The playoffs in the CIF Southern, San Diego, Central and Central Coast Sections have concluded this past week and they have crowned their champions. Now, the Open Division teams from all but the Central Coast Section are moving on to the CIF Southern Regional Playoffs along with other teams that qualified for an expanded playoff...
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SoCal Boys/Girls BB Pairings Reaction
It’s been very hard for anyone looking at all these teams playing limited schedules to evaluate them so we don’t want to be too critical of the CIF in how it seeded teams for the upcoming CIF Southern California regional championships, which are starting Tuesday with the first round. The most important point is that […]
White-Hot CIFSS Final Goes To MD
Monarchs capture their second straight CIF Southern Section Open Division title with an overtime win over Centennial of Corona on a buzzer-beating three-pointer by junior Lani White. Showdown matchups involving the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the state and with both sporting unbeaten records don’t always live up to the hype. This one […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It’s the next to last installment of this feature for this pandemic-affected and shortened season, but we can keep going with the CIF Central Coast Section still going until Saturday of this weekend. We have a CCS girl chosen this week for the north combined with a NorCal boys’ player who was sensational in his […]
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs in the CIF Southern Section, Central Section, San Diego Section and Central Coast Section will all conclude this weekend with teams that qualify moving on to the Southern Regional playoffs while the CCS teams join the other sections in the CIF Northern Region whose seasons have concluded. As for movement this week, the...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
We’re getting close the end of this feature for this pandemic-affected and shortened season, partly because the two largest Northern California sections (North Coast and Sac-Joaquin) are almost finished, and we don’t like the feature coming out either during or after a possible season-ending playoff game for someone we choose is played. For this week, […]
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs are under way in the CIF Southern Section and as expected there were no upsets in the first round of Open Division Pool A and Pool B play. Playoffs will also be getting underway this week in the CIF Central Section and the CIF San Diego Section feeding into the Southern California regionals,...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For our basketball honorees this week we have two from the San Gabriel Valley, including a girl from a city famous for its parade and the Rose Bowl for our SoCal award winners. We also head north and stop near one of the most famous prisons in the state, plus we go south of Fresno […]
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs begin in the CIF Southern Section this weekend and while we want to try and mirror the Open Division seedings in the CIF Southern Section our rankings are not seedings and we use a completely different set of criteria that has less emphasis on some factors the Southern Section and other sections for...
State Stat Stars of the Week
We have two weeks of honor roll performers, coaching accomplishments and more in this installment of this feature. For boys hoops, we have the fourth coach in state history to win his 900th game, plus we have a player reaching 2,000 career points and a team winning its 17th consecutive league title. For girls hoops,...
