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...
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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 […]
State School: Cathedral Catholic
It’s not just that this school was the only one in the state during the 2016-17 school year to win CIF state titles in three different sports. The other reasons that the Dons end up with their first-ever overall state sports excellence honor is how well they did in a myriad of other sports and […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
Brandon McCoy of San Diego Cathedral Catholic says don’t forget about me with 41-point playoff game, younger sister of D1 college running back scores 28 points in playoff game, Jonny DeLuca of Agoura gets six hits in first game and two different girls start out their softball seasons by hitting two home runs in their […]
Boys BB: Updated ’17 Player Rankings
We tip off our boys basketball coverage for the 2016-17 school year for Gold Club VIPs with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class, beginning with seniors (2017). Our post-summer Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 will be updated at least once during the season and we’ll come back and publish our final...
More State Schools of the Year
Baseball and wrestling No. 1 finishes spark Buchanan of Clovis to School of the Year choice for boys sports only. Great Oak of Temecula, meanwhile, gains the nod for girls sports only. Other schools gaining overall statewide sports excellence accolades for 2015-16 include Mira Costa of Manhattan Beach (D2), Cathedral Catholic of San Diego (D3), […]
Boys BB: Final ’17 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a final look at the state’s top college prospects in the junior (2017) class. Our final 2017 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 for the 2015-16 school year shows six newcomers since our winter edition. Our final 2015-16 rankings for the 2018 and 2019 classes will be...
Boys BB: All-State Best of Best
It’s finally time to present the 38th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state elite boys basketball teams. These are the teams selected regardless of CIF division or year in school. This is a look at the 10 players named first team overall. Lonzo Ball and T.J. Leaf are joined by one junior and we think at least […]
More State Boys Players of the Year
We choose honorees for seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division. Among the most difficult picks was for freshmen (which one from Chino Hills?) and for those divisions in which players from Open Division teams were deemed eligible. Brandon McCoy of San Diego Cathedral Catholic also emerges as the State Junior of […]
Going Inside Open Division QFs
The state’s No. 2 ranked boys basketball team and the state’s No. 3 ranked girls squad both got knocked off on Friday night in their very first CIF Open Division regional quarterfinal games. Here’s where to go for a statewide breakdown of all of the results plus leading individual performances.
