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FINAL Girls BB State Top 40

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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Boys BB All-State Nominations Part 1

The next Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in boys basketball will be the 40th time they’ve been released. Some of the earliest selections include Jay Bilas (Rolling Hills), Reggie Miller (Riverside Poly) and Kevin Johnson (Sacramento). The process is now beginning for the latest elite lists and it begins with this list. It’s our own virtual […]

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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...

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FINAL Five-Division State FB Ranks

These are the traditional five-division format state rankings that we used to do every week for many years before the CIF state football championships began in 2006. The divisions are based on a combination of league strength, enrollment and competitive equity. In this format, you just won’t see large-enrollment schools in Division 4 or Division...

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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...

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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 […]

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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)

Three teams earning their way in this week as newcomers are all going for CIF state titles: Shasta of Redding, Grace Brethren of Simi Valley and Bishop Diego of Santa Barbara. We also have St. Francis of Mountain View jumping up five spots and San Ramon Valley of Danville going up two. For teams ranked...

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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...

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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...

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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)

With Mater Dei more solid at the top after beating Bishop Gorman, St. John Bosco and Centennial swap spots at No. 2 and No. 3 again and De La Salle also doesn’t move up to No. 3. We also now have all six Trinity League teams from the CIFSS at least in the top 20,...

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