Category Archives: girls basketball
Nike TOC wrap: LJCD falls in final
State’s No. 3 girls team can’t survive second surge vs New York’s Long Island Lutheran in the top division at nationally prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions in Arizona. Seven other State TOP 25 squads were in the tourney in different divisions and 34 overall, but the only one to win a title was young, talented […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
These first rankings since the preseason rankings that were done just under a month ago have lots of changes now that some teams have played as many as 12 games heading into the Nike TOC and West Coast Jamboree and other upcoming tournaments during the holiday season. One thing that hasn’t changed is the top...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
With football behind us, we turn more to hoops and kick off our first week of boys and girls NorCal and SoCal basketball Players of the Week with stops in Elk Grove and Piedmont in Northern California, and Calabasas and Rialto in Southern California. Like all the other Player of the Week features in all […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. Since anyone from football will have a big outing this week in a state final and every one of those will be written up separately, this feature also will switch almost all to basketball next week. Football’s best this week...
Preseason Girls BB State Ranks (1-20)
One week after our extensive boys basketball preseason state rankings, we do the same for the girls. With some teams starting in the CIF Southern Section on November 14 and some games in the CIF Central Section, adjustments to the original pecking order we planned had to be made to accommodate some of the results […]
Preseason Girls BB State Ranks (21-40)
This group of leading girls hoops teams in the state for the 2022-23 season is led off by defending CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D1 champion Oak Ridge. We also have a state champion in D2 from last season, a team with a player looking to move up big-time on the all-time career scoring list and at […]
Girls of Summer: Fresh Faces
The Girls of Summer Caravan was able to visit two events this past summer in a continuing process to update readers about California’s leading girls basketball players. This story is part two and focuses on the 16th annual Myles McGowan Coaches Classic/Fresh Faces in Oakland. The first part focused on the EOT (End of the...
Girls of Summer: End of Trail Visit
The Girls of Summer Caravan was able to visit two events this past summer in a continuing process to update readers about California’s leading girls basketball players. This story is part one and focuses on the EOT (End of the Trail) Ultimate Challenge in Roseville during the NCAA Viewing Period in July. The second story […]
