As is often the case with respect to the top teams in the Open Division for California girls basketball the key word is “rematches.” This year is another perfect example. The CIF Southern Regional championship on Tuesday will be a third meeting of the two teams this season while the Northern Regional title game is...
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NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The first nine spots remain intact this week but after that there are a lot of changes with only one team in the next 21 spots holding onto the same spot it had in last week’s rankings. Having seen seven of the top 10 teams and 24 of the TOP 30 in live action, we...
Boys BB: Final ’25 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a final look this school year at the state’s top college prospects in the junior (2025) class. Our 2025 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows 13 newcomers and plenty of movement. Our final 2023-24 rankings for the 2026 and 2027 classes will be published by...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
This week the top eight spots stay put but after that only seven of the next 17 teams retained their position from the last rankings. There was only one newcomer in the top 25 and one in the next 10 teams ranked. One thing is fairly clear, and that is after the first three teams...
Nike TOC Title Goes To Mitty
Girls from San Jose win the elite division in nation’s most prestigious tournament over the defending champion, the team they lost to in the quarterfinals last year, and now in line to take over No. 1 national ranking. Sophomore McKenna Woliczko named MVP. Ontario Christian also gets win over Mater Dei in top division. Windward […]
Girls Cali Live 23: Top Player Ranks
Connecticut-committed Morgan Cheli from Archbishop Mitty of San Jose and Brazilian transplant and newfound phenom Taissa “Tissa” Queiroz of Santa Rosa Cardinal Newman were the top two players among some pretty impressive talent that performed for around 75 college coaches at the Roebbelen Center in Roseville two weeks ago. We have starting top five, next...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It turns out that both of the girls featured for this week had performances that were seen in person by Cal-Hi Sports, although we cheated a bit for one of them since there was a Tuesday game from this week involved. In the end, the four honorees represent El Dorado County, Sonoma County in the […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
Scrambling to get state rankings done after the MLK weekend has always been a challenge, and in fact there were a slew of games on MLK Day on Monday that were impactful. The CIF Southern Section did pick up a couple of teams by snagging this week’s two of this week’s newcomers, both from Los...
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 […]
