This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. This week we have a mix of boys & girls hoops with the first writeups of the spring...
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NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
As the regional playoffs start up this week, St. Mary’s of Stockton moves up three spots and Mission Hills of San Marcos goes up two after winning CIF sectional titles last weekend. Etiwanda also exchanges positions with Sierra Canyon at No. 2 and No. 3 after its huge win in the CIF Southern Section Open...
Boys/Girls BB Combo Records
Here is a collection of updated state records in categories relating to boys & girls combo records. These include Best Season Records for boys & girls teams at the same school for the same season along Most Combo Wins, Best Combo Records for Each Year and all of the same year, same schools to win...
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 Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
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...
Girls BB State Team of Year 2021
With no state championship as a final moment for the second straight season, we go back again to our longstanding tradition of naming a State Team of the Year for girls basketball that has been done for every season since 1972. Following La Jolla Country Day for last season, the only choice for 2021 is […]
White-Hot CIFSS Final Goes To MD
Monarchs capture their second straight CIF Southern Section Open Division title with an overtime win over Centennial of Corona on a buzzer-beating three-pointer by junior Lani White. Showdown matchups involving the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the state and with both sporting unbeaten records don’t always live up to the hype. This one […]
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs are under way in the CIF Southern Section and as expected there were no upsets in the first round of Open Division Pool A and Pool B play. Playoffs will also be getting underway this week in the CIF Central Section and the CIF San Diego Section feeding into the Southern California regionals,...
Ms. BB Candidate: Bonkers for Brooke
This is one of two inside looks at the leading seniors from the Class of 2021 who would have to be the top senior contenders to be Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year. They will be teammates soon at Stanford, which will be playing in the Final Four on Friday in San Antonio. Go […]
Insider Report: Mater Dei (Santa Ana)
We are continuing with a series of girls basketball preseason-style features on some of the state’s most prominent programs and players for the 2020-21 school year. It’s almost been one year since any of them have played and it may end up being until December of 2021 for some. We hope that isn’t the case, […]
