This week’s foursome has been selected also because they weren’t in any CIF section playoff games on Monday night and all four will be going this week — two in section semifinals and two who already have punched their tickets for section title games. Our stops this week are in Cerritos and Hollywood for Southern […]
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SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
This is one of those weeks we aim to have for these honors since we have put in the spotlight one player from four different CIF sections. It’s not always possible, but it worked out this time. Our stops are at Montebello and San Diego for Southern California plus Richmond and Sacramento for Northern California. […]
State Rankings By CIF Divisions
We can’t do divisional state basketball rankings anymore during the regular season because there’s no way to know (thanks to competitive equity seeding) which divisions to place any of these teams. Now that brackets are out, though, we can apply our own rankings system to the teams in both the NorCal and SoCal playoffs and […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Two of those we’re profiling this week for top performances from last week on the hardwood have experience playing for a CIF state championship team. Another of them hopes to get there in the Open Division while another of them could be one of the top ninth-graders in the nation. We hope you enjoy this […]
More Girls BB State Players of Year
While Aquira DeCosta from Stockton St. Mary’s completed a four-year career that is comparable to some previous Ms. Basketball honorees, she didn’t get quite that high after her senior year. Still, she would be this year’s choice as the State Senior of the Year. We also have our other usual selections for top state honors […]
Girls BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for girls basketball. These are the ones for each CIF division and it’s a group that includes a coach who’s won back-to-back CIF state titles plus a coach who earned her 100th career win in a CIF state final.
Girls BB All-State Nominations Part 1
Although the CIF Southern Section has already released its basketball honors, we’re just getting started. This will be the 39th year for the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in girls basketball. The process begins by posting a list of nominees from every CIF section in the state. It’s an honor in and of itself, but the […]
Chino Hills, Serra win CIF crowns
Friday’s games at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento highlighted by the D1 finals, which saw the Huskies and big man Onyeka Okongwu capture their second CIF state title in three years. The Serra girls also won second CIF state title in their third championship appearance in six years. Other state championships earned on Friday […]
Girls BB: Division State Ranks (3rd)
Of the five No. 1 teams that we started out last week with, four of them took home regional titles and are headed to Sacramento for the CIF state finals. Congrats to Serra of Gardena (D1), Redondo Union of Redondo Beach (D2), West Campus of Sacramento (D3) and Sierra Pacific of Hanford (D5). The new...