This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. The biggest news was senior guard Dejah Saldivar of Ontario Christian setting a new girls hoops state record by making 17 three-pointers in one game plus head coach Dave Kleckner in boys hoops becoming the 22nd in state history to...
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FINAL State TOP 40 Boys BB Ranks
As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings, this time covering the shortened 2020-21 spring season. There is not too much movement from our previous weekly update among the Top 25 because there were no NorCal regionals, so many teams played their last game...
Boys BB State Team of Year 2021
After three straight years of Sierra Canyon finishing on top of the state, and in a season unlike any other with no official CIF state champions for the second straight year, this year’s selection is claimed by Centennial of Corona. The Huskies didn’t win a CIF SoCal Open Division title on Saturday night, but No. […]
Boys BB: Public School State TOYs
Inspired by a comment from longtime Etiwanda head coach Dave Kleckner, we went through 50 years of California boys basketball in the long break caused by the pqndemic and selected a Public School State Team of the Year for each season. Kleckner had several teams on the list. And despite the rise of Sierra Canyon...
State Coach of Year: Jonas Honick
With a 700th win this season, with a team from a true small school (320 students) playing up in Division I and reaching the CIF NorCal championship, the time is ripe for the overall State Coach of the Year honor to go to Jonas Honick from Branson of Ross. He’s been chosen before for Division […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Rankings
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...
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...
State Coach of Year: Dave Kleckner
After a summer of uncertainty in which he resigned and then came back with the same job, there is no doubt that Etiwanda’s Dave Kleckner had one of his best seasons. Now the time has come to recognize one of the most respected boys basketball coaches in California as the Cal-Hi Sports State Coach of […]
