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FINAL Girls BB State Top 40

As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final Top 40 overall girls basketball team rankings, this time covering the 2017-18 season. We don’t go by computers but by eyeballs and more than 35 years experience ranking and evaluating teams. That experience also has shown us that final No. 1 teams for a...

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NEW Baseball State Top 20

If No. 1 Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks and No. 2 Huntington Beach both win in their first games of this week’s SoCal Boras Classic, they would play on Wednesday in a state No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup. Bellarmine of San Jose has already won the NorCal Boras Classic and because of that has...

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FINAL Boys BB State Top 40

As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings, this time covering the 2017-18 season. With Sheldon losing in the CIF State Open final, we adjust some open division teams with L.A. Westchester and Santa Ana Mater Dei getting upward bumps. Find out where D2 champ...

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NEW Softball State Top 20

Bad weather and spring break contributed to a lack of games and not much movement in this week’s State Top 20. Look for the first 10 teams to go on our ticker beginning Monday and for more changes next week as make-up games are coming. Unbeaten Santa Margarita getting a bump and Poway getting uplifted...

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NEW Baseball State Top 20

Unbeaten teams are on the move in this week’s rankings, which were done on Sunday to account for a solid portion of teams that are playing on Monday. Foothill of Pleasanton is up from No. 8 to No. 3, Arcadia is up from No. 14 to No. 8 and Mira Costa of Manhattan Beach is...

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NEW Softball State Top 20

With Thursday’s Los Alamitos at Norco game postponed by weather, the Griffins (who are still unbeaten) go back to the top spot in the state this week to replace previous No. 1 Cathedral Catholic. Norco moves up to No. 3 with Orange Lutheran (which has split with Norco) at No. 2. Newcomers this week are...

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CIF Basketball Picks & Previews

Here are the predicted scores, what to watch for and more for each of the 12 CIF boys and girls basketball state championship games coming up this weekend in Sacramento. We will focus most on the Open Division and Division I, but also have the picks for each of the other divisions too. With more […]

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NEW Girls BB State Top 20

The lone newcomer this week wasn’t even at .500 until this week but we kept them on the bubble and now Sacred Heart Cathedral of San Francisco is playing for all the marbles in Division I. With two nationally-ranked teams going down in the NorCal Open division, including the nation’s top team, meant a fairly...

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NEW Boys BB State Top 20

Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth retains its No. 1 ranking and will face Sheldon of Sacramento in the CIF Open Division state championship game on Saturday evening in Sacramento. Find out how high Sheldon moved up in this week’s State Top 20 after defeating previous No. 5 Bishop O’Dowd of Oakland in the NorCal Open Division...

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Sierra Canyon, Sheldon Open-bound

With a player like Duke’s Marvin Bagley, it was supposed to be last year’s team at Sierra Canyon going to the CIF Open Division state final. The Trailblazers booked their ticket to this year’s final with a come-from-behind win over Etiwanda. In the CIF NorCal Open title game, Sheldon of Sacramento won its second regional […]

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