The theme of the CIF state championships in Division 1 on Friday at the Golden Center for both boys & girls was about longtime successful coaches winning their first state crowns. The Damien of La Verne boys also broke a streak of five straight wins for Northern California teams and showed the gap between the […]
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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The dominance of the Southern California teams in the preseason and then the first rankings in early December has been tempered after the results of the Nike TOC and the West Coast Jamboree, but SoCal still claims the first three spots. After that we have some movement with a couple of Northern California teams making...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
After studying all the results of the holiday tournaments, there are two newcomers to the first boys basketball State Top 25 rankings of 2022. The difficult part is not identifying the top teams, but making sense of which teams were not at full strength against key foes or had to drop out of holiday tournaments...
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
It should be an edge for teams from Southern California playing at Saddleback College this weekend on Friday & Saturday, but a bulk of the teams from Northern California playing at home on Saturday in Divisions 3-AA down to 7-A figure to win and some by multi-score margins. FOR GOLD CLUB ARCHIVES OF OUR FINAL […]
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...
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
Lack of action may be a factor in some of the Northern California squads not being real sharp yet as some have only played two games, and some still none, while teams in the CIF Southern, San Diego and Central Sections have played as many as 16 games. No. 1 Mater Dei was especially sharp...
Girls BB: First Look State TOP 25
Trying to do a first state ranking with a huge portion of Northern California still not in action, with some still finalizing schedules is difficult to say the least. But we wanted to take a stab at it before two of the top teams in Northern California square off on Wednesday when Archbishop Mitty (San […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
As the funnel narrows to its slimmest of margins, the head to head results of the CIF regional playoffs don’t exactly coincide with the seedings or the rankings. The result is we are sticking with the formula we’ve used successfully for nearly 40-years of ranking girls basketball and the result is the top spots are...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
There is no change in the top two spots this week and barring an upset of Sierra Canyon in an early round of pool play in the newly formatted CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs or of Archbishop Mitty in its remaining four West Catholic Athletic League games there shouldn’t be a change for at...
