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All-State Girls BB: 2nd & 3rd Teams

Here’s the place to see all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. The second team features two freshmen from the same team plus two from state-ranked Clovis West. The third team has two more freshmen and two...

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Insider Report: Archbishop Mitty

After our profile last week of the winningest head coach in California girls basketball history, we’ll continue with a series of 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 […]

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All-State Girls BB: 2nd & 3rd Team

Here’s where to go to check out all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. The second team features two players from NorCal Open Division champion Archbishop Mitty, various area & region players of the year and we...

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Girls BB: All-State Underclass 2020

It’s time to start to get out the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams with a look at the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. CIF Southern Section Open Division titlist Mater Dei of Santa Ana leads the way since all five starters were underclassmen and all five landed on...

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FINAL Girls BB State Top 40 Ranks

We didn’t expect to be starting the final rankings on Sunday, March 16 but thought instead we would be driving home from Sacramento after laying over from the previous night’s CIF state championship games. Unfortunately, the Coronavirus began rearing its ugly head and now all we can do is hope for the best. Had we...

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Salute to Saturday CIF Finalists

There were 11 teams that for sure were supposed to have played on Saturday at the Golden 1 Center in the CIF state basketball championships. There also was a 12th that would have played as NorCal Open Division champion (but that title game wasn’t played either). As a salute to the teams and players we […]

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NorCal/SoCal Open Div. Breakdowns

After all of this weekend’s CIF section championships in basketball are complete, the CIF will meet on Sunday morning to finalize its pairings for this year’s state playoffs. The biggest questions always surround which teams will be in the Open Division and which ones should get a first-round bye. We have both boys and girls...

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NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings

One big difference between rankings, seedings and competitive equity is the last two don’t take into consideration the nuances that can take place during a season like injuries, family emergencies and coaching changes in mid-season. Other situations also can arise that usually impact but are not created by the girls. We hear all about these...

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NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings

As is always the case, the first set of regular season rankings is different from the preseason, but among the top teams it just meant a bit of a shuffle, although many of the top teams are playing in either the Nike TOC top division of a tournament that begins on Wednesday, or the 20th...

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Girls of Summer: Recap of all events

Cal Stars goes 51-1 in showing it was the best club team in the nation. Three of the five starters will be at St. Mary’s (Stockton) for the 2017-18 season, but it was a deep, talented roster for head coach Kelly Sopak. Go inside this report for more of how California’s top girls hoopers and […]

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