Several days after starting the boys all-state team selections, we’re going to begin with the girls. This is the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams and it starts with a look at the best of the best among juniors, sophomore and freshmen. It’s not a recruiting list so keep that in mind while...
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More Boys BB State Players of Year
Here’s where to go to see the Cal-Hi Sports 2019 honorees for seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division. Unlike Mr. Basketball, there are no repeat honorees, but this time there was no senior of the year. The hardest decisions were to have to pick one of two dynamic juniors leading a […]
Boys BB: CIF Friday Finals
Chino Hills and standout big man Onyeka Okongwu make it three state titles in the last four years with victory against James Logan of Union City in Division I championship. It wasn’t easy, though, as a foul-marred contest saw numerous starters foul out, including Okongwu. We also have recaps and photos from La Jolla Country […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
The old expression “the cream rises to the top” could not be more appropriate than in describing the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs because after all the grousing and social media complaints about the pool play format, the teams that were seeded No. 1 in each pool went 3-0, although each of their wins...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the first time in this honors’ program history, we’ve chosen two players from great games played on a Saturday who then had their teams play against each other on a Monday. That can only happen on MLK weekend. For the boys, we were more normal going with hair-raising scoring outputs from players representing regions […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
With so many top teams in action against each other last week or over the MLK weekend playing top-notch competition, it was thought there could be a shakeup for this week’s rankings, and there is, with the biggest change being for the third straight week there is a new leader at the top of the...
St. Mary’s MLK Day 1 Highlights
Four of the six State Top 20 teams that played on Saturday at the St. Mary’s of Stockton Martin Luther King Girls Basketball Showcase were not able to get into the win column, but none of the results could really be called all that surprising.
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
To the Victor go the spoils and this week that means our NorCal Boys Player of the Week is Dailen Victor from Chavez of Stockton, who has 43 and 47 points in back-to-back games. We also honor a 2,000-point career scorer from San Diego and two girls, one from Brentwood the other from Simi Valley, […]
Preseason Girls BB Ranks (16-40)
There ended up being 10 new teams that were not this high in the state rankings at the finish of the 2017-18 season. The CIF San Diego Section snagged four of the spots taken by newcomers. We don’t have a bubble list with this set of preseason rankings, but trust us that a lot of […]