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CIF State Basketball Picks & Previews

As is another custom of ours going back more than 30 years, here are the predicted scores, what to watch for and more for each of the 12 CIF boys and girls basketball state title games this weekend in Sacramento. This is done with the best of wishes for all 24 teams, but the goal […]

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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings

The pecking order for this week’s next to last rankings was set with the Monday morning release of the Girls BB: State Rankings By Division so these rankings will mirror them. Now we explain it. There were some changes in the top 14 spots which belong to Open teams and there was some movement after...

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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings

This is the week we vent our distaste for the current situation in some section playoffs that shouldn’t be doing Open Divisions, but after this week the routs will be behind us for the most part as the teams that are supposed to be in the top divisions of CIF Southern and Northern Regional playoffs...

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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings

The playoffs begin in the CIF Southern Section and with a couple of exceptions the seedings of the Open Division look more like these rankings than they ever did in any of the previous polls the CIFSS releases each week. With league play wrapping up and limited non-league action last week throughout the state, there...

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NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings

This is a special edition of the boys basketball Top 25 state rankings not only because it includes Monday MLK results, but also includes two weeks of results. We didn’t update our rankings last week because of all the COVID-19 related postponements and cancellations and there are still a handful of ranked teams that have...

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State Schools of the Century (So Far)

We came up with a points system for all of the schools that have been mentioned and honored in our annual State School of the Year selections since the 1999-2000 school year and have put together a top 10 for overall sports excellence so far for the 21st century. It is close at the top […]

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NEW Girls BB State Top 20

The final eight for the CIF Open Division is set, and after the way it shook out those eight teams have risen to the final eight spots for the state rankings and will stay there, although it might not be in the same position for the final rankings as we have them in this week’s...

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What If CIF State Softball Playoffs?

There’s been discussion about the future addition of CIF state playoffs in both softball and baseball. We went through all of the teams in our final divisional state softball rankings and came up with a proposed format with an Open Division and then six divisions after that. We set up brackets for each division as...

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NEW S.F. Bay Area FB Ranks (Week 5)

Big win by Wilcox combined with Sacred Heart Prep allowing 55 points in crazy win over Carmel causes a shift toward the bottom of this week’s rankings. Many teams at the top had byes, but could be movement next week after Clayton Valley plays Monte Vista and WCAL games start.

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Saturday CIF Boys Finals

An Ivan Rabb free throw with 0.8 seconds left helps O’Dowd get off the schneid with overtime win over Mater Dei in Open Division. In Division II, La Mirada goes two OTs to beat Archbishop Mitty. In Division IV, De’Anthony Melton makes plays in the final seconds as Crespi triumphs. Note: For next week’s final […]

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