Our weekly honors switch this week from football to boys and girls basketball where it’s usually the case that we’re looking for tournament MVPs. The two boys winners definitely fit that description from the Gridley Invitational Basketball Tournament and that Father Barry Classic in Carmichael. For the girls, we have a top returnee from a […]
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Preseason Boys BB Ranks (Part 2)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we are doing it with a preseason Top 40 of the best boys teams from all across the state. This group is led by No. 16 Corona Centennial and includes the rest of teams down to No. 40 Archbishop Mitty of San Jose, plus […]
Girls BB: All-State Best of Best 2018
The four finalists for Ms. Basketball are joined by 26 others on the 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams regardless of CIF division or class. This year’s first team only has three seniors but it’s loaded with six juniors and in a rare occurrence one freshman. We’re lucky to have covered some of the greatest […]
Girls BB: All-State Underclass 2018
It’s time to start getting out the various teams for the 39th annual edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. This is a look at the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. It will be for Gold Club members only. The post for all-state teams according to CIF divisions will...
More Boys BB State Players of Year
Here’s where to go to see the Cal-Hi Sports 2018 selections for seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division. The most difficult choices ended up for the freshmen and for Division IV. We also had to choose a senior of the year for the first time since 2012 since this year’s Mr. […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
The final eight for the CIF Open Division is set, and after the way it shook out those eight teams have risen to the final eight spots for the state rankings and will stay there, although it might not be in the same position for the final rankings as we have them in this week’s...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
We do and always have done the Cal-Hi Sports state rankings (more than 35 years) independent to whatever seemingly yearly changing system the CIF uses to do its regional playoff seedings. After seeing some of the placements this time, one can only hope they will get the kinks out of a system that needs fixing....
Winners/Losers in CIF Open Brackets
We go over each of the two boys and girls Open Division playoff brackets (both north and south) released on Sunday and present our breakdowns of which teams fared well and which teams did not. As the Open Division continues to evolve, it will be interesting to see if the CIF Southern Section will ever...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
There were no major upsets among the top teams going into this week’s semifinals and finals of the CIF section playoffs with ranked teams, but there was a State Top 20 team that lost in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. The injury bug also has bitten and at this stage of the season that can change...
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
We finally hit the week where the tougher competition in the playoffs causes some major changes in our weekly State Top 20, including at the very top. With Bishop Montgomery going down in the CIFSS Open Division playoffs, read on to see why Salesian of Richmond gets the nod as the new No. 1 in...
