It still has to be a De La Salle team at the top and our pick as the Spartans’ best in a close call continues to be from 2001. The big news for this year’s update is Mater Dei of 2017 being elevated all the way to No. 3. Others in this top group include...
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State Super 65: No. 21 to No. 30
The mighty 1927 state champs from Bakersfield and two teams from 2014, De La Salle and Folsom, are featured in this group. Others include Pico Rivera El Rancho 1966 (a mythical national champ) plus the top team on our board from the CIF Central Section. Note: All of the writeups, grid logs, photos and more...
Class of 2020 Football: Staying Strong
As the Class of 2020 departs for college with everyone thinking about all of the usual senior traditions not happening this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic, we’ve already had one Hot 100 final player ranking issued for softball and have now finished it for football. There’s a new No. 1 as this group moves...
All-State Girls BB: Best of Best
Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year Te-hina Paopao of state No. 1 La Jolla Country Day and freshman teammate Breya Cunningham both get onto the top 10 slots for the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State girls basketball teams. Cunningham is not the only freshman to snag one of these elite positions, either. Go inside […]
Coaching: Most CIF State Titles
Here’s a sport-by-sport look at coaches who have won the most CIF state championships in various sports (through 2023 fall season). GIRLS BASKETBALL 7 – Tom Gonsalves, Stockton St. Mary’s (2002-2015) 6 – Kevin Kiernan, Fullerton Troy & Santa Ana Mater Dei (2003-2012) 6 – Doc Scheppler, Los Altos Hills Pinewood (1999-2014) 6 – Carl...
Boys BB All-State Nominees (Updated)
We released the first run-through of names on our virtual board of all-state boys basketball nominees more than three weeks ago, and now we’re about to start honoring the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams. More players were added and some other fixes had to be made plus we’ve gone in and selected all new...
Ms. Basketball State POY Finalists
These five players can be considered finalists to be considered for the Ms. Basketball honoree for California for 2020. Look for the winner to be announced several days after we have honored the annual State Coach of the Year. We like to write up finalists before doing the actual Ms. Basketball feature since it can […]
NEW State Top 25 Softball Rankings
There are not as many changes to this week’s new State Top 25 in softball, but like baseball we also wanted to wait until hearing what the CIF and its sections might do for spring championships on Tuesday before releasing these rankings. These are not final, and even if at a later date the CIF...
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
The CIF stayed true to its message about competitive equity when it released its boys basketball state regional pairings with the state’s top teams in both NorCal and SoCal receiving byes. This model also created a situation where all of the six participants in the SoCal open division are from the massive CIF Southern Section,...
Boys/Girls BB Pairings Reactions
There is some shock in the basketball community with all of the first-round byes for the Open Divisions, but with the way the results came in for the entire season so far and with the rise of competitive equity as an overriding factor in the seedings for all CIF playoff sports, it was a direction […]
