There is no new team able to crack the updated boys basketball State Top 25 rankings, but there is plenty of movement because of first game results in the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs and big results in Northern California. Getting a nice upward bump this week is Mitty of San Jose, Lincoln of...
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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The playoffs begin in the CIF Southern Section and with a couple of exceptions the seedings of the Open Division look more like these rankings than they ever did in any of the previous polls the CIFSS releases each week. With league play wrapping up and limited non-league action last week throughout the state, there...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
There is some movement this week in the updated boys basketball Top 25 state rankings, as the eight teams and matchups for the upcoming CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs have been announced. Check out the rankings to see one highly-ranked team that didn’t make the field. There’s one more week left in the regular...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In the last rankings, the top team nearly got toppled but it didn’t quite happen, and there was no movement in the first 12 spots. This week it’s much different. Etiwanda, La Jolla Country Day and Sierra Canyon are still 1-2-3, but upsets up north (and Monday night in Orange County) have caused big moves....
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The big games at the Nike Extravaganza caused some change among the middle of the pack teams in this week’s updated State Top 25 rankings. Corona Centennial strengthens its grip on No. 1, while newcomer Village Christian (Sun Valley) has a big game right away on Monday, as does Baseline League powers Damien and Etiwanda....
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
There were some terrific matchups last week, but the only changes are at the bottom of this week’s boys basketball State Top 25 rankings as the post-season nears. A couple of close games could have altered the rankings significantly if the underdogs pulled out victories, but in most instances the higher ranked teams won. Newcomers...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
This is a special edition of the boys basketball Top 25 state rankings not only because it includes Monday MLK results, but also includes two weeks of results. We didn’t update our rankings last week because of all the COVID-19 related postponements and cancellations and there are still a handful of ranked teams that have...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The dominance of the Southern California teams in the preseason and then the first rankings in early December has been tempered after the results of the Nike TOC and the West Coast Jamboree, but SoCal still claims the first three spots. After that we have some movement with a couple of Northern California teams making...
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...