After all of the boys teams were completely released last Sunday, we’re now starting on the girls and like the boys it is the 45th annual year of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. This first set of teams is for the most outstanding juniors, sophomores and freshmen in the state. While this is...
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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 […]
Girls BB CIF State Previews & Picks
It was sub-par year for us doing predictions of state finals last year at 9-3 after a 11-1 showing from 2022. It’s time to take a crack at the 2024 lineup of games for girls basketball that will be played this weekend at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. We do this with respect to […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
It’s no coincidence that three of the four California players chosen for the West squad in this year’s McDonald’s All-American Game are from the top three teams in these rankings, and the fourth is from a school that has produced the most girls to play in the prestigious event. As things shake out and as...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25
For these first in-season rankings, we have a whole lot of changes once we get past the top 10 and that’s to be expected in this day and age of transfers and the fact freshmen are having a bigger impact in recent years. The first four spots stayed the same and they likely will through...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. We have several players from a 70-64 game in which the winning team had two 200-yard rushers and...
All-State Boys BB 2023: 2nd & 3rd Tms
Here’s the place to see all of the writeups for those who have been selected second team overall and third team overall on the 44th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Teams. The teams feature a terrific crop of underclassmen who could make 2023-24 one of the best seasons in recent memory. For the all-time...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The CIF Southern Section playoff brackets have been announced with games on weekdays that are beginning this week except the Open Division where action does not start until Saturday. The Open Division seedings matched last week’s rankings for all but the No. 8 seed and now we’ve brought that team in as a newcomer. Rosary...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
There were plenty of results to pour over, but when this week’s boys basketball State TOP 25 was set, there is only one huge change and two newcomers to the industry’s longest running state (or national) high school rankings. In this special MLK edition, state power Mater Dei falls, but did the Monarchs fall all...
