Category Archives: player rankings
Boys BB: Introducing 2027 Class
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a first look at the state’s top ninth-graders. The freshman (2027) class has good talent at the top already making a big impact, but it’s still too early to tell how it will stack up to the hot tracking 2026 class. Some in this group...
NEW Top 65 Class of ’26 Player Ranks
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. The sophomore class (2026) has been a bumper crop so far and could one day rate among the state’s best all-time classes. We expand our 2026 rankings from 25 to 65 for this installment...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’25 Player Ranks
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs rolls on with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. We just published our 2024 Hot 100 for seniors and now we take a look at the Hot 100 juniors (2025). Our Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 for this class expands from a Top...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’24 Player Ranks
We continue our boys basketball coverage for the 2023-24 school year for Gold Club VIPs with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class, beginning with seniors (2024). Our Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 has plenty of change and a whopping 27 newcomers since our last update to close out 2022-23 and we’ll...
All-Time State Player Rankings (QBs)
After an NFL playoff weekend earlier this month in which California QBs went 4-0, we thought we’d update our all-time state player rankings for the quarterbacks. These rankings are based strictly on how players have done after high school and not on what they did during high school. The No. 1 spot is the GOAT...
Girls of Summer: Player Rankings
Here’s a chart of the 125 top players viewed by the Girls of Summer Caravan during all events attended in person. It starts with the only player to get a 9.5 mark out of 10 down to everyone with 7.0 or higher. This isn’t a ranking of the top 125 players in the state because...
Girls of Summer: Final stops of tour
The actual player rankings derived from these trips to see some of the most promising girls basketball players in the state this summer are still to come. Here’s a recap of where we went with a focus on the final two destinations for events in Seal Beach and Ladera Ranch in Southern California. Several returnees...
Preseason San Diego Section FB Team
Lincoln of San Diego, the 2022 CIF D1-AA state champion, loses a lot of star power from last season but has an impact transfer at QB and other preseason honorees that should keep the team near the top. The school that does have the most star power, of course, is Carlsbad and it’s not just...
Preseason Sac-Joaquin Sec FB Team
Perennial powerhouse Folsom is expected to get a big challenge in the SJS this season from Sierra Foothill League rival Granite Bay along with St. Mary’s of Stockton from the south. All three of those teams have more than one preseason all-section honoree. This is the latest stop in our annual tour of the state...
Preseason L.A. City Section FB Team
As L.A. City section programs look to continue to build continuity and grow participation numbers as the state puts the pandemic behind it. City Section programs have an abundance of talent at the skill positions and plenty of top players who put up big statistical outputs a years ago back, but the talent in the...
