Category Archives: State Top 25 Rankings
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
After studying all the results of the holiday tournaments, there are two newcomers to the first boys basketball State Top 25 rankings of 2022. The difficult part is not identifying the top teams, but making sense of which teams were not at full strength against key foes or had to drop out of holiday tournaments...
Nike TOC wrap: Etiwanda on top
State’s No. 1 girls team wins in the top division at nationally prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions in Arizona with come-from-behind win over first-ever Oklahoma finalist. The Eagles also set up potential No. 1 vs. No. 2 clash vs. Sierra Canyon at end of next week. Cathedral Catholic of San Diego won the title in […]
FINAL State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Extra time also is taken to closely check out any teams that can move up in these final rankings. For this group, Lincoln of San Diego goes from No. 29 to No. 26, Bellarmine of San Jose goes from No. 35 to 30 and Cajon of San Bernardino gets the nod to rejoin the top...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
Top-ranked Sierra Canyon and No. 2 Corona Centennial continue to show some separation from the rest of the state’s boys basketball elites. Can new No. 3 Campolindo join that exclusive company as the season wears on and will any other SoCal team step up to challenge the big two? There are five newcomers from the...
CIF Saturday State Finals (SoCal)
Mater Dei caps unbeaten, state and national No. 1 season with rout of San Mateo Serra in Open Division. It’s too bad, though, the school handled its post-game interactions with the media the way it did. That other Serra, from Gardena, did much better in D1-A with a win over Liberty of Bakersfield. The day […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
With some of the early season tournaments and showcase events completed, and with our preseason No. 1 team losing to No. 2, it made sense to do the first regular season state rankings heading into the December tournaments. The first nine spots got a shakeup and there was more movement near the bottom with four...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
For this week’s CIF state finals it will be No. 1 Mater Dei vs. No. 5 Serra (SM), No. 8 Folsom vs. No. 10 Cathedral Catholic, No. 19 Serra (G) vs. No. 22 Liberty (Bakersfield) and No. 21 Mater Dei Catholic vs. No. 25 Central Catholic. Go inside to see why Cathedral Catholic dropped one...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
A lot of the teams in this group of the rankings are done for the season, but they are moving up or down depending on how the last teams they lost to are doing. That means moving up this week are Buchanan of Clovis and Jesuit of Carmichael. There’s also one new team as Valley...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
With the end of the season in sight now that all section championships are in the books, Serra of San Mateo joins the top five and Lutheran of Orange joins the top 10. Folsom and Pittsburg both move up while three teams going into this first group are led by new No. 18 Helix of...
