Everyone is a winner who got to play in the first-ever event last weekend at eight different schools in Orange County. The teams that enjoyed winning bracket titles on Sunday at Irvine High included Salesian of Richmond, Archbishop Mitty of San Jose and Centennial of Corona. Senior Carter Bryant and juniors Tounde Yessoufou and Brayden […]
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Mr. Basketball 2023: Husky Repeat
It turned out to be closer than one might have thought with one month to go in the 2023 season, but Jared McCain makes it two in a row for Centennial of Corona having the California Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year. He follows teammate Donovan Dent from last season. He’s just the third […]
FINAL Boys BB State TOP 40 Rankings
As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2022-23 season, the first season with no COVID-19 issues since 2018-19. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 25 update, as teams in strong leagues deserve to move up and more D2...
Boys BB: Saluting Section Champions
State No. 1 team Centennial of Corona wins on a dunk at the buzzer in CIF Southern Section Open Division championship. We also have roundups of other games at the Honda Center in Anaheim and from the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. Every section champion also deserves to get a mention so that’s what this […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State TOP 25, there is some movement and one newcomer, as only one higher seed in the loaded CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs lost at home. The losers in the CIFSS open pool play games don’t really drop as those would be regional level games for teams from...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State Top 25 there is plenty of movement following the result of a big NorCal vs. SoCal contest played at the State Preview Classic at Colony High School. There are also two newcomers, one from the North and one from the South, from traditional power leagues in each region....
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
There were plenty of results to pour over, but when this week’s boys basketball State TOP 25 was set, there is only one huge change and two newcomers to the industry’s longest running state (or national) high school rankings. In this special MLK edition, state power Mater Dei falls, but did the Monarchs fall all...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
Most of the state’s ranked boys basketball teams won last week, but it’s not the Harvard-Westlake and Bishop Montgomery triple OT classic that causes changes to this week’s State Top 25, it’s St. John Bosco’s road win over Trinity League kingpin Mater Dei. There are two new teams at the bottom of the rankings, including...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
Top-ranked Corona Centennial and No. 2 Harvard-Westlake will be tough to beat, while new boys basketball State Top 25 No. 3 West Ranch of Valencia has a chance to make a major statement at the Tarkanian Classic and The Classic at Damien. Preseason No. 3 Modesto Christian’s slow start and uncertainty about players also means...
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (1-15)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’ll do it with our preseason boys basketball state rankings. It was a normal summer for the first time since 2019, as the long-term effects of COVID-19 begin to take shape and California deals with its “new” normal. That normal includes the impact that Name, […]