The creation today of the State Champions Invitational, a boys and girls basketball tournament for selected championship teams, was announced by Skokie, Ill.-based Paragon Marketing Group. The inaugural event will take place April 7-9 in Florida. The event is a spin-off of GEICO Nationals, an end-of-season hoops tournament which combined both eligible state champions and highly-ranked independent […]
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Boys BB: Introducing 2024 Class
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a first look at the state’s top incoming 10th-graders. The freshman (2024) class from last spring has terrific talent that has already made a splash on the high school scene. Some in the group are already mature and it’s important to keep that in mind when...
Boys BB: NEW ’23 State Player Ranks
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with an updated look at the close of the school year at the state’s top college prospects in the sophomore (2023) class. Our final 2023 Cal-Hi Sports Top 65 for the 2020-21 school year shows nine newcomers since our last update and many fast-rising prospects. Our final...
Boys BB: Final ’21 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a final look at the state’s top college prospects in the senior (2021) class. Our final 2021 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows many changes and 27 newcomers. Obviously there are many changes since we haven’t updated our players rankings in a calendar year due...
All-State BB: Best of the Best
Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year Amari Bailey of state power Sierra Canyon and two terrific seniors from the CIF Southern Section’s Baseline League headline the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state boys basketball teams. Go inside to see why these 10 have finished their careers as First Team Overall honorees out of the thousands […]
Updated Boys BB State Top 20
As the major holiday tournaments heat up, we update our preseason boys basketball state rankings. Our next update will be January 4 after those tournaments give us key results. Sierra Canyon is now the top-ranked team and plays national No. 1 Oak Hill Academy of Virginia on December 15. Note: After the holiday tournaments, all […]
Schea Cotton Doc Premiers
Long-awaited basketball documentary about former St. John Bosco and Mater Dei basketball standout Schea Cotton finally premiers after long production. “Manchild” is a story about a young basketball phenom who did not reach the NBA after many concluded it was a foregone conclusion. The documentary focuses on Cotton’s youth exploits and upbringing, his battle with the NCAA […]
Prep2Prep Classic: Sweep For SoCal
In the final grassroots event of the summer, SoCal swept its NorCal counterparts in the two boys basketball games of the first-ever Prep2Prep California All-Star Classic. The Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth guard duo of Remy Martin and Devearl Ramsey earn MVP honors in the 2017 and 2016 games, respectively.
