FOR ALL OF THE BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM STATE RECORDS, CLICK HERE. It took a couple of days, but all of the exclusive state boys basketball records on this site have now been completely updated with approximately four times the categories as before, including individual all-time leaders for scoring, free throw shooting, three-pointers, rebounds, assists, steals,...
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Boys BB State Team Records Updated
All of the exclusive state boys basketball team records on this site have now been completely updated with more categories added, including three-point shooting for a season, perfect free throw shooting for a game and what happened in a 1975 game that ended 2-2 in regulation. We have lots of mentions for Mater Dei, Chino...
Ben Yurosek: Grid-Hoop State POY
The 6-foot-5, 220-pound senior from Bakersfield Christian wasn’t able to add a CIF Division IV state title in basketball to the one he celebrated in December in D3-A in football, but he led the Eagles to a SoCal regional title and he was the Bakersfield Californian Player of the Year in both sports. Ben also […]
2019-20 Grid-Hoop All-State Teams
To kick off our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year, we begin with a look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes on our 34th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the group is Bakersfield Christian’s Ben Yurosek. We have even more listed as Grid-Hoop...
State’s All-Time NBA 1st Round Picks
At some point there will be an NBA Draft this summer and there’s growing consensus that two of the very top choices will be former Chino Hills High teammates Onyeka Okongwu and LaMelo Ball. As a prelude to that draft and to match a list we did a few weeks ago that featured every first-round...
Boys BB: CA’s All-Time Best Honor Roll
In addition to state records in various sports, we have also maintained alumni lists of those from California high schools who’ve collected major awards and honors for college and the pros. For boys basketball, we have Hall of Fame members, U.S. Olympic Team members, first and second team All-NBA players, college players of the year […]
Inside The All-State Boys BB Teams
For some reason, we have the time to go over more from the 2019-20 season in California and we couldn’t get everything we learned into all of the various all-state team releases. Go inside to find out some of our toughest choices, names of more top sophomores and freshmen who just missed being all-state but...
Bill Cartwright’s Last Dance (in H.S.)
The two-time Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year from Elk Grove is in the background quite often in the hugely popular ESPN 10-part mini-series “The Last Dance,” which is entering its final weeks. He was the starting center on the first three of the Chicago Bulls’ NBA championship teams led by Michael Jordan and […]
Boys BB: Public School State TOYs
Inspired by a comment from longtime Etiwanda head coach Dave Kleckner, we went through 50 years of California boys basketball in the long break caused by the pqndemic and selected a Public School State Team of the Year for each season. Kleckner had several teams on the list. And despite the rise of Sierra Canyon...
All-State BB: Best of the Best
Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year B.J. Boston of state No. 1 Sierra Canyon and Evan Mobley of Rancho Christian, a national player of the year candidate for two years, headline the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state boys basketball teams. Go inside to see why these 10 have finished their careers as First Team […]
