Category Archives: boys basketball
2025-26 Grid-Hoop All-State Team
This year’s Grid-Hoop All-State Team is a big one for us as it marks 40 years in which we’ve been doing these honors. The idea always has been to take a special look at those best football-basketball combo athletes, some of them who also shine in a third sport. Leading the 15-man group of top […]
More 2025-26 Grid-Hoopers We Loved
In addition to the first 15 all-state grid-hoop athletes announced this week, there were many others uncovered in our research that we found who embodied the best of grid-hoop success. We will have two more posts with honors for the 205-26 school year, which will be our State Athletes of the Year. Several of those...
More State Schools of the Year
For boys sports only, St. John Bosco of Bellflower tops the group with baseball, wrestling, football and boys basketball success. For the girls, overall winner Santa Margarita had to be the winner in that category this time as well. Other schools gaining overall state sports excellence honors for 2025-26 are San Ramon Valley of Danville […]
CaliLive 26 in NorCal: SoCal teams win
While a lot of top level programs from Southern California skipped out on this year’s boys basketball CaliLive event held in Northern California last weekend for a competitive event set up in Las Vegas, there were still enough top squads from the region who were there at venues in the Rocklin community and several of...
Boys BB: Introducing 2029 Class
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a first look at the state’s top ninth-graders. The freshman (2029) class got off to a roaring start during its first season, but it’s still not easy for first-year players to impact the CIF’s open division. This class shows excellent promise down the line, but...
Boys BB: Final ’28 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with an updated look at the close of the school year at the state’s top college prospects in the sophomore (2028) class. Our final 2028 Cal-Hi Sports Top 65 for the 2025-26 school year shows 11 newcomers since our last update and a new No....
Boys BB: Final ’27 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a final look this school year at the state’s top college prospects in the junior (2027) class. Our 2027 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows volatile movement, as this class doesn’t have the top tier star power of recent classes, but plenty of potential. Our...
Boys BB: Final ’26 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 senior (2026) class. Our final 2026 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows many changes among scholarship players and 28 newcomers. This will be the final position for these players since we first saw many...
All-State Boys BB 2026: First Team
Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year Jason Crowe Jr. from Inglewood, State Junior of the Year NaVorro Bowman Jr. of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and NorCal Player of the Year Elias Obenyah of Richmond Salesian are among the headliners on the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state boys basketball teams. Go inside to see why […]
