In a spectacular display of rim-rattling dunks and jaw-dropping talent, Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth cruises past Sheldon of Sacramento to win its second straight CIF Open Division state championship. The Trailblazers also joined the girls for the first-ever Open Division title sweep since the CIF went to the Open Division in 2013. We also have...
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Boys BB: CIFSS & SJS Titles Won
Leading champions in CIF Southern Section championship games played at Cal Baptist University in Riverside and CIF Sac-Joaquin Section championship games played at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento were the two teams that played each other last year in the CIF Open Division state final. Bishop Montgomery of Torrance, the No. 8 seed in […]
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. It was a hectic summer and fall with player movement, but it’s not hard to predict the team at the top. Players came and went to and from California, left CIF programs, but when it’s all said […]
Inside the All-State Boys BB Teams
We still have more to go over from the 2017-18 season in California, including several players who would be All-State All-Academic, more freshmen and sophomores that came closest to being picked to those teams, our choice for a player who in our research would be most inspirational and we go over some of the most...
Final Fours For CIF Open Hoops Set
For the boys, new state No. 1 Sierra Canyon goes overtime for the second time in a little more than two weeks to beat No. 2 Bishop Montgomery. Etiwanda, Bishop O’Dowd and Sheldon also move on. For the girls, there won’t be a No. 1 vs. No 2 state matchup in the NorCal final as […]
Salesian & Mater Dei both stunned
The first night of the CIF Open Division boys basketball state playoffs saw both top seeds from the north and south suffer elimination upset losses. State No. 1 Salesian of Richmond lost in overtime to Folsom while state No. 2 Mater Dei of Santa Ana was tripped up by Fairfax of Los Angeles. Read on […]
Boys BB: Mater Dei Wins 23rd Title
State No. 4 Mater Dei of Santa Ana wins its first CIF Southern Section Open Division title since the Stanley Johnson era with a thrilling 55-53 victory over state No. 2 Sierra Canyon. With the win, Mater Dei will receive the top seed in the SoCal Open regional bracket set to be released Sunday afternoon. […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
We finally hit the week where the tougher competition in the playoffs causes some major changes in our weekly State Top 20, including at the very top. With Bishop Montgomery going down in the CIFSS Open Division playoffs, read on to see why Salesian of Richmond gets the nod as the new No. 1 in...
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
As the major holiday tournaments come to a close, we ring in the New Year with our updated our boys basketball state rankings. The results of those tournaments were about as random and unpredictable as we can remember in quite some years. After all of that, there are five newcomers for this week’s but Mater...
Boys BB: Final ’19 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a final look at the state’s top college prospects in the freshman (2019) class. Our final 2019 Cal-Hi Sports Top 25 for the 2015-16 school year shows seven new prospects. This concludes our player rankings package for the just completed school year and our next rankings...
