It’s been Oracle Arena in Oakland since 2006, but the Oakland Coliseum Arena has been home to the four-time world champion Golden State Warriors since 1971. It’s also been the site of some historically significant high school basketball games (both boys and girls). With the Warriors moving to San Francisco after this season and the […]
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Clovis West boys/girls CIF split?
From the bizarro world of CIF state playoffs, competitive equity seeding and Open Divisions comes this very real possibility: one prominent school in which its boys basketball team is competing in Northern California while its girls team is in Southern California. The school we’re talking about is Clovis West of Fresno, which is the top […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This week we have the wrap on the outstanding careers of Jarod Lucas, Joseph Octave and Jaime Jaquez as all three of their seasons have ended with their teams losing in the CIF Southern Section playoffs. Some other high-scoring boys and girls players such as Michael Vivo of Riverbank and Anna Treder of California Lutheran...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
With NorCal ending the regular season while most of SoCal was in the first week of section playoffs, we have stops this week in Elk Grove, Fairfield, Encino and San Diego. One of our tips of the hat is for a 50-point game while another was for a huge outing against a team led by […]
Fantag Games of Week: It’s a wrap
For the final game of this six-week series with new partners from Fantag, we went to last Friday’s Capital Valley Conference matchup between visiting Inderkum of Sacramento and host Roseville. Inderkum won with a big fourth quarter to force a three-way tie with River Valley of Yuba City for the league title. Go inside this […]
Boys BB State Record Updates
All three of those moving up the career scoring list this season — Jarod Lucas (Hacienda Heights Los Altos), Joseph Octave (San Pedro Mary Star) and Jaime Jaquez (Camarillo) — are still going in the CIF Southern Section playoffs and can move up even more on Tuesday. We also have added a third 70-point game...
Fantag Games of the Week No. 6
For this final post in this series for this season, it’s a bit different in that we are highlighting what happened in our girls game from earlier this week in Manteca while previewing an attempt by Roseville High’s boys to complete a surprising bid to win the Capital Valley Conference title. Go inside for a […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Scoring 24 points often isn’t enough to be a player of the week, but St. Mary’s of Stockton junior point guard Jamar Marshall did it when his team ended the state-record and national-best 194-game league win streak held by Modesto Christian. We talked with Jamar at school earlier this week about that game. He’s joined […]
Fantag Games: Colfax girls, Vanden boys triumphant
Click on the link after each game recap to see video highlights from each of these two Fantag Games of the Week. For this fifth week, we have recaps and video highlights from the Colfax girls winning in a crucial Pioneer Valley League matchup plus the Vanden of Fairfield boys knotting up the Monticello Empire […]
