Category Archives: girls basketball
Girls BB: NEW Division State Ranks
There’s almost always a big upset in any first round of the CIF north or south basketball playoffs, and there was a major one on Tuesday as NorCal D1 top seed Folsom was toppled in its first round game by San Joaquin Memorial of Fresno. Just like the boys, these first divisional rankings for the […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
Seeds, seedings and saplings. The CIF Regional playoffs are set, the seedings are out, and the action begins on Tuesday for lower divisions and on Wednesday for the Open Division. However, reflecting back on the section playoffs, and the CIF Southern Section in particular, the traditional perennial girls basketball powers are still not totally changed,...
State Basketball Players of the Week
These are the final players of the week for the 2024-25 season and all four honorees had big games in leading their teams to CIF sectional championships. They hail from Woodland and Atherton for Northern California and from Garden Grove and Oak Park for Southern California. This recognition is switching to baseball and softball for...
More CIF Section Hoop Highlights
Sunday’s CIF announcement of pairings by the CIF for the regional playoffs also has been included where it is applicable. Check these recaps below for key info from many title games across the state this weekend except for the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and CIF Southern Section for girls. We will have divisional state rankings based […]
Ontario Christian Girls Prevail
Two free throws with 17.6 seconds left proved to be the big difference for the state No. 1 Knights in their 65-63 victory on Saturday night at Toyota Arena over state No. 2 Etiwanda. The Eagles certainly are not done, however, in their attempt to win a third straight CIF Open Division state title. FOR […]
Beam-Worthy Champs in SJS
The beam outside of the Golden 1 Center doesn’t get lit for high school games, but the teams that earned CIF Sac-Joaquin Section boys/girls basketball titles on Thursday & Friday are all worthy of being in the spotlight. The Folsom boys and McClatchy girls capped the schedule with D1 titles on Friday and both look […]
State Basketball Players of the Week
With many teams in action on Tuesday night this week in crucial CIF section contests, it’s a challenge to get all of our weekly content out early in the week but we’ve done it with players of the week now done after both new boys and girls state rankings. One of our winners for this […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
Seedings versus Cal-Hi Sports girls rankings is this week’s theme. The biggest difference is by and large seedings are computer driven while these rankings come from personal observation and years of observing and evaluating the state’s top girls basketball talent. As of these current rankings we will have traversed the state and personally seen 24...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We begin with another look at boys state career scoring leaders as junior Jason Crowe Jr. of Inglewood has his season end in a tough loss in the CIF Southern Section playoffs. New record holder Tounde Yessofou still likely has three to four games left. We also have a new state freshman record for three-pointers...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The CIF Southern Section claims its Open Division playoffs are the toughest playoffs not only in California but the entire nation, and rightfully so, but after the opening rounds in both Pool A and Pool B, what’s even more obvious is the disparity between the top four seeds and the other four seeds in the...
