The funnel is now as narrow as it gets with just two games remaining in each and all of the six CIF state divisions, and to no one’s surprise the top seeds held suit in the CIF Open Division regional semifinals. Those teams are now all ranked in the top nine for the state, led...
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NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
In one of the wildest weekends we can ever recall in covering boys basketball in our great state, NorCal No. 1 Sheldon is removed from the NorCal regional playoffs on Saturday by the closing of the Elk Grove Unified School District and its related activities for a week, only to see the same district ask...
NEW State Top 25 Softball Rankings
Norco remains No. 1 but will be joined at this weekend’s Dave Kops Tournament of Champions in Bullhead City, Ariz., by No. 2 Chino Hills and No. 4 Los Alamitos. The Griffins won a big game on Tuesday over Santiago of Corona. There were several other Tuesday games that impacted the rankings, but not involving...
NEW State Top 25 Baseball Rankings
The top four and really even newcomer Ayala of Chino Hills at No. 5 can all make strong arguments for being in the No. 1 position. This week’s first regular season state rankings also includes results from Tuesday of this week, led by unbeaten JSerra of San Juan Capistrano sweeping a pair in a double-header...
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
Despite our wholehearted support of the state CIF and the difficulty of seeding so many teams in so many divisions with competitive equity looking over the shoulders of the seeding committees, we can’t help but think a different format may be needed for the Open Division going forward. Are five or six teams (and in...
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
The CIF stayed true to its message about competitive equity when it released its boys basketball state regional pairings with the state’s top teams in both NorCal and SoCal receiving byes. This model also created a situation where all of the six participants in the SoCal open division are from the massive CIF Southern Section,...
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
This is section championship week around the state, as seeds and brackets will be announced for the NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs next Sunday. The big question will be how many teams from the CIF Southern Section are taken for the SoCal open because that will ultimately affect favorites for the CIF D1 state crown...
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
The CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs have already completed one of the three games in pool play heading into this week and two of the games were decided by two and three points, and the other two games were not blowouts, either. Now, the rest of the state, except the Central Coast Section where...
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
After one round of games in the CIF Southern Section open pool play format, we still don’t have solid evidence based on the game results that, outside of NorCal No. 1 Sheldon, any of the state’s other top playoff teams should be ranked ahead of those eight. That could change starting next week, however, as...
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
We were coasting along through the first 16 spots this week and then based on the CIF Southern Section playoff pecking order we had a change that impacted the next five teams. Once again we looked for a way to get in some newcomers, but once again no one dropped out. With the CIF Southern...
