As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2021-22 season, the first with CIF state championships since 2018-19. There is not a lot of movement from our previous weekly Top 25 update, but NorCal teams don’t drop much because of Modesto Christian’s...
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Girls BB State Team of Year 2022
It’s an obvious situation to list our annual State Team of the Year in girls hoops as the same as the CIF Open Division state champion. After COVID wiped out the 2020 and 2021 championships, however, this year’s honoree, Sierra Canyon, also represents a return to normalcy. The Trailblazers also just happen to be same […]
Girls BB: CIF Saturday Finals
When the CIF last staged staged state championships in basketball in 2019, the Open Division girls champion was Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth. Much has changed in the world since then due to COVID, but the Trailblazers have returned to the top of California girls hoops with an impressive win over Archbishop Mitty of San Jose. […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The pecking order for this week’s next to last rankings was set with the Monday morning release of the Girls BB: State Rankings By Division so these rankings will mirror them. Now we explain it. There were some changes in the top 14 spots which belong to Open teams and there was some movement after...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Orange Lutheran, as expected, takes over at No. 1 after winning PBR tournament. Others moving up include new No. 2 Yucaipa, new top 10 Corona, new No. 11 Bullard of Fresno and newcomers Palo Alto & Rancho Bernardo. All top 25 teams written up with highlights, 10 more teams have been ranked in order and...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
There were some terrific matchups last week, but the only changes are at the bottom of this week’s boys basketball State Top 25 rankings as the post-season nears. A couple of close games could have altered the rankings significantly if the underdogs pulled out victories, but in most instances the higher ranked teams won. Newcomers...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
Top-ranked Sierra Canyon and No. 2 Corona Centennial continue to show some separation from the rest of the state’s boys basketball elites. Can new No. 3 Campolindo join that exclusive company as the season wears on and will any other SoCal team step up to challenge the big two? There are five newcomers from the...
Boys BB: 2021-22 Transfer Rundown
Here’s a quick-hitting list of transfers that will impact this year’s boys basketball state rankings. It’s been a hectic off-season and we offer a rundown of where some of California’s elite players ended up, including some who left the state, and some who just transferred as recently as the past month. Look for our preseason Cal-Hi […]
