Is it too early to start thinking about being the No. 1 seed for this year’s CIF Northern California Open Division boys basketball playoffs? When a team is unbeaten, ranked nationally and No. 5 overall in the state, maybe not. Salesian of Richmond is that team and the Pride closed out the headline game of […]
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State Stat Stars of the Week
We’ve got all of the details this week on Jarod Lucas of Los Altos (Hacienda Heights) joining the 3,000-point club for career scoring. We have all of them correct too, since we’ve been doing state records for 40 years. Lucas wasn’t the only big-time California player to have a big week. San Joaquin Memorial’s Jalen...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
To the Victor go the spoils and this week that means our NorCal Boys Player of the Week is Dailen Victor from Chavez of Stockton, who has 43 and 47 points in back-to-back games. We also honor a 2,000-point career scorer from San Diego and two girls, one from Brentwood the other from Simi Valley, […]
Fantag Games of the Week No. 3
So far, the choices of games written up in this feature have all been great to see. This time, we’re doing our first Fantag Game of the Week for one team from outside of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section, although it will be for one of the featured girls games at Saturday’s Martin Luther King Jr. […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Rankings
Our new boys hoops rankings sees the top ranked team from the CIF San Diego Section go back into the rankings but we couldn’t quite yet get in the No. 1 team from the CIF Central Section. There are some other changes, the majority of which involves Trinity League teams. Speaking of the Trinity, what...
State Stat Stars of the Week
As SoCal Boys Player of the Week Jarod Lucas of Hacienda Heights Los Altos gets closer to 2,900 career points, we also are tracking two others moving up the all-time state list with Joseph Octave of Mary Star (San Pedro) now above 2,400 and Jaime Jaquez of Camarillo now above 2,300. We also have a...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
It’s a great week to write up Jarod Lucas of Hacienda Heights Los Altos as the SoCal Boys Player of the Week since he’s just about to pass DeMar DeRozan of the San Antonio Spurs for the 15th spot on the Cal-Hi Sports all-time state career scoring list. This week’s other three honorees are from […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Rankings
We update our boys hoops rankings after the major holiday tournaments and New Year’s showcases cases are in the books and there is a clear pecking order at the top, with one switch involving top-ranked teams. It’s at the bottom of the order where things are muddled, as we’re still waiting to see which team...
Fantag Games of the Week No. 2
With the first set of games in this new series resulting in an upset and an overtime among the three featured, this second set begins Wednesday with a major girls hoops matchup in the Sacramento area. It will continue Thursday with a new State Top 20 boys team in the spotlight and will extend to […]
Fantag Games of Week Recaps
Click on the link after each game recap to see video highlights from each of these three Fantag Games of the Week. For this first week, we’d say we had one upset, one game that was close throughout and another that went to overtime. Stay tuned to see previews for our next set of these […]
