If there was any doubt that Sierra Canyon’s multi-talented Juju Watkins shouldn’t be considered one of California’s all-time great players, her now being a repeat winner as Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year ends that doubt. The accomplishment puts her in a group with some of the best players in women’s hoops history, especially […]
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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The seedings are in and there weren’t any surprises when it came to the CIF Southern and Northern Regional Open Division other then the fact there really aren’t enough open-level teams to properly seed an eight-team bracket, so the CIF contracted it to just about the bare minimum by seeding only 10 teams total, five...
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
This week’s rankings go down the line in the CIF Open Divisions with those 14 teams, seven each in the Southern and Northern Regional playoffs. From there comes the teams that are in the NorCal and SoCal Division I bracket, but not in the exact order of the seedings. The top three teams stay the...
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
Lack of action may be a factor in some of the Northern California squads not being real sharp yet as some have only played two games, and some still none, while teams in the CIF Southern, San Diego and Central Sections have played as many as 16 games. No. 1 Mater Dei was especially sharp...
UPDATED Girls BB State Team Records
Since we hadn’t gone through all of our files and posted all of these state record categories before on this site, it took some time to compile all of them. But here they are. All updated girls basketball state records in the team categories. We’ll have the individuals coming next week. Amazing totals from great...
State Coach of Year: Vanessa Nygaard
Hopefully there will never be another high school basketball season like the one the Coronavirus ended prematurely, but nonetheless the awards go on, and despite falling just short of qualifying for the CIF Open Division state championship, this year’s State Coach of the Year is unquestionably one of the top coaches in the state and […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
While the teams in the CIF Southern Section Open Division were beating each other in what is arguably the toughest non-state championship playoff bracket in the nation, we still have to find out if the favorites will prevail in the new CIF North Coast Section Open Division. State top-ranked La Jolla Country Day still looks...
