We were going to skip a week but we had some movement due to results at the Matt Denning Nike Hoops Classic and word is starting to come out that some games this week and MLK events like the one at Bishop O’Dowd have been cancelled or postponed. The result is we will do a...
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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The dominance of the Southern California teams in the preseason and then the first rankings in early December has been tempered after the results of the Nike TOC and the West Coast Jamboree, but SoCal still claims the first three spots. After that we have some movement with a couple of Northern California teams making...
Preseason Girls BB State Ranks (16-40)
This group begins with Bonita Vista of Chula Vista and then Rosary of Fullerton. We also have three teams from the Sacramento area’s Sierra Foothill League, plus No. 1 teams from Ventura County and San Francisco. We go down to No. 40 Valley View (Moreno Valley) and then have more than 25 teams listed on […]
Girls BB: Pinewood keeps climbing
Los Altos Hills school wins Platinum Division at the West Coast Jamboree with a slug-it-out victory over Salesian of Richmond in title game matchup of two state top 10 squads. The elite division at one of the state’s top tournaments also concluded on Saturday with state No. 9 Carondelet of Concord taking third-place and with […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
In baseball,if you hit .300 you’re an instant millionaire. Professional prognosticators like to bat 1.000 but we’ll take .750 when matching up against the CIF Open Division seeding committee. Our projections based on rankings in the Northern California Open Division were followed by the CIF from No. 1 to No. 8 exactly, and in the...
Bracket Breakdowns (Divisions)
We offer some sleeper teams, top first-round matchups and some seedings that we disagree with for every one of the CIF boys and girls divisional brackets. Sierra Canyon boys and girls both earn No. 1 seeds but in different divisions. Note: If you aren’t a Gold Club member and want to see this entire post,...
Boys, Girls BB State Rank Updates
De La Salle of Concord, Damien of La Verne and upstart Campolindo of Moraga join the list of California’s elite State Top 20 boys hoops clubs. For the State Top 20 on the girls side, Carondelet of Concord is highest newcomer. Others coming up fast are Garces of Bakersfield, Brookside Christian of Stockton and Salesian […]
NEW Divisional Girls BB Rankings
Coming on strong as CIF section finals are about to take place are newly-ranked teams Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills (D1), West of Torrance (D2), Florin of Sacramento (D3), Brentwood of Los Angeles (D4) and Desert of Edwards AFB (D5). Wednesday scores included in these updated rankings....
