This is the week when we start adding top outings for boys and girls hoops to go with the end of the season in football. The end also is near for the state career scoring record set just last February by Santa Maria St. Joseph’s Tounde Yessoufou as Inglewood’s Jason Crowe Jr. is averaging 40...
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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. There are three big questions heading into the 2025-26 season, one being how good Sherman Oaks Notre Dame will be without Tyran Stokes? The second is how many spots did that team deserve to […]
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (16-40)
Here’s the rest of our look at the preseason Top 40 of the best boys teams from across the state. This group is led by CIF Sac Joaquin Section favorite and No. 16 Folsom and includes the rest of these teams down to No. 40 Clovis North plus a list of 15 more teams that […]
Boys BB Records Ready for 2025-26
All of the Cal-Hi Sports state records in boys basketball are updated and ready to go before teams begin playing games later this month to start the 2025-26 season. Here’s a recap of the new additions and a look at the career state scoring record currently held by Tounde Yessoufou from St. Joseph of Santa […]
2024-25 Grid-Hoop All-State Team
To continue our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year (boys and girls), we take our annual look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes. They will comprise our 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the 15-man group is player of the year Kaleb Edwards […]
More 2024-25 Grid-Hoopers We Loved
In addition to the first 15 all-state grid-hoop players, there were many others uncovered in our research that we found who embodied the best of grid-hoop success. Several of those mentioned in this honor roll helped their teams at Carmel, Arcata and St. Vincent de Paul win CIF state football titles. FOR THIS YEAR’S ALL-STATE...
NBA Draft: Mercurial Rise for Coward
Central of Fresno grad Cedric Coward completed a massive rise over the last few months as an NBA prospect with his selection at No. 11 in the first round of this year’s NBA Draft, which was held on Wednesday in Brooklyn. Corona Centennial also made history by having a first round pick for the second […]
Boys BB: Final ’28 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with an updated look at the state’s top college prospects in the freshman (2028) class at the close of the 2024-25 school year. Our final 2028 Cal-Hi Sports Top 25 for the 2024-25 school year shows some new prospects based on play during the high...
Boys BB: Final ’26 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a final look this school year at the state’s top college prospects in the junior (2026) class. Our 2025 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows 15 newcomers and plenty of movement. Our final 2024-25 rankings for the 2027 and 2028 classes will be published by...



