Leading champions in CIF Southern Section championship games played at Cal Baptist University in Riverside and CIF Sac-Joaquin Section championship games played at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento were Windward of Los Angeles and St. Mary’s of Stockton. Windward, the defending CIF Open Division state champions, turned the tables on league rival Sierra Canyon […]
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CIF Open Division Projections
With CIF section boys and girls basketball championships set to tip off on Friday and continuing through Saturday night, we have the breakdowns over which teams seem to be best in line to be placed in this year’s CIF Northern California and Southern California eight-team Open Division brackets. Those will be announced on Sunday and […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Two of those we’re profiling this week for top performances from last week on the hardwood have experience playing for a CIF state championship team. Another of them hopes to get there in the Open Division while another of them could be one of the top ninth-graders in the nation. We hope you enjoy this […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
The old expression “the cream rises to the top” could not be more appropriate than in describing the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs because after all the grousing and social media complaints about the pool play format, the teams that were seeded No. 1 in each pool went 3-0, although each of their wins...
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...
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 […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
Because of pool play in the CIF Southern Section Open Division, there is now the possibility of a team losing a game but still advancing to the February 23 championship. There were no upsets in CIFSS pool play in the first round, but we’ll see if that holds true for two rounds this week. There...
Girls BB State Record Updates
We received a request recently from a prominent coach to look into a new category and have determined the best in state history for players with the most varsity career wins. It ended up being a trip down memory lane checking out the four-year records for some of the best players in state history and...
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 […]
