Category Archives: girls basketball
Friday CIF State Finals
St. John Bosco continues CIF Southern Section domination in D1 and grabs its second state title with hot-shooting win. It’s a seventh state title, meanwhile, for the Bishop Montgomery of Torrance girls in its D1 triumph vs Bishop O’Dowd. Other big winners at the Golden 1 Center were Alemany of Mission Hills (Boys D3), Caruthers […]
Girls BB CIF State Previews & Picks
It was sub-par year for us doing predictions of state finals last year at 9-3 after a 11-1 showing from 2022. It’s time to take a crack at the 2024 lineup of games for girls basketball that will be played this weekend at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. We do this with respect to […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
The funnel doesn’t get any narrower than this week with respect to rankings. Heading into Tuesday night, there are only eight teams left in action that can possibly rearrange things in the top 16 for the final rankings. Then on Friday and Saturday it will all be over with CIF state championships in Sacramento. One...
Girls BB: NEW Division State Ranks
These have been updated through Saturday night’s regional semifinals. New No. 1 teams are Pleasant Valley of Chico (D2), Caruthers (D3) and Montgomery of San Diego (D5). Still No. 1 would be Archbishop Mitty (Open), Bishop Montgomery of Torrance (D1) and St. Bernard’s of Eureka (D4). The St. Bernard’s regional semifinal vs Foothill of Palo...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. This week we have a mix of boys & girls hoops with the first writeups of the spring...
Girls BB: Divisional State Rankings
Just like the boys, here’s our first run through of each CIF division after Tuesday’s first round game and going by our own system of doing rankings. We rank 10 teams in each division and have comments after each one. We’ll have another update next week and then final rankings after the CIF state championships […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
As the regional playoffs start up this week, St. Mary’s of Stockton moves up three spots and Mission Hills of San Marcos goes up two after winning CIF sectional titles last weekend. Etiwanda also exchanges positions with Sierra Canyon at No. 2 and No. 3 after its huge win in the CIF Southern Section Open...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For our final week this season of honoring one girl and one boy each from Southern and Northern California as our basketball players of the week we have some real hidden talent that would only see local honors if not for these awards. Also, in a bit of a twist we personally saw the SoCal […]
Girls BB: Salute To Section Champions
There were a lot more girls teams that earned CIF section championships over the weekend besides state No. 3 Etiwanda and the ones we covered on Wednesday in Sacramento. Here’s a roundup of all of the other section champions from around California. Each team deserves to get a mention with all of the others that […]
Statement Win For Etiwanda Girls
Defending CIF Open Division state champions use a suffocating defense to turn back Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth in the CIF Southern Section Open Division final on Friday in a matchup of the state’s No. 2 and No. 3 ranked teams. The Eagles will move up to No. 2 and showed they will be a force […]
