special State Top 20 overall ranking (requested by the CIF for Sunday’s seeding meetings) plus projected No. 1 and No. 2 seeds for each CIF division. Note: If you aren’t a...
NEW Girls BB Division State Ranks
Here are the updated pecking orders heading into all of the various CIF section title games. After Saturday night, check our site for a special State Top 20 overall ranking (requested by the CIF for Sunday’s seeding meetings) plus projected No. 1 and No. 2 seeds for each CIF division. Note: If you aren’t a...
Select Section Finals Picks (Girls)
On the eve of California’s numerous CIF section championship games in girls basketball, we pick one key game from each of the biggest sections and then predict a final score. If anyone wants to watch these games, many also are available on the NFHS Network and for Cal-Hi Sports users only we are continuing to […]
Select Section Finals Picks (Boys)
On the eve of California’s numerous CIF section championship games in boys basketball, we pick one key game from each of the biggest sections and then predict a final score. If anyone wants to watch these games, many also are available on the NFHS Network and for Cal-Hi Sports users only we are continuing to […]
Coaches Speak: More CIF Bowl Games
In a non-scientific survey of top football coaches from around the state who responded to a questionnaire we sent out last week, there appears to be a majority of them who are not supportive of that many teams potentially playing 16-game schedules.
Sac-Joaquin All-Time FB Top 10
This is a ranking of the 10 greatest teams in section history with the key word of this criteria being “greatest” and not “best.” This year’s Folsom team was indeed great, but not quite as great as a team actually from the same school district. Go inside this post as well for details on our […]
More State Football Players of the Year
Check inside this post for the honorees who have been chosen among juniors, sophomores, medium schools and small schools. One league in the Bay Area has nabbed two of these four player of the year selections.
Final Five-Division State FB Rankings
Sacred Heart Prep gets a mythical state crown by finishing No. 1 in the traditional Cal-Hi Sports five-division state rankings format in Division IV. Central Catholic also is D4 in this format so the D5 winner is St. Margaret’s of SJ Capistrano.