Category Archives: State Top 20 Rankings
NEW Baseball State Top 20
What’s going on with all these ties? The top two teams from last week were both involved with ties so the only option is to move up a team that doesn’t have one, unbeaten Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, into the new No. 1 position. Not all ties are equal, either, so the ones for...
NEW Softball State Top 20
It could have been three different teams that could have been the new No. 1 in this week’s State Top 20, but the pick went to the next highest in line as Cathedral Catholic of San Diego moved up from No. 2. Previous No. 1 Norco lost to new No. 3 Lutheran of Orange in...
Final Fours For CIF Open Hoops Set
For the boys, new state No. 1 Sierra Canyon goes overtime for the second time in a little more than two weeks to beat No. 2 Bishop Montgomery. Etiwanda, Bishop O’Dowd and Sheldon also move on. For the girls, there won’t be a No. 1 vs. No 2 state matchup in the NorCal final as […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
The final eight for the CIF Open Division is set, and after the way it shook out those eight teams have risen to the final eight spots for the state rankings and will stay there, although it might not be in the same position for the final rankings as we have them in this week’s...
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
Previous No. 1 and No. 2 went down and what did it create? A No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown this week in the SoCal Open semifinals between two teams that have already split games this season. All four SoCal D1 teams still alive are now ranked, but did any NorCal D1 team make it...
Salesian & Mater Dei both stunned
The first night of the CIF Open Division boys basketball state playoffs saw both top seeds from the north and south suffer elimination upset losses. State No. 1 Salesian of Richmond lost in overtime to Folsom while state No. 2 Mater Dei of Santa Ana was tripped up by Fairfax of Los Angeles. Read on […]
NEW Baseball State Top 20
This week’s first regular season rankings for California baseball are complicated with a 0-0 tie taking place in a matchup of two top five teams. There are no ties in the rankings so we’ll leave those two teams — Elk Grove and Valley Christian of San Jose — right where they were. The tie did […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
The various section championships around the state brought two newcomers to this week’s State Top 20, including a San Joaquin Memorial team that didn’t know if it was going North or South for the regional brackets. With the NorCal and SoCal regional brackets released on Sunday, we see that all but two of the 16...
Winners/Losers in CIF Open Brackets
We go over each of the two boys and girls Open Division playoff brackets (both north and south) released on Sunday and present our breakdowns of which teams fared well and which teams did not. As the Open Division continues to evolve, it will be interesting to see if the CIF Southern Section will ever...
