Category Archives: girls basketball
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 […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It’s the next to last installment of this feature for this pandemic-affected and shortened season, but we can keep going with the CIF Central Coast Section still going until Saturday of this weekend. We have a CCS girl chosen this week for the north combined with a NorCal boys’ player who was sensational in his […]
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs in the CIF Southern Section, Central Section, San Diego Section and Central Coast Section will all conclude this weekend with teams that qualify moving on to the Southern Regional playoffs while the CCS teams join the other sections in the CIF Northern Region whose seasons have concluded. As for movement this week, the...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports and continues as a mix for boys and girls basketball plus baseball and softball for the next few weeks. In boys hoops, Oceanside El Camino’s Tyson Robinson honors his late mother by becoming school’s new career scoring leader. In girls...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
We’re getting close the end of this feature for this pandemic-affected and shortened season, partly because the two largest Northern California sections (North Coast and Sac-Joaquin) are almost finished, and we don’t like the feature coming out either during or after a possible season-ending playoff game for someone we choose is played. For this week, […]
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,...
State Stat Stars of the Week
Final totals for some players in baseball, softball, girls basketball and boys basketball for this spring are starting to come in. In boys hoops, Sacramento player explodes for 50 points in last game of his season. In girls hoops, we welcome the state’s latest (and only 14th all-time) to reach 3,000 career points. In softball,...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For our basketball honorees this week we have two from the San Gabriel Valley, including a girl from a city famous for its parade and the Rose Bowl for our SoCal award winners. We also head north and stop near one of the most famous prisons in the state, plus we go south of Fresno […]
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs begin in the CIF Southern Section this weekend and while we want to try and mirror the Open Division seedings in the CIF Southern Section our rankings are not seedings and we use a completely different set of criteria that has less emphasis on some factors the Southern Section and other sections for...
State Stat Stars of the Week
We have two weeks of honor roll performers, coaching accomplishments and more in this installment of this feature. For boys hoops, we have the fourth coach in state history to win his 900th game, plus we have a player reaching 2,000 career points and a team winning its 17th consecutive league title. For girls hoops,...
