As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final Top 40 overall girls basketball team rankings, this time covering the 2017-18 season. We don’t go by computers but by eyeballs and more than 35 years experience ranking and evaluating teams. That experience also has shown us that final No. 1 teams for a...
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NEW Softball State Top 20
It could have been three different teams that could have been the new No. 1 in this week’s State Top 20, but the pick went to the next highest in line as Cathedral Catholic of San Diego moved up from No. 2. Previous No. 1 Norco lost to new No. 3 Lutheran of Orange in...
FINAL State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
CIF state champions St. Francis of Mountain View (up one) and Bishop Diego of Santa Barbara (up seven) both get bumps for the final rankings of the season. Others moving up are Oakdale, Tulare and Jesuit of Carmichael. There also are two new teams in the final State Top 50 and for the final rankings...
Mater Dei: 126th State Team of Year
With the CIF Open Division state championship eliminating all rankings debate, adding the annual champion to the all-time State Team of the Year list is just one of the added bonuses. We have a feeling that CIF Southern Section teams Mater Dei and St. John Bosco might be trading this selection between each other for […]
CIF Bowl Boards 8 (North & South)
There are eight new teams listed on our SoCal board this week and there are three in the north. We’re now just a few days away, of course, from finding out from the CIF which teams are going to match up against each other after Friday and Saturday section finals. Granite Bay in the north...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This week’s highest newcomer is unbeaten La Costa Canyon at No. 43, partly because the Mavericks have a showdown looming against No. 16 Mission Hills. Other newcomers are Sacramento High and Clovis West. We also have Oakdale going up to No. 31 after beatng Manteca and Milpitas going up to No. 38 after beating Wilcox...