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State Basketball Players of the Week

We have four very deserving honorees this week that are not the big stars that take up a lot of the limelight, but those that usually might only get local accolades. We don’t have any entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, which is one of the goals of this feature, but one of […]

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NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings

As we begin the final drive to CIF section playoffs, one thing is pretty apparent. These rankings don’t fully coincide with what the computer spits out or in the case of the CIF Southern Section it uses a system that includes a weighted form of margin of victory. Regardless, we are going to continue to...

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NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings

The first nine spots remain intact this week but after that there are a lot of changes with only one team in the next 21 spots holding onto the same spot it had in last week’s rankings. Having seen seven of the top 10 teams and 24 of the TOP 30 in live action, we...

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Yessoufou goes to No. 2 in Salesian win

The matchup between Cal-Hi Sports No. 4 St. Joseph of Santa Maria and No. 9 Salesian of Richmond had more than one storyline and some twists and turns in the featured high school game on Saturday at the 10th Annual Crush in the Valley Basketball Showcase at Contra Costa College in San Pablo. We hope […]

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State Basketball Players of the Week

Just like every year with MLK weekend games and events going through Monday, it means the boys and girls rankings were delayed until Tuesday, and that also means the State Basketball Players of the Week feature is delayed a day as well, and last but not least Tuesday games are included, and that helped secure […]

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NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings

There were a couple of changes in the top 10 this week with Etiwanda and Archbishop Mitty flipping. The next three spots stayed the same but with Folsom getting upset the next four teams after the Bulldogs all moved up a spot with Fairmont Prep joining the top 10. The reality is once we get...

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State Basketball Players of the Week

We didn’t have any entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book to track among this week for State Basketball Players of the Week award winners, but we did have some talent that was discovered, including a freshman girls who can light it up from outside, among this week’s honorees. This week our stops are […]

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NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings

A whole lot has happened since the first regular season rankings were released for games through December 14. However, after just around three weeks of major tournament action since then, and a major injury in the California girls basketball community that pretty much occurred on the eve of these rankings being released, after all that...

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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings

This will be the only rankings we will do until after the Nike TOC, West Coast Jamboree and SoCal Holiday Classic are completed during the holidays, but one thing that is shaping up, and that is after the first five teams (led by Ontario Christian & Archbishop Mitty) no one seems to have what it...

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Milestone Win, Mitty Title at Sweet 16

State preseason No. 2 Archbishop Mitty (San Jose) headed down to San Diego for the annual La Jolla Country Day Sweet 16 tourney and came back with an impressive title. The big story of the event on Friday night was the host school’s head coach becoming the winningest head coach in CIF San Diego Section […]

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