Norco knocks off Etiwanda from No. 1 ranking to create move up for idle Los Alamitos. Both Norco and Los Al and No. 2 Mission Viejo will all be in this week’s Michelle Carew Classic. Many of the top teams in NorCal, meanwhile, will be at the Livermore Stampede. Note: There are not going to...
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FINAL Boys BB Division State Ranks
Putting all of the CIF state champions in the No. 1 position is the easy part (but even that is arguable in one instance). For our final divisional state rankings, we also expand by at least five teams in all divisions. Among those moving up are Alemany of Mission Hills (D1), Archbishop Mitty (D2), Weston...
Girls Open Division: Super 8s
After all of the Friday and Saturday section finals, here would be the eight girls basketball teams in Northern California and the eight in Southern California that we’d pick for the Open Divisions. The first five positions in the North and first two in the South should be easy, but even No. 3 in the […]
Girls BB Rankings By Divisions
As the section playoffs reach critical stages this week and teams stamp their tickets for the upcoming NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs, here’s a breakdown of how certain teams stack up in projected CIF state divisions. We also project which eight teams in the North and which eight teams in the South are on track...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
It’s that time of the year when the CIF Southern Section gets a jump on some of the other larger sections such as the CIF Sac-Joaquin, North Coast and Central Coast sections that were either still in league play or in league playoffs at the start of this week. In a CIFSS league playoffs last...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
It’s a bit of a shame this year as the playoffs approach is that it’s not looking like the top two teams in the state will play in the CIF Open Division title game. Usually this is because the top two are in the south, but this year the top three girls teams are in...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
The theme of this week is make room for Windward, which we had to do after wins over both Sierra Canyon and Bishop’s. The other theme for nine of the teams in this week’s State Top 20 is travel safe to Stockton since the MLK Showcase hosted by No. 1 St. Mary’s has become gigantic....
State Stat Stars of the Week
We include some big-time efforts from players who have already led their teams this week to major national invitational titles such as Lonzo Ball (Chino Hills) and Aquira DeCosta (Stockton St. Mary’s). Others lighting up scorebooks include Johnny McWilliams of San Marcos and Junior Ballard of Lathrop for boys plus Janelle Sumilong of Hanford and […]
Preseason Girls BB Ranks (1-15)
With all five starters back from a team that won the CIF Open Division state crown, St. Mary’s of Stockton is easy choice as preseason No. 1 for the state to start the 2015-16 season. It’s not even that hard to choose No. 2 and No. 3, either, as both Chaminade of West Hills and […]
All-State Softball: First Team
In some years, we have had to scramble to list the mininum of three outfielders. A great crop of outfielders this year (seven in all made it), however, forced us to go with lower totals in other positions. Here’s finally our own prep version of a super 30 all-star squad of the top California girls […]
