For boys sports only, St. John Bosco’s finishes in football, boys hoops, baseball and wrestling gain it a second top spot in five years. For the girls, Mater Dei edges Archbishop Mitty. Other schools earning overall state sports excellence honors for 2023-24 are Harvard-Westlake of Studio City (D2), Acalanes of Lafayette (D3), University of San […]
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Boys BB: Salute To Section Champions
There were a lot more boys teams that earned CIF section championships over the weekend besides state No. 1 Harvard-Westlake and the ones we covered on Wednesday in Sacramento. Here’s a roundup of all of the other section champions from around California. Each team deserves to get a mention with all of the others that […]
NorCal / SoCal Players of the Week
This will be the final week for Girls and Boys Basketball Players of the Week as next week we will switch to softball and baseball just as we’ve done every year when the funnel narrows limiting the number of teams in the CIF basketball state playoffs. This week we have four solid honorees from Anaheim […]
More State Schools of the Year
For boys sports only, Mater Dei of Santa Ana is considered tops for the state for 2020-21 despite year of transition in the athletic department. For the girls, Harvard-Westlake is going to be listed alongside its overall State School of the Year selection. Other schools topping the list for overall state sports excellence honors for […]
Boys BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
Overall No. 1 Centennial of Corona leads Open Division teams, but we have No. 1 teams from five other divisions (the same five we’ve done for many years). Those final No. 1 nods go to St. John Bosco (D1), Jesuit of Carmichael (D2), Aquinas of San Bernardino (D3), University of San Francisco (D4) and Kingsburg...
Boys BB: State Ranks By Divisions
Historically, these have been done for many years according to the CIF’s and our own five divisions. For this year, we are combining the teams in the SoCal regional brackets (AA & A) into one division and then injecting where the NorCal teams would fit in based on our own criteria. There are at least […]
Inside The All-State Boys BB Teams
For some reason, we have the time to go over more from the 2019-20 season in California and we couldn’t get everything we learned into all of the various all-state team releases. Go inside to find out some of our toughest choices, names of more top sophomores and freshmen who just missed being all-state but...
