This is one of two inside looks at the leading seniors from the Class of 2021 who would have to be the top senior contenders to be Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year. They will be teammates soon at Stanford, which will be playing in the Final Four on Friday in San Antonio. Go […]
Latest News
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
De La Salle and Servite flip-flop at No. 3 and No. 4, but there are no other changes in the top 10 even though both Cathedral Catholic and Sierra Canyon deserve to go up. This week’s two major movers are Rocklin from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and Buchanan from the CIF Central Section. Nice bumps...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
As No. 1 St. John Bosco and No. 3 Servite get ready to face off later this week, the team making the biggest move is new No. 20 Los Alamitos, which scored 35 points in one quarter of a win against 2019 CIF D2-AA state champ Corona del Mar. Both Cathedral Catholic and St. Augustine...
State FB Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
For the next few weeks, we’ll treat Friday nights and the weekends like we do for the fall with the compilation of a weekend scoreboard involving the state’s top-ranked teams. Highest ranked team to lose Friday was Helix (La Mesa). In biggest game between ranked teams, Serra of San Mateo topped Valley Christian of San […]
Preseason State TOP 50 (Part 1)
These are the ones with more than 45 years of work behind them, but it’s so different for this spring season. Factors such as which teams are playing which teams and building a consensus of those who do local rankings will be more important in compiling these rankings than when it’s known there are going […]
Insider Report: Mater Dei (Santa Ana)
We are continuing with a series of girls basketball preseason-style features on some of the state’s most prominent programs and players for the 2020-21 school year. It’s almost been one year since any of them have played and it may end up being until December of 2021 for some. We hope that isn’t the case, […]
Up Close with No. 1 Coaching Leader
It’s been two seasons since Santa Ana Mater Dei’s Kevin Kiernan became the winningest coach in California girls basketball history. Up next will be 900 wins and perhaps 1,000 — counting wins he had in boys basketball earlier in his career. Go inside to see what career Kiernan began doing, what prominent prep sportswriter used […]
Boys BB Schools of Century (So Far)
Going by a points system based on final state top 20 rankings since the 1999-2000 school year and matching previous posts for schools of the century (so far) plus football, girls basketball, softball and baseball, here’s the final list of this series for boys basketball. The No. 1 total, by a wide margin, was compiled...
Class of 22 FB: Updated Hot 100
No reason to change anything for the top few positions, but there has been one major transfer and some others who’ve had to be added and/or moved up for doing well in showcase events. Two of the top three remain Mater Dei of Santa Ana teammates Domani Jackson and Raleek Brown. RELATED: How Class of...
