Category Archives: girls basketball
2024 Boys/Girls BB Coach Milestones
Both of the boys and girls all-time coaching records lists have now been updated for everyone through the 2023-24 season. The biggest milestone win for the boys was from Pasadena Poly’s Brad Hall (700th). For the girls, Mater Dei’s Kevin Kiernan (900th) and Archbishop Mitty’s Sue Phillips (800th) were the biggest. We also say best […]
State Coach of the Year: Anna Almeida
The highest girls hoops coaching honor in California, the one that now goes back 53 years, lands in the small town of Caruthers. It can be difficult to build a hugely successful program in a place like that, but it came together for 20-year head coach Anna Almeida with a CIF state title. She won […]
Girls BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the 2023-24 Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for girls basketball. These are the ones for each of the five state divisions, although we do combine the Open and Division I.
FINAL Girls BB State TOP 40 Rankings
For these final expanded rankings we obviously had a change at the top with Etiwanda defeating Archbishop Mitty for the CIF Open Division state championship, but after that only nine of the next 23 teams in the Top 25 held onto the same spot they had in the last rankings. Seven of the next 10...
Girls BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
To go along with the final overall & expanded State TOP 40 rankings, we also do an expanded & final series of rankings of all teams in the state according to the same CIF divisions they played in. These also are the final rankings placed in our archives for every season for girls hoops that...
Girls BB All-State Nominees (Part 1)
The CIF state championships have been decided and our list of boys nominees has been out for about for more than a week so it is a perfect time to get the process going for the annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams for girls basketball. These honors have been done by us just one less year […]
Girls BB Saturday CIF State Finals
State No. 2 Etiwanda puts itself into the all-time conversation with a one-sided win over previously unbeaten national No. 1 Archbishop Mitty in the CIF Open Division state championship. It is also a second straight Open Division title for the Eagles. Other big winners at the Golden 1 Center were Harvard-Westlake of Studio City (Girls […]
Friday CIF State Finals
St. John Bosco continues CIF Southern Section domination in D1 and grabs its second state title with hot-shooting win. It’s a seventh state title, meanwhile, for the Bishop Montgomery of Torrance girls in its D1 triumph vs Bishop O’Dowd. Other big winners at the Golden 1 Center were Alemany of Mission Hills (Boys D3), Caruthers […]
Girls BB CIF State Previews & Picks
It was sub-par year for us doing predictions of state finals last year at 9-3 after a 11-1 showing from 2022. It’s time to take a crack at the 2024 lineup of games for girls basketball that will be played this weekend at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. We do this with respect to […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
The funnel doesn’t get any narrower than this week with respect to rankings. Heading into Tuesday night, there are only eight teams left in action that can possibly rearrange things in the top 16 for the final rankings. Then on Friday and Saturday it will all be over with CIF state championships in Sacramento. One...
