For these final expanded rankings we obviously had a change at the top with Etiwanda defeating Archbishop Mitty for the CIF Open Division state championship, but after that only nine of the next 23 teams in the Top 25 held onto the same spot they had in the last rankings. Seven of the next 10...
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NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
The funnel doesn’t get any narrower than this week with respect to rankings. Heading into Tuesday night, there are only eight teams left in action that can possibly rearrange things in the top 16 for the final rankings. Then on Friday and Saturday it will all be over with CIF state championships in Sacramento. One...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
After a bit of a wacky week in which there were big changes in the top 10 and one big move that was contemplated but not made it is a much quieter week for this week’s leading girls basketball teams in California. There is only one newcomer in the top 25. Many ranked teams will...
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...
Nike TOC wrap: LJCD falls in final
State’s No. 3 girls team can’t survive second surge vs New York’s Long Island Lutheran in the top division at nationally prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions in Arizona. Seven other State TOP 25 squads were in the tourney in different divisions and 34 overall, but the only one to win a title was young, talented […]
Girls of Summer: Fresh Faces
The Girls of Summer Caravan was able to visit two events this past summer in a continuing process to update readers about California’s leading girls basketball players. This story is part two and focuses on the 16th annual Myles McGowan Coaches Classic/Fresh Faces in Oakland. The first part focused on the EOT (End of the...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The rest of the state will be joining the CIF Southern Section as playoffs begin this week for the other nine sections. Speaking of the Southern Section, first round play in the Open Division didn’t produce any upsets but the two Pool A games were closer than expected. This week’s two newcomers are Oak Ridge...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This week we begin to shift some of our regular features toward baseball and softball and begin with a no-hitter in baseball plus a softball pitcher with two straight perfect games. In boys hoops, we’ve got monstrous outings from some of the most dynamic players in the state, including Boogie Ellis, Josh Christopher, Jalen Green...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
Since there were no teams that lost last week and not much to change, we begin this week’s rankings with a more detailed explanation of the new CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs being conducted through a pool play format. State No. 1 Sierra Canyon leads the pack in those playoffs. No. 2 Archbishop Mitty...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Ranks
We could have shaken things up even more from the preseason top five and while there is a change in that group the real changes are after that and particularly in the second 10 where it seems like teams not expected to lose have tanked and the who-beat-whom syndrome dropped a lot of teams from […]
