The six finalists for Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year are joined by 24 others on the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams regardless of CIF division or class. This year’s first team has six seniors, three juniors and a lone sophomore. Two are from the same team. For the all-time archive of every […]
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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 […]
CIF Basketball Picks & Previews
Here are the predicted scores, what to watch for and more for each of the 12 CIF boys and girls basketball state championship games coming up this weekend in Sacramento. We will focus most on the Open Division and Division I, but also have the picks for each of the other divisions too. Last year, […]
Girls BB: Pinewood keeps climbing
Los Altos Hills school wins Platinum Division at the West Coast Jamboree with a slug-it-out victory over Salesian of Richmond in title game matchup of two state top 10 squads. The elite division at one of the state’s top tournaments also concluded on Saturday with state No. 9 Carondelet of Concord taking third-place and with […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
The state No. 2 Pinewood of Los Altos Hills girls often get “the Jump” on opponents with their Stanford-bound sharpshooter. She’s joined as a NorCal Player of the Week by a promising sophomore from Carmel. For SoCal, high-scoring junior Clark Slajchert of Oak Park and athletic forward DeMariyah McGee from Rancho Verde of Moreno Valley […]
Girls BB: All-State Best of Best 2018
The four finalists for Ms. Basketball are joined by 26 others on the 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams regardless of CIF division or class. This year’s first team only has three seniors but it’s loaded with six juniors and in a rare occurrence one freshman. We’re lucky to have covered some of the greatest […]
Girls BB: All-State Underclass 2018
It’s time to start getting out the various teams for the 39th annual edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. This is a look at the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. It will be for Gold Club members only. The post for all-state teams according to CIF divisions will...
Pinewood, Windward win Open titles
It’s a stunner in the CIF NorCal Open Division girls basketball championship as Pinewood of Los Altos Hills goes to three overtimes to knock off previously unbeaten state No. 1 and national No. 1 Archbishop Mitty of San Jose. In the CIF SoCal Open title game, Windward of Los Angeles takes down defending Open Division […]
Final Fours For CIF Open Hoops Set
For the boys, new state No. 1 Sierra Canyon goes overtime for the second time in a little more than two weeks to beat No. 2 Bishop Montgomery. Etiwanda, Bishop O’Dowd and Sheldon also move on. For the girls, there won’t be a No. 1 vs. No 2 state matchup in the NorCal final as […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
With this week’s playoffs now going on in all sections of the state and for all teams in the state rankings, it’s hard to believe the CIF Southern Section Open Division is already down to just four teams in the hunt for the championship. Including the four teams that lost in last Saturday’s quarterfinals, all...