We’re doing a combo post for the final State Teams of the Year honors since both teams — Roosevelt of Eastvale boys and Etiwanda girls — are from the Inland Empire and are only about 16 miles apart. It’s not the first time that the Inland Empire has swept the two big final No. 1 […]
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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 […]
Friday CIF State Finals
Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth boys make the plays in the final 90 seconds of the Division I championship game to turn back Lincoln of Stockton to win school’s fourth CIF state title. Carondelet of Concord girls win their second state title with a similar win in their D1 state final. Others claiming state crowns at […]
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 […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We have a mix this week with some games from Tuesday’s regional basketball finals involving stars like Brayden Burries, Alijah Arenas, Alijah “Puff” Morris and Lauren Harris. Burries, Arenas & Morris will all be on hand at this weekend’s CIF state finals in Sacramento. Harris has obliterated state three-point shooting records for girls. Final career...
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...
Boys BB: NEW Division State Ranks
Here is the second installment of these divisional state rankings, which are updated through the regional semifinals played Saturday. The third installment will be the final rankings after next weekend’s CIF state championships. No. 1 teams are Roosevelt of Eastvale (Open), Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth (D1), Chatsworth (D2), King’s Academy of Sunnyvale (D3), Fresno Christian...
Boys BB All-State Nominees (SoCal)
Here is a first list of the boys nominees for Southern California high schools who are “on the board” for the 46th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams. We did the first NorCal list with the Central Section in the north last week. We welcome all input and additional nominations. We also have archived other seasons […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
This is the time of the year for this feature when we start mixing in top performances from baseball and softball as many of those teams around the state have already played multiple games. Basketball’s best include two girls closing in on state single-season three-point shooting record plus more big games from J.D. Wyatt (Sun...
Boys BB: NEW Division State Ranks
As has been the case since competitive equity seeding for CIF regional playoffs, we can’t do any divisional state rankings since it isn’t known which divisions to place teams until the regional playoffs are seeded. We not only have those placements from last Sunday, but the first round of games from Tuesday to go off […]