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...
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Boys BB: NEW Division State Ranks
Here are the updated divisional state rankings after Saturday’s CIF regional semifinals but before the regional finals. We will have no divisional rankings after Tuesday games but will have a CIF state finals preview and then there will be final divisional state rankings the following week. No. 1 teams are Sierra Canyon (Open), St. John...
Boys BB All-State Nominees (SoCal)
This will be the 47th year of the annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for boys basketball. We always begin with an initial list of nominees on our board for teams that will be chosen. After getting the NorCal part of it done last week, this list covers the CIF sections in Southern California (not including […]
Boys BB: NEW Division State Ranks
After the CIF pairings from last Sunday plus first round games on Tuesday is when we can begin to look at expected favorites in each division of the CIF state championships. We can’t do it any earlier since there’s no way to know which divisions these teams are going to be in. These also will […]
State Basketball Players of the Week
Once we reach the end of the CIF section playoffs, we also reach the end of doing basketball players of the week and will switch next week to baseball and softball. We’re obviously looking for big outings in section finals for these honors and have found them in Portola Valley and Sacramento for Northern California […]
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...
CIFSS Boys: Sierra Canyon separates
The Open Division championship played on Saturday night at the Toyota Center in Ontario wasn’t quite what what the state No. 1 Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth boys have been doing for the last few weeks. The win over Mission League rival Harvard-Westlake of Studio City was similar, though, to its recent defensive-oriented wins over other […]
Boys BB All-State Nominees (NorCal)
This will be the 47th year of the annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for boys basketball. We always begin with an initial list of nominees on our board for teams that will be chosen. This list covers the CIF sections in Northern California (including the Central Section). We welcome all input and additional nominations. We […]
CCS Teams Wrap Up NorCal Top Seeds?
The Archbishop Riordan boys and the Archbishop Mitty girls both won, as expected, in a CIF Central Coast Section Open Division doubleheader played on Friday at USF. It’s a third straight section title for the Crusaders and it’s five in a row for the Monarchs. We have a lot more history set for the Mitty […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We begin with a salute to the state’s third boys player this season who recently reached 3,000 career points. We also feature two boys who went past 2,000 points for their career plus a sophomore with a big outing in a win over an opponent led by our state’s only 4,000-point scorer. For the girls,...
