After all of the holiday tournaments and showcases, we always expect a major shakeup in the rankings, but this New Year’s edition is the craziest we can recall in recent memory. After we poured over all the results and when it’s all said and done, we have a new state No. 1 because of the...
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NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
After the Nike Tournament of Champions Joe Smith Division, the West Coast Jamboree Platinum Division and the SoCal Holiday Classic have concluded, the top five teams in the state do not change, but what does change is the order of where they’re ranked. The new No. 1 team is a Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits’ team...
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
There is some shake-up at the top, as state preseason boys hoops No. 3 Rancho Christian and No. 4 Etiwanda have already lost. There also are some teams that will eventually be ranked higher than a team it lost to in an early-season game and that is reflected in our first regular season ratings. We...
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Rankings
Thunderstorms and rain throughout Northern California cause a disruption in section playoffs (some games rescheduled to Monday), but we decided to stay on our usual Monday schedule of doing a State Top 25 update. This will be the next-to-last rankings of the season since we will wait until all games in the state are done...
NEW Softball State Top 25 Rankings
Gahr of Cerritos goes up to No. 4 after beating Los Alamitos and Santiago (Corona) in CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs. The Gladiators play No. 3 Great Oak in semifinals with winner likely to face defending champion and No. 1 Norco in this weekend’s title game. This week’s two highest newcomers are No. 18 St....
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Rankings
After previous No. 1 Orange Lutheran was stunned by a three-run seventh-inning rally in a loss to Harvard-Westlake in the CIF Southern Section D1 quarterfinals, a new No. 1 needed to be declared for this week. Go inside to see all of our reasons why the new No. 1 is De La Salle of Concord....
NEW Softball State Top 25 Rankings
The first major upset of the section playoffs this year already has taken place as previous No. 4 Grand Terrace fell in its CIF Southern Section Division I first-round game. That created some movement for this week’s rankings. The team that beat the Titans, Huntington Beach, went from unranked to No. 19 but has been...
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Rankings
As the CIF Southern Section playoffs already will be in the quarterfinal round by the end of this week, some of the state’s other section playoffs will not even have begun yet. CIFSS Division I playoff teams continue to hold down the No. 1, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 positions with...
