Category Archives: State Top 20 Rankings
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (1-15)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’ll do it with our preseason boys basketball state rankings. It was a normal summer for the first time since 2019, as the long-term effects of COVID-19 begin to take shape and California deals with its “new” normal. That normal includes the impact that Name, […]
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (16-40)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we are doing it with a preseason Top 40 of the best boys teams from all across the state. This group is led by No. 16 Clovis West and includes the rest of these teams down to No. 40 Rancho Cucamonga, plus a list […]
Baseball: Final State TOP 40 Rankings
Our final rankings are not rushed out and done in a simple list form. We take our time and expand them at the end all the way out to 40 teams in all and have completed write-ups for each. CIF D2 regional champions Archbishop Mitty and Torrey Pines get the biggest jumps for the final...
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (1-15)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’ll do it with our preseason boys basketball state rankings. It was a short summer and fall after last year’s spring CIF season and another hectic off-season with player movement. Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth has some key new pieces and opens up the 2021-22 season as […]
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (16-40)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we are doing it with a preseason Top 40 of the best boys teams from all across the state. This group is led by No. 16 San Marcos and includes the rest of these teams down to No. 40 JSerra of San Juan Capistrano, […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
The first five are all now from the CIF Southern Section as Mission Viejo moves up from No. 6 following Folsom’s loss to De La Salle. The new No. 1 for NorCal is Serra of San Mateo, but the Padres and St. Francis of Mountain View (team with win vs. DLS) are in the same...
NorCal vs. SoCal: Endless Debate
It was after all games were played during the 1992 high school football season in the state when we put together a cover story for Student Sports Magazine that allowed players from the top-ranked teams to come together for a photo shoot. The one who came down to Southern California to represent CIF North Coast...
Season Replayed: Boys Hoops 1999
This season had it all from perhaps the most surprising D1 state champion in the 40-plus years of the CIF state championships plus the start of a three-year run at the top of D2 by Dominguez of Compton, a series of memorable individual duels and the final game in a legendary career of one of...
Season Replayed: Boys Hoops 1985
Imagine what might happen today if the massive CIF Southern Section were not part of a state championship? Don’t imagine. That’s what happened for the 1984-85 basketball season. It set up a series of insanely difficult final state rankings and team of the year announcements, especially when the top two divisional boys champions in the...
Boys BB Schools of Century (So Far)
Going by a points system based on final state top 20 rankings since the 1999-2000 school year and matching previous posts for schools of the century (so far) plus football, girls basketball, softball and baseball, here’s the final list of this series for boys basketball. The No. 1 total, by a wide margin, was compiled...
