The 35th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State girls basketball teams continues with these 20 players featured prominently on second & third team overall. With so many injuries, there were some girls honored who missed more than a couple of games. Also, comparisons among girls who competed in Open Divisions both at the section and statewide level […]
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FINAL Girls BB Expanded Top 35
Last week we hinted there might be a re-shuffle based on a closer look at all results and more discussion. All-in-all, the first three spots for the 2016-17 season are a slam dunk but after that for the next three it’s basically a three-way tie. Last week we saw it one way and in this...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
By the time your eyes start to glide through these rankings it’s likely San Diego State-bound St. Mary’s (Stockton) senior star Naje Murray will either be playing against crosstown arch rival Lincoln or will have already played in her return from a knee injury suffered early last summer playing club ball. With her back, there’s...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
This is a week when the eyes and mind and ability to analyze makes human rankings the far superior kind when you have nuances. On example is Stockton St. Mary’s beating teams at full strength and then being decimated by injuries and dropping completely out after being national top five to start the season. Another...
Super 8 Girls BB State Ranks Update
There are no changes at the top of this week’s overall pecking order and some of the teams are winning by almost 100-point margins. That will change once the section playoffs get going, which are coming up fast. NOTE: Our updated State Top 20 with expanded writeups of the first eight teams plus the next […]
St. Mary’s MLK Showcase Day 1
Host Rams, who were No. 1 in the nation when they played in their showcase event last year, fell in their Saturday matchup to nationally ranked Centennial of Las Vegas 68-65. That was bad for them, but good for the attention that Monday’s matchup between Centennial and current state/national No. 1 Clovis West of Fresno […]
Girls of Spring: DeCosta and De Rest
For the top girls basketball prospects in the state from the Classes of 2017, 2018 and beyond, Aquira DeCosta from Stockton St. Mary’s reigns as the best. But she’s not the only one that analyst Harold Abend checked out during three springtime NCAA events. Go inside for writeups on the next 10 top prospects, the […]
Girls BB: All-State Underclass
It’s time to begin releasing the teams for the 36th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state girls basketball selections. We’ll start with underclass players. This is the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. Five different schools were able to land three players on this year’s teams: Archbishop Mitty, Clovis West, Long Beach Poly, Pinewood […]
State Hoop Rankings Update
Here’s a quick look at the top 10 teams that will be highlighted in this week’s new Cal-Hi Sports State Top 20 rankings for boys and girls basketball.
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
It didn’t take a buzzer beater for previous No. 19 Santa Barbara to taste defeat, but it sure did for Pinewood of Los Altos Hills. Pinewood thus drops from No. 8 to No. 11 this week with San Diego teams plus Bishop O’Dowd going up. This week’s lone newcomer, meanwhile, is Oak Ridge of El...
