Category Archives: CIF State Championships

Girls BB Open Division Projections

After all CIF section girls basketball champions are crowned by Saturday night, it’ll only take a few minutes before many in the media and some coaches will start to think about Sunday when the CIF state office will release its pairings for the upcoming Northern California and Southern California regional playoffs. We start thinking seriously […]

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Boys BB Open Division Projections

After all CIF section boys basketball champions are crowned by Saturday night, it’ll only take a few minutes before many in the media and some coaches will start to think about Sunday when the CIF state office will release its pairings for the upcoming Northern California and Southern California regional playoffs. We start thinking seriously […]

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CIF Open Division Changes For 2018

It’s been a common joke whenever the CIF Southern Section has competitive equity playoffs in whatever sport that the team that loses in a No. 4 vs. No. 5 seed quarterfinal for its highest classification automatically becomes a favorite to win the CIF Division I state championship. Note: We hope you enjoy this free post […]

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NEW Boys BB State Top 20

The postseason is upon us in some sections around the state, but don’t expect too much change until we get deeper in the playoff brackets. Of course, the 8-team CIF Southern Section Open Division bracket will have a big impact on that movement, but none of the teams would drop out if they lose in...

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Hearlihy Wins Add Up: More Than 700

It’s been a strong season so far at Harvard-Westlake with a top four state ranking and on Thursday the Wolverines capped a perfect run through the super-tough Mission League. They’ll now head to the CIF Southern Section Open Division as a co-favorite with Windward of Los Angeles and they’ll do it with a head coach […]

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All-State FB 2017: Small Schools

Presented by Blast Athletics, the Cal-Hi Sports 2017 all-state teams roll on with the release of these 60 players representing small schools. Yes, it’s getting harder and harder to determine what’s a “small” school anymore in the age of competitive equity playoffs but we’re not changing our format and will take the extra time to […]

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All-State Football 2017: Juniors

Presented by Blast Athletics, here are the first team, second team and third team all-state juniors for the 2017 California high school football season. The Cal-Hi Sports All-State Sophomore Teams were released earlier this week to kick off our 39th year of all-state football honors. For the juniors, five quarterbacks wound up on first team...

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NEW Girls BB State Top 20

There were no changes in the first eight spots for this week’s rankings and the first 11 were somewhat easy to place, but after that the records get checkered and placing importance on one win over another or a stinker loss mixed in with a quality win made it a little more difficult with so...

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Column: Watered down CIF divisions?

Competitive equity seeding of all teams in the CIF regional boys and girls basketball playoffs is coming soon for the first time and if you look at what happened in girls volleyball recently, a lot of very good teams will be missing from the lower divisions. A lot of teams and players who previously would […]

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State Coach of Year: Kris Richardson

With a team thought to be a year from being dominant, Folsom’s Kris Richardson built a squad that finished 16-0 for the second time in four years and won the CIF Division 1-AA state title. He wasn’t by himself, but this time there was no co-coach and there isn’t much doubt who should get the […]

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