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 and NorCal open contender Branson of Ross and includes the rest of these teams down to No. 40 […]
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CIF State Basketball Picks & Previews
As is another custom of ours going back more than 30 years, here are the predicted scores, what to watch for and more for each of the 12 CIF boys and girls basketball state title games this weekend in Sacramento. This is done with the best of wishes for all 24 teams, but the goal […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
We had our first big shakeup among the top seven teams when the upset bug bit in the CIF Central Section, but it might not be as big of a shakeup as some might think. In the CIF Southern Section, the eight teams in the Open Pool play bracket are starting to take shape in...
All-State Football Noms (Central-LA-SD)
Here are the final group of nominees for our upcoming Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. This third group covers the CIF Central, L.A. City and San Diego Sections. This will be the 44th consecutive season for these teams being done, which is why they are more prestigious than any others. The previous groups were from […]
Preseason Girls BB State Ranks (21-40)
This group of leading girls hoops teams in the state for the 2022-23 season is led off by defending CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D1 champion Oak Ridge. We also have a state champion in D2 from last season, a team with a player looking to move up big-time on the all-time career scoring list and at […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
No. 1 Mater Dei & No. 2 St. John Bosco both opened their CIF Southern Section D1 title bids with easy wins. Mission Viejo and Los Alamitos were the other big winners in that bracket. The big stunner of the night was in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section where unbeaten No. 11 St. Mary’s of Stockton […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Corona del Mar of Newport Beach, Madison of San Diego and San Joaquin Memorial of Fresno are all three teams that moved up five spots this week. Edison of Huntington Beach and Apple Valley did even much better than that. Newcomers are Granite Bay, West Ranch of Valencia and Manteca. FOR ARCHIVES OF OUR FINAL...
Preseason State TOP 50 Ranks (31-50)
Nine of the teams in this group did not appear in the final State TOP 50 for the 2021 season. Those teams look good in part due to key transfer quarterbacks — such as at Rancho Cucamonga and Chaminade of West Hills. There also are those with big totals of returning starters such as JSerra […]
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’22 Player Ranks
We continue our boys basketball coverage for the 2021-22 school year for Gold Club VIPs with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class, beginning with seniors (2022). Our Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 has plenty of changes since our last update to close out 2020-21 and we’ll come back and publish our...
Boys BB: All-State Underclass 2021
It’s obviously a strange time compared to every other season, but we begin releasing the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Teams with a look at the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. State Team of the Year Centennial of Corona had four sophomore starters and all four have landed either...
