Category Archives: CIF State Championships
State Coach of Year: Kelly Sopak
The head coach of CIF Division I state champion Carondelet of Concord has been named the 2025 Cal-Hi Sports State Coach of the Year for girls basketball. However, Kelly Sopak’s ascension to joining a group of coaches honored by Cal-Hi Sports dating back to 1972 for the top honor for girls high school coaches in […]
State Coach of Year: Andre Chevalier
For leading his program to its first CIF state championship post-COVID with a unit that wasn’t expected to be there in the preseason, Andre Chevalier of Chatsworth Sierra Canyon has been named the 2025 State Coach of the Year in boys basketball. His third CIF state title didn’t come at the open level, but the […]
CIF Saturday Boys BB State Finals
Behind a performance for the ages from senior Brayden Burries, Roosevelt of Eastvale wins its first CIF Open Division state title on Saturday night in Sacramento over Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco. It’s also the third for the Inland Empire in the last six years and keeps Northern California winless in the Open Division since […]
Friday CIF State Finals
Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth boys make the plays in the final 90 seconds of the Division I championship game to turn back Lincoln of Stockton to win school’s fourth CIF state title. Carondelet of Concord girls win their second state title with a similar win in their D1 state final. Others claiming state crowns at […]
Girls BB CIF State Previews & Picks
Etiwanda looking to pick up third straight CIF Open Division state title and it could be two straight for Caruthers (but this time for D2 and not D3). It also may be surprising that Sabrina Ionescu’s high school coach hasn’t yet won a CIF state title, but that may change on Friday night. We’re looking […]
Boys BB CIF State Previews & Picks
It’s harder to pick teams to win in the lower divisions of the CIF state finals due to competitive equity seeding factors, but at the top the advantages for the CIF Southern Section teams haven’t gone anywhere in more than 10 years and that is the case once again. There is no CIFSS team in […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
As is often the case with respect to the top teams in the Open Division for California girls basketball the key word is “rematches.” This year is another perfect example. The CIF Southern Regional championship on Tuesday will be a third meeting of the two teams this season while the Northern Regional title game is...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The NorCal and SoCal regional finals are set for Tuesday and in our second-to-last State TOP 30 boys basketball rankings of the 2024-25 season, a team that didn’t make the regional moves up based on last week’s results. As expected, it will be No. 1 vs. No. 2 in Tuesday’s SoCal Open title game and...
Girls BB: NEW Division State Ranks
New No. 1 teams are Windward of Los Angeles (D1), Marin Catholic of Kentfield (D3), Half Moon Bay (D4) and Rosamond (D5). Still No. 1 is Ontario Christian (Open) and Caruthers (D2). This is the second installment of these divisional state rankings, which are updated through the regional semifinals played Saturday. The third installment will...
Boys BB: NEW Division State Ranks
As has been the case since competitive equity seeding for CIF regional playoffs, we can’t do any divisional state rankings since it isn’t known which divisions to place teams until the regional playoffs are seeded. We not only have those placements from last Sunday, but the first round of games from Tuesday to go off […]
