With so few games being contested in the final week of football playoffs, as has been the tradition with this feature since even before we went to a full slate of CIF regional/state championships, this will be the final week for football players of the week as we switch to basketball. As one would expect, […]
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NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
This is section championship week around the state, as seeds and brackets will be announced for the NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs next Sunday. The big question will be how many teams from the CIF Southern Section are taken for the SoCal open because that will ultimately affect favorites for the CIF D1 state crown...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
This week’s twist is that both of our Southern California honorees are from schools that have Lions as their mascot. This week’s winners also are all still in action in the playoffs (but only one on Tuesday night) and are from Santa Rosa and Fresno in Northern California plus Los Angeles and Westlake Village in […]
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
The basketball world is trying to get back to normal after the death of Kobe Bryant, and perhaps the upcoming post-season high school playoffs will help fans get their minds off the tragic accident. The top four teams in the state remain the same, but the middle of the pack has movement as teams look...
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 […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Rankings
Congrats to all the section champions and those looking to bounce back in the regional as California has reached its “win or go home” portion of the season. As the regional playoffs kick off, our Top 5 remain the same, since our rankings do not always match the NorCal and SoCal regional seedings. There’s one...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Two of those we’re profiling this week for top performances from last week on the hardwood have experience playing for a CIF state championship team. Another of them hopes to get there in the Open Division while another of them could be one of the top ninth-graders in the nation. We hope you enjoy this […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Two of our honorees this week led their state-ranked teams to wins in out-of-state tournaments. One of the others did the same at a major tourney in Modesto while the other rained down points at the West Coast Jamboree. The four are from Stockton, Santa Rosa, Los Angeles and Chatsworth.
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (1-15)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’ll do it with our preseason boys basketball state rankings. It was a hectic summer and fall with player movement, but it’s not hard to predict the team at the top. Players came and went to and from California, left CIF programs, but when it’s all said […]
Boys BB: All-State 2nd, 3rd
Here’s where to go to check out all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Teams. Many of those on second team almost were on first and it’s an elite group that any college coach would love to have. […]
