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Girls BB: Divisional All-State 2018

The announcement of honorees for the 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in girls basketball continues with the breakdown of players from schools placed in divisions according to the CIF state and regional playoffs. Competitive equity seeding has made determining which division to place each player even more complicated. In short, they aren’t the same […]

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FINAL All-State Boys BB Nominee List

With the players and coaches of the year honors handed out, we’re now going into the final days of selecting the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State boys basketball teams. There will be one super elite first team, second team and third team of 10 players each and then top teams of underclass and for each...

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Ms. Basketball 2018: It’s got Charisma

If there were ties or co-players of the year, this would be the perfect year for it. But in the history of the Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year honor, which goes back to the early 1970s, there are no co-players. And there are none in any other state player of the year selection. […]

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FINAL Girls BB State Top 40

As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final Top 40 overall girls basketball team rankings, this time covering the 2017-18 season. We don’t go by computers but by eyeballs and more than 35 years experience ranking and evaluating teams. That experience also has shown us that final No. 1 teams for a...

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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 […]

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Final Fours For CIF Open Hoops Set

For the boys, new state No. 1 Sierra Canyon goes overtime for the second time in a little more than two weeks to beat No. 2 Bishop Montgomery. Etiwanda, Bishop O’Dowd and Sheldon also move on. For the girls, there won’t be a No. 1 vs. No 2 state matchup in the NorCal final as […]

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Girls BB: Top seeds roll in CIF Open

Unlike the boys, there were hardly any stunners in the first round of the CIF Open Division girls basketball state playoffs, which began on Friday across the state. The top four seeds all won in the Southern California bracket of eight teams. The only top four seed in Northern California to fall was No. 4 […]

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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....

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Girls BB Open Division Projections

After all CIF section girls basketball champions are crowned by Saturday night, it’ll only take a few minutes before many in the media and some coaches will start to think about Sunday when the CIF state office will release its pairings for the upcoming Northern California and Southern California regional playoffs. We start thinking seriously […]

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Boys BB Open Division Projections

After all CIF section boys basketball champions are crowned by Saturday night, it’ll only take a few minutes before many in the media and some coaches will start to think about Sunday when the CIF state office will release its pairings for the upcoming Northern California and Southern California regional playoffs. We start thinking seriously […]

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