Talk about some movement. Not one team in the first 15 spots maintained last week’s ranking this week after there were some upsets and seeds that went down. Ontario Christian is back on top and Archbishop Mitty is No. 2 as the two will need to win on Tuesday to force a rematch for the...
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NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
One week of regional playoffs brought some big changes to our weekly boys basketball state rankings after a mixture of upsets and favorites advancing. The big winners this week are SoCal D1 finalist Damien of La Verne and long-time CIF state power Mater Dei of Santa Ana, which was left for dead going into the...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
We begin this week with some explanations from the CIF and our own thoughts on Sunday’s release of pairings for both the NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs. We also have a big change at the top as Sierra Canyon has to move up to No. 1 after beating previous No. 1 Ontario Christian in the...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
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...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
No. 1 Ontario Christian already has more 100-point games than any team in state history entering CIF Southern Section Open Division semifinals with three other top five state teams. St. Mary’s of Stockton and San Ramon Valley also move up within top 10 and may already be eyeing each other for possible CIF NorCal Open...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
We finally reached week where there are major changes in our weekly boys basketball state rankings with the No. 2 and No. 3 teams both going down in the ultra-competitive CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs. Both can still come back, however, in the CIF SoCal regional playoffs. We have plenty of movement involving those...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
At this stage of the season, with the CIF Southern Section playoffs already in full swing, and the other sections about ready to begin their playoff competition, the computerized seeding and rankings derived from them don’t really hold a lot of water moving forward. That’s because at this point all that really matters is head-to-head...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The playoffs are about to get started everywhere around the state, but the change we see in our boys basketball state rankings is caused by the big-time matchups in the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs. Did the massive section invite too many teams to its open division? We now have three teams in a...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
We start out this week with an intro to the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs, which will be 12 teams this season. Two of the 12 will be done for the season when the section playoffs are done even though those two teams will be vastly superior to many other teams moving on to...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The playoff pairings for the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs, which contains the teams that dominate the boys basketball state rankings, are now out and there will be competitive matchups for the next two weeks. The playoff pairings in the massive section didn’t affect the state rankings much and there are some questionable placements...
