Congrats to all the section champions and those looking to bounce back in the regional as California has reached its “win or go home” portion of the season. As the regional playoffs kick off, our Top 5 remain the same, since our rankings do not always match the NorCal and SoCal regional seedings. There’s one...
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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 […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
Since there were no teams that lost last week and not much to change, we begin this week’s rankings with a more detailed explanation of the new CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs being conducted through a pool play format. State No. 1 Sierra Canyon leads the pack in those playoffs. No. 2 Archbishop Mitty...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
With so many top teams in action against each other last week or over the MLK weekend playing top-notch competition, it was thought there could be a shakeup for this week’s rankings, and there is, with the biggest change being for the third straight week there is a new leader at the top of the...
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...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Two of our honorees this week led their state-ranked teams to wins in out-of-state tournaments. One of the others did the same at a major tourney in Modesto while the other rained down points at the West Coast Jamboree. The four are from Stockton, Santa Rosa, Los Angeles and Chatsworth.
Girls BB: New No. 1 For Coach K
Santa Ana Mater Dei’s Kevin Kiernan notches the 762nd win of his girls basketball coaching career Wednesday night at tourney opener in San Diego, which sets new state record. By luck, we happened to have someone there who could provide details about the historical milestone. We also have updated our exclusive all-time state coaching record […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
This week marks the final group of football players we are honoring for this weekly feature for this season. Next week, we are switching to boys and girls basketball and will be writing one one boy and one girl each for Northern and Southern California. Even though the pickings can be slim for football with […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
The very top of the final state rankings for this season will be determined on Saturday when No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 3 De La Salle play for the CIF Open Division state title. We may have to wait another week, though, for No. 5 on down as No. 5 Folsom isn’t close to...
Preseason Girls BB State Ranks (1-15)
With the multitude of transfers changing the landscape, it took a lot of digging once we got past the first few teams but one thing that didn’t change from the final expanded rankings after last season was the top three teams: Windward of Los Angeles, Archbishop Mitty of San Jose and Pinewood of Los Altos […]
