As is often the case with respect to the top teams in the Open Division for California girls basketball the key word is “rematches.” This year is another perfect example. The CIF Southern Regional championship on Tuesday will be a third meeting of the two teams this season while the Northern Regional title game is...
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NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The NorCal and SoCal regional finals are set for Tuesday and in our second-to-last State TOP 30 boys basketball rankings of the 2024-25 season, a team that didn’t make the regional moves up based on last week’s results. As expected, it will be No. 1 vs. No. 2 in Tuesday’s SoCal Open title game and...
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,...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
As the NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs begin this week, we run down the first round matchups in our latest State Top 30 boys basketball rankings. CIF Central Section D1 champ St. Joseph gets the No. 2 seed in SoCal open, but that doesn’t mean it moved up to No. 2 in the state. It...
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...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
For the second consecutive week, there is plenty of change in the bottom half of the latest State Top 30 boys basketball rankings, and once again it’s the results of the CIFSS D1 playoffs that have teams shuffling around. There is also a new state No. 1 after Harvard-Westlake goes down for the first time...
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...
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...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
For the better part of next week there will be limited action in the CIF Southern Section with no games for the Open Division until Saturday and Thursday for the lower divisions. That’s not the case in other CIF sections. The Central Coast Section doesn’t even have its seeding meeting until next Monday. At some...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The post-season is here for CIF basketball and the No. 1 team in the latest State Top 30 boys basketball rankings is also the top seed in the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs, which expanded this year to include two more teams. The 10-team field consists of 10 of the state’s top 13 teams...
