The funnel doesn’t get any narrower than this week with respect to rankings. Heading into Tuesday night, there are only eight teams left in action that can possibly rearrange things in the top 16 for the final rankings. Then on Friday and Saturday it will all be over with CIF state championships in Sacramento. One...
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Girls BB: NEW Division State Ranks
These have been updated through Saturday night’s regional semifinals. New No. 1 teams are Pleasant Valley of Chico (D2), Caruthers (D3) and Montgomery of San Diego (D5). Still No. 1 would be Archbishop Mitty (Open), Bishop Montgomery of Torrance (D1) and St. Bernard’s of Eureka (D4). The St. Bernard’s regional semifinal vs Foothill of Palo...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. This week we have a mix of boys & girls hoops with the first writeups of the spring...
Girls BB: Divisional State Rankings
Just like the boys, here’s our first run through of each CIF division after Tuesday’s first round game and going by our own system of doing rankings. We rank 10 teams in each division and have comments after each one. We’ll have another update next week and then final rankings after the CIF state championships […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
As the regional playoffs start up this week, St. Mary’s of Stockton moves up three spots and Mission Hills of San Marcos goes up two after winning CIF sectional titles last weekend. Etiwanda also exchanges positions with Sierra Canyon at No. 2 and No. 3 after its huge win in the CIF Southern Section Open...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For our final week this season of honoring one girl and one boy each from Southern and Northern California as our basketball players of the week we have some real hidden talent that would only see local honors if not for these awards. Also, in a bit of a twist we personally saw the SoCal […]
Girls BB: Salute To Section Champions
There were a lot more girls teams that earned CIF section championships over the weekend besides state No. 3 Etiwanda and the ones we covered on Wednesday in Sacramento. Here’s a roundup of all of the other section champions from around California. Each team deserves to get a mention with all of the others that […]
A Day/Night At Golden 1 Center
CIF section basketball finals played on a Wednesday are not the norm, but the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and Golden 1 Center got it done so that this year’s finals could still be played at the NBA arena. Big winners among the six championships decided during the day & night were Modesto Christian (D1 boys) and […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. This edition is for the last two weeks of action. The big news is on the boys side...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
This was a week of “almost” when it came to making some tweaks in the first 13 spots but in the end the decision was keep those teams intact heading into the final week of section playoffs. However, after that we had some upsets that caused some movement and in fact only one team from...
