We offer some notes and tidbits on California boys high school basketball as the 2024-25 season approaches. This will be our 45th consecutive season that CalHiSports.com (Cal-Hi Sports) will provide state rankings, state record updates, honor all-state players and serve as the home of the Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year. We hope […]
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Boys BB: More State Players of the Year
Here’s where to go to see the Cal-Hi Sports 2024 top honorees for juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division with Open & D1 combined. Three different sophomores have collected a player of the year honor since two of them have been chosen for their CIF divisions.
Boys BB Saturday CIF State Finals
Harvard-Westlake completes its mission of winning CIF Southern Section Open Division & CIF Open Division state titles with a victory over Salesian of Richmond. It wasn’t easy, though, as the Pride had the lead in the fourth quarter with less than two minutes left. Also earning CIF state titles on Saturday were Monterey (D4) and […]
NEW Top 65 Class of ’26 Player Ranks
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. The sophomore class (2026) has been a bumper crop so far and could one day rate among the state’s best all-time classes. We expand our 2026 rankings from 25 to 65 for this installment...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. We begin this week with basketball coaches who have won their 800th, 500th and 400th games. There also...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the second straight week, Cal-Hi Sports saw the Northern California girls honoree in person, and we almost saw both the NorCal and Southern California award winners this week since both were playing at the same Sabrina Ionescu SI20 Showcase event in Concord. It’s just that part of their games were being played at the […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. Since anyone from football will have a big outing this week in a state final and every one of those will be written up separately, this feature also will switch almost all to basketball next week. Football’s best this week...
