It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’ll do it with our preseason boys basketball state rankings. There are three big questions heading into the 2024-25 season regarding the use of computer rankings by the CIF Southern Section, the placement of St. Joseph of Santa Maria for the regionals and whether […]
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
We’ve arrived at that point of the season in which Mater Dei and St. John Bosco are playing in their Trinity League showdown. This time it’s MD at No. 1 and SJB at No. 2 in the state (and nation). Orange County teams are still in the 3-4-5 spots since No. 5 Servite’s losses are...
State Super 70: No. 21 to No. 30
We are on a trip overseas this week so there was no games attended on Friday night and there will be no weekly state rankings for one week. Instead, for this week on Saturday we’re continuing with our updated look at the greatest teams in state history. This group starts off with one from St....
What We Saw: Bosco vs Serra
The only player to score more than one touchdown for state No. 2 St. John Bosco of Bellflower on Saturday at Serra of San Mateo (No. 12) in a 56-16 victory was freshman Darren Tubbs in his breakout. The Braves won as expected against a team that played in the last three CIF Open Division...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
A tidal wave splash created by the boys at JSerra (San Juan Capistrano) last Friday with their big win over Sierra Canyon pushes them up to No. 6 in this week’s rankings. It’s an eight spot jump. Centennial (Corona) also stays No. 3 after loss to No. 1 Mater Dei. More big upward moves this...
Boys BB: More State Players of the Year
Here’s where to go to see the Cal-Hi Sports 2024 top honorees for juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division with Open & D1 combined. Three different sophomores have collected a player of the year honor since two of them have been chosen for their CIF divisions.
FINAL Boys BB State TOP 40 Rankings
As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2023-24 season. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 35 update, as CIF Southern Section teams that didn’t make the regional playoffs deserve to move up over some NorCal and SoCal D1...
Friday CIF State Finals
St. John Bosco continues CIF Southern Section domination in D1 and grabs its second state title with hot-shooting win. It’s a seventh state title, meanwhile, for the Bishop Montgomery of Torrance girls in its D1 triumph vs Bishop O’Dowd. Other big winners at the Golden 1 Center were Alemany of Mission Hills (Boys D3), Caruthers […]
Boys BB: NEW Division State Ranks
These have been updated through Saturday night’s regional semifinals. New No. 1 teams are St. John Bosco (D1) and Alemany of Mission Hills (D3). Still No. 1 is Harvard-Westlake (Open), Heritage Christian of Northridge (D2), Cleveland of Reseda (D4) and Athenian of Danville (D5). FOR THE SECOND GIRLS HOOPS DIVISION RANKINGS, CLICK HERE. Note: This...
