Sierra Canyon goes atop the all-time list of State Teams of the Year that extends back to 1972 season. The Trailblazers also may still be able to get a mythical national title. Even if that doesn’t happen after all of the final rankings are out and all games played, we say they should consider claiming […]
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NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
As the funnel narrows to its slimmest of margins, the head to head results of the CIF regional playoffs don’t exactly coincide with the seedings or the rankings. The result is we are sticking with the formula we’ve used successfully for nearly 40-years of ranking girls basketball and the result is the top spots are...
Girls BB: New No. 1 For Coach K
Santa Ana Mater Dei’s Kevin Kiernan notches the 762nd win of his girls basketball coaching career Wednesday night at tourney opener in San Diego, which sets new state record. By luck, we happened to have someone there who could provide details about the historical milestone. We also have updated our exclusive all-time state coaching record […]
Girls BB: Nike TOC Nailbiters
Defending CIF Open Division champion Windward of Los Angeles falls in the final minute of the top divisional title game at the nation’s most prestigious girls basketball tournament. In the Joe Smith Division, an all-California final is won by Redondo of Redondo Beach in another heart-stopper by three points against Mater Dei of Santa Ana. […]
Record Updates: Basketball Coaching
In between our announcement of the 2018 State Coach of the Year for girls basketball (which came on Friday) and the 2018 State Coach of the Year for boys basketball (coming Monday), we have updated all of the state coaching records in our exclusive files that include some of the best ever for both genders. […]
State Girls Basketball Coaching Leaders
Welcome to the online Cal-Hi Sports State Record Book & Almanac. This state record list is for most varsity career coaching wins in girls basketball. These totals are for California wins only and do not include out-of-state wins, but that rule is changing for newer coaches. Forfeit wins or losses also are not included. For more...
Hearlihy Wins Add Up: More Than 700
It’s been a strong season so far at Harvard-Westlake with a top four state ranking and on Thursday the Wolverines capped a perfect run through the super-tough Mission League. They’ll now head to the CIF Southern Section Open Division as a co-favorite with Windward of Los Angeles and they’ll do it with a head coach […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
The race for a CIF Open Division state title will enter the section playoffs phase shortly, and in fact next week in the CIF Southern Section. The race for Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year continues as well, and not surprisingly the top three candidates are on the top three teams. A slight shake-up...
State Coaching Records Updated
All five California high school sports that we primarily cover on this web site – football, boys hoops, girls hoops, baseball and softball – now have all of its coaching records updated through the 2015-16 school year. We started doing these updates earlier last week and got word that one of the winningest coaches in […]
State Coach of the Year: Mark Lehman
Longtime leader of boys and girls teams at Cajon of San Bernardino landed CIF Division II state title and gets the nod as state’s leading coach in girls hoops for the 2015-16 season. He’s also the first-ever State Coach of the Year in girls basketball from the Inland Empire.