Category Archives: State Top 20 Rankings
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
It’s that time of the year when the CIF Southern Section gets a jump on some of the other larger sections such as the CIF Sac-Joaquin, North Coast and Central Coast sections that were either still in league play or in league playoffs at the start of this week. In a CIFSS league playoffs last...
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
In SoCal, section playoffs are beginning in the massive Southern Section and the L.A. City Section and by next week we’ll have reached the point of the season where state-ranked teams actually face each other, particularly in the CIFSS Open Division playoffs. Two newcomers crack the rankings this week, one from NorCal and one from...
Boys BB: CIFSS Open Predictions
We break down the 16 teams in boys basketball that should be selected for the CIF Southern Section’s Open Division playoffs. It’s the third year for the massive section’s open division and it should include all 10 of the section’s teams ranked in this week’s Cal-Hi Sports State Top 20. There are plenty of candidates […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
It’s a bit of a shame this year as the playoffs approach is that it’s not looking like the top two teams in the state will play in the CIF Open Division title game. Usually this is because the top two are in the south, but this year the top three girls teams are in...
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
State and national No. 1 Chino Hills rolls again in a showcase game, but where do Foothills Christian and De La Salle fall after losing big games at the Nike Extravaganza? Damien of La Verne cracks the top 10 and one new team cracks the Top 20. Note: There are not going to be separate...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
There is not a ton of movement after last week’s games, and nothing among the Top 10 teams. The only newcomer is a very young Harvard-Westlake team that lost in a big game on Tuesday night but notched a huge win last week over previously ranked Oaks Christian. This week also should be quite different...
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
Chino Hills retains its No. 1 state and national ranking after a big 71-67 victory over state No. 2 Bishop Montgomery in a highly-anticipated showdown. Bishop Montgomery doesn’t drop and could still play spoiler to the Huskies’ dream season. If you’d like to see which team is the lone newcomer in the updated rankings with...
After No. 1 beats No. 2, what’s next?
It wasn’t the typical high-scoring hijinks seen for games so far involving state and national No. 1 Chino Hills, but the play of its two freshmen starters may have been the difference in a 71-67 triumph vs. state No. 2 Bishop Montgomery of Torrance in Saturday night’s Fairfax State Preview. The Knights may get two […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
It didn’t take a buzzer beater for previous No. 19 Santa Barbara to taste defeat, but it sure did for Pinewood of Los Altos Hills. Pinewood thus drops from No. 8 to No. 11 this week with San Diego teams plus Bishop O’Dowd going up. This week’s lone newcomer, meanwhile, is Oak Ridge of El...
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
It’s official. It will be a No. 1 vs. No. 2 in the state affair when top-ranked Chino Hills takes on second-ranked Bishop Montgomery this Saturday at Cerritos College. Do the Knights have a chance versus RUN GMZ? There are seven other solid games at the Fairfax State Preview, but that game trumps all others...
