As the CIF has released its regional pairings for the final two weeks of play for the 2025-26 season, we have plenty of movement in our weekly boys basketball state rankings, but no new teams. We stick by our rankings, based on results, because there were some head-scratching moves when it came to placing teams...
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St. Joe, Riordan crush it in Napa
Despite Prolific Prep of Napa relocating to Florida, the high school basketball showcase that began 10 years ago in the Napa area returned on Saturday to Napa Valley College. Prolific Prep never was a CIF program but has produced several big-time NBA draft picks. The feature game for California teams on Saturday featured top 10 […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Santa Margarita and Corona Centennial moved up to the top two spots last week and will now play each other on Friday at the Rose Bowl for the CIF Southern Section D1 title. The top 14 places stayed the same with just one minor change. San Clemente is the biggest mover after that now at...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
As expected, St. John Bosco returns to the No. 1 ranking and we also drop previous No. 1 Mater Dei behind the team the Monarchs lost to. Mission Hills of San Marcos (up three spots) and Damien of La Verne (up four spots) also gain a lot of ground. New teams to this group from...
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
It’s a parade of Archbishop Riordan players on this squad (especially on offense), but St. Francis of Mountain View has the most on defense. Valley Christian linemen and three from Sacred Heart Cathedral also have cracked the lineup. The CCS is dominated by the West Catholic Athletic League, but some other players from schools like...
CIF Saturday Boys BB State Finals
Behind a performance for the ages from senior Brayden Burries, Roosevelt of Eastvale wins its first CIF Open Division state title on Saturday night in Sacramento over Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco. It’s also the third for the Inland Empire in the last six years and keeps Northern California winless in the Open Division since […]
Boys BB CIF State Previews & Picks
It’s harder to pick teams to win in the lower divisions of the CIF state finals due to competitive equity seeding factors, but at the top the advantages for the CIF Southern Section teams haven’t gone anywhere in more than 10 years and that is the case once again. There is no CIFSS team in […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The postseason is in full swing across the state and this is the first week where we have major changes and newcomers to the latest State Top 30 boys basketball rankings, primarily from the results of the loaded CIFSS D1 playoffs. The important games for those ranked clubs are coming up on Tuesday, as the...
All-State FB 2024: 2nd & 3rd Teams
This post that goes over all of those on 2nd & 3rd Teams for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Team honors concludes all of this year’s various honorees. There will still be an updated all-state watch list for freshmen to come, but it can’t be done like our other all-state teams. Like the...
