The major tournaments in girls’ basketball for California teams begin this week with most of the top teams heading to the Nike TOC in Phoenix. From there some will come to the East Bay/Concord area for the 160-team West Coast Jamboree. For these updated rankings, six-time state champ Long Beach Poly is missing for the […]
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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This week’s highest newcomer is unbeaten La Costa Canyon at No. 43, partly because the Mavericks have a showdown looming against No. 16 Mission Hills. Other newcomers are Sacramento High and Clovis West. We also have Oakdale going up to No. 31 after beatng Manteca and Milpitas going up to No. 38 after beating Wilcox...
Girls BB Final Divisional Rankings
In conjunction with our final, expanded State Top 35 rankings, we also are releasing our final divisional state rankings for girls basketball. We have expanded each division by five teams and we list teams to watch for the 2017-18 season. Teams getting moved up for the final rankings include Brea Olinda of Brea (D1), Chaminade...
Girls Hoops State Team of Year 2017
If there was ever a team to serve as the prime example of one that could come completely back from a nightmarish outing, then it’s this year’s girls at Clovis West. They didn’t just lose to Centennial of Las Vegas at the St. Mary’s MLK Showcase in Stockton in January, they were throttled. By the […]
Girls BB Divisional State Rankings
California’s No. 1 teams according to our rankings heading into the CIF state championships continue to be Archbishop Mitty of San Jose (Open), Windward of Los Angeles (D1), Mater Dei of Santa Ana (D2), Campolindo of Moraga (D3), West Campus of Sacramento (D4) and Eastside Prep of East Palo Alto (D5). If you can’t see...
Super 8 Girls BB State Ranks Update
Pinewood avenges a loss to Bishop O’Dowd and has now joined the top five while looming and seemingly ready for a NorCal Open Division showdown against state No. 1 Archbishop Mitty is 2015 Open Division state champ St. Mary’s of Stockton. NOTE: Our updated State Top 20 with expanded writeups of the first eight teams […]
Girls BB Divisional State Rankings
All 16 teams are listed in the Open Division followed by top 10s for each of the five CIF state divisions. Our No. 1 teams heading into first-round games are Archbishop Mitty of San Jose (Open), Windward of Los Angeles (D1), Mater Dei of Santa Ana (D2), Campolindo of Moraga (D3), West Campus of Sacramento...
Super 8 Girls BB State Ranks Update
Harvard-Westlake pins 11-point defeat on one-loss Etiwanda in earning trip to CIF Southern Section Open Division finals opposite state No. 3 Long Beach Poly. The Wolverines also move up to No. 8 in this week’s rankings. No. 1 Archbishop Mitty and No. 2 Clovis West, meanwhile, continue to roll in section playoffs. NOTE: Our updated […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
There are actually no new teams that cracked this week’s rankings since the previous rankings even with all of the holiday tournaments. There is plenty of shuffling, however, including a new team at the top plus a big jump for Bishop O’Dowd of Oakland. Fairmont Prep of Anaheim also has joined the top 10. If...
Girls BB: All-State Underclass
It’s time to begin releasing the teams for the 36th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state girls basketball selections. We’ll start with underclass players. This is the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. Five different schools were able to land three players on this year’s teams: Archbishop Mitty, Clovis West, Long Beach Poly, Pinewood […]
