Category Archives: State Top 25 Rankings
LJCD Sweet 16 Roundup
State No. 1 Etiwanda girls crank up the defense to win Platinum Division title at 21st annual La Jolla Country Day Sweet 16 early season tournament. Host school reaches the title game and its longtime head coach, Terri Bamford, won the 700th game of her career to join an illustrious all-time state list. We hope […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mater Dei goes back to the No. 1 spot it was in before last year’s CIF Southern Section championships and if recent history is a guide will stay there until St. John Bosco wins the next time in the series between the two schools. Pittsburg and Mission Viejo get big bumps, but are still playing...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
CIFSS D3 champion St. Bonaventure just misses first group, but leads off this next 25 and moved up four spots. Section champions Los Gatos, La Serna and St. Augustine also move up this week. A group of three newcomers includes CIF North Coast Section D2 champion El Cerrito for the first time this season. The...
NorCal Tip-Off Classic Recaps
Here’s the results and recaps from the 16th Annual NorCal Tip-Off Classic at Dublin. Nationally-ranked and state No. 4 Roosevelt of Eastvale records a big win over No. 8 Riordan of San Francisco in an early NorCal-SoCal showdown. State No. 13 De La Salle of Concord and No. 16 Branson also pick up key victories […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
It will be No. 1 vs No. 2 once again in the CIF Southern Section D1 final on Friday at the L.A. Coliseum and again it will be St. John Bosco vs Mater Dei but at the end of the night will they be in the same order? Corona Centennial stays No. 3, but Serra...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Teams playing each other this weekend now all placed in this range of our overall state rankings include St. Bonaventure vs Warren, La Serna vs Corona del Mar, Los Gatos vs Wilcox and Mission Hills vs St. Augustine. McClymonds of Oakland also returns despite having to take a forfeit win in its section playoffs. FOR...
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
From Saturday, Granite Hills wins battle of unbeatens vs Lincoln for CIF San Diego Section Open Division title. After Friday results, it will be No. 1 St. John Bosco and No. 2 Mater Dei playing each other for the seventh time in the last eight seasons in next week’s CIF Southern Section D1 final. It […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Some of the head-to-head results that have held some teams back now become less important as the CIF section playoffs start to conclude and CIF regional projections come into more focus. The top four remain the same and this week they are all playing each other in the loaded CIF Southern Section D1 semifinals. Teams...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
With the various CIF section playoffs around the state moving into their last two weeks, there is a lot of change in the rankings. The biggest movers coming up include Murrieta Valley (up 13 places), Central of Fresno (up six) and Los Gatos (up six). We also have six newcomers, led by new No. 36...
Preseason Girls BB Ranks (1-15)
Welcome to the start of our coverage of the 2023-24 girls basketball season in California. We begin with the same format for the boys — top 40 overall preseason state state rankings — and have matched the coverage of the two genders for more than 40 years. Despite transfers and graduations aplenty, the top four […]