After the Nike Tournament of Champions Joe Smith Division, the West Coast Jamboree Platinum Division and the SoCal Holiday Classic have concluded, the top five teams in the state do not change, but what does change is the order of where they’re ranked. The new No. 1 team is a Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits’ team...
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Mater Dei girls win at Jamboree
The 20th annual West Coast Jamboree concluded in the Platinum Division on Monday night at College Park High in Pleasant Hill where it was a matchup between two of the state’s top five ranked teams. The most historical moment of the night, though, occurred in the third-place game when Archbishop Mitty of San Jose head […]
All-Decade Girls BB 2010s: Teams
With 2019 coming to a close, we are proud to present the Cal-Hi Sports 2010s All-Decade All-State Teams for girls basketball. Thirty players made the cut, with the first team of 10 players comprised of nine of the 10 Ms. Basketball State Players of the Year. Strange how it worked out that way, but digging...
LB Poly girls starting 2020s like 2010s
After two sub-par seasons in 2018 and 2019, the Long Beach Poly girls basketball team is squarely back among the very best in California. If an earlier overtime win in December over Mater Dei of Santa Ana didn’t show that, the Jackrabbits surely did Monday night with a win over unbeaten No. 1 in the […]
All-Decade Girls BB 2010s: Honors
We’ll have a separate post coming on Tuesday after all of the big tournament finals on Monday that will reveal the actual all-decade all-state girls basketball teams for the 2010s, but for this first announcement we’re taking care of the major awards: State Player of the Decade, State Coach of the Decade, State School of […]
Girls BB: Nike TOC title for LJCD
It’s a coming out party for freshman center Breya Cunningham plus a feel-good triumph for senior guard Te-Hina Paopao, but it took a layup with six seconds left by Jazzy Anousinh to give state No. 2 La Jolla Country Day a one-point win over state No. 1 Sierra Canyon in the championship game of the […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Like last week and the first week of basketball players being honored when we had two players sink eight three-pointers, we have a player who made eight treys, but we also have one that canned 10 from outside the arc. This week’s selections are from Northridge, Sonora, Ontario and Sacramento. We hope you enjoy this […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Football isn’t quite over but traditionally this is the week we shift gears from the gridiron to the hard-court of the gymnasium and begin our weekly boys and girls basketball honors. For our first week, we also always remind basketball fans that for the Players of the Week features in all sports the CIF Central […]
Preseason Girls BB State Ranks (1-15)
There’s been a handful of squads that have already hit the court, but we’re still calling it preseason for the rankings and writeups that are below. Just like the boys, Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth has a CIF Open Division defending state champion that has a loaded roster on the girls side and starts out at […]
