Football isn’t quite over but traditionally this is the week we shift gears from the gridiron to the hard-court of the gymnasium and begin our weekly boys and girls basketball honors. For our first week, we also always remind basketball fans that for the Players of the Week features in all sports the CIF Central […]
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Preseason Boys BB Ranks (Part 2)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we are doing it with a preseason Top 40 of the best boys teams from all across the state. This group is led by No. 16 Cathedral Catholic of San Diego and includes the rest of these teams down to No. 40 St. Joseph […]
Girls BB All-State Nominees Part 1
Like the boys several days ago, we are beginning the process toward selection of the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in girls basketball with this first list of those honored as nominees. Some of the earliest selections include Cheryl Miller (Riverside Poly 1982), Violet Palmer (Compton 1982) and Lisa Leslie (Inglewood Morningside soph 1988). […]
FINAL Girls BB State Top 40
There were no real huge surprises in the final rankings, and a lot of that has to do with our nearly 40 years of rankings always using our form of competitive equity, only over the years we’ve referred to it as “a body of work.” So coming into the final rankings, the top teams were...
Mr. Basketball, Ms. Basketball Finalists
As is our custom, we like to release at least four and often more finalists among those who are being considered the most strongly for the annual Mr. Basketball and Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year selection. In some years it’s more obvious who’s going to get the final nods, but in other years […]
Boys BB All-State Nominees Part 1
This is a milestone year for the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in boys basketball since it marks the 40th one that we have done, beginning with the work of founder Nelson Tennis, continuing all these years with editor Mark Tennis and greatly enhanced in the last 15 years by associate editor Ronnie Flores. We now […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
This is the last week in which we’re honoring basketball players for 2018-19 school year. They all had games on the evening in which these selections were done & come from schools in Anaheim, West Hills, Fresno & Oakland. We hope you enjoy this free story on Cal-Hi Sports.com. For our final State Top 20 […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
Now is when the rubber really meets the road as the drive to the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento for the March 8-9 state championships begins this week. There were not a lot of surprises in the Open Division selections for Northern California since we knew with a lack of Open Division level teams in...
Girls BB State Record Updates
We received a request recently from a prominent coach to look into a new category and have determined the best in state history for players with the most varsity career wins. It ended up being a trip down memory lane checking out the four-year records for some of the best players in state history and...
