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...
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State Roundup: Games Overshadowed
We wish we were writing about Corona High, Corona Centennial or Corona del Mar, but Saturday’s CIF regional semifinals in both boys and girls basketball were eclipsed in significance by off-the-court developments relating to the coronavirus outbreak. Two-time defending CIF NorCal Open Division champion Sheldon of Sacramento (boys) thought on Saturday that its season ended […]
Boys BB: Divisional State Rankings
Go through this post for updated outlooks and rankings for every CIF division plus we have as many state record updates that we could find in a limited amount of time from Thursday’s incredible 128-123 win in six overtimes by Damien of La Verne over Riverside Poly in the SoCal D1 quarterfinals. No. 1 teams […]
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,...
Boys/Girls BB Pairings Reactions
There is some shock in the basketball community with all of the first-round byes for the Open Divisions, but with the way the results came in for the entire season so far and with the rise of competitive equity as an overriding factor in the seedings for all CIF playoff sports, it was a direction […]
Boys/Girls BB: More Section Finals
This isn’t a recap of all of them, but several of Friday’s CIF Sac-Joaquin Section title games and the showdown between state No. 2 Mater Dei and No. 4 Windward (Los Angeles) for the CIF Southern Section Open Division girls championship were witnessed by Cal-Hi Sports editors. Boys state No. 4 Sheldon (Sacramento) was nearly […]
NorCal/SoCal Open Div. Breakdowns
After all of this weekend’s CIF section championships in basketball are complete, the CIF will meet on Sunday morning to finalize its pairings for this year’s state playoffs. The biggest questions always surround which teams will be in the Open Division and which ones should get a first-round bye. We have both boys and girls...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the final quartet of players of the week from the 2019-20 season, the trick has been not just to find deserving candidates but those who don’t have section playoff games on a Tuesday night. All four, in fact, are on teams that already have clinched berths in section finals (including one on Monday night). […]
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...
Boys & Girls BB State Stat Stars
For this edition of state record updates infused with some of the best individual outings of the last two weeks, we figure out where two of the top scorers in CIF Southern Section history — Clark Slajchert of Oak Park and Josh Christopher of Lakewood Mayfair — will wind up on the all-time state career...
