Congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports 2025 top honorees for juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division with Open & D1 combined. The CIF Southern Section captures all four of the class-by-class honors, but only has one winner for the CIF divisions....
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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 […]
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 […]
Tounde Yessoufou Stands Alone
St. Joseph of Santa Maria four-year star moves to No. 1 on the all-time state career scoring list with 30 points in a win on Saturday at the school’s gym vs Weston Ranch of Stockton. We have all of the record-breaking details, what is coming next for the Knights, who is next in line to […]
L.A. City Updates: Arenas Sets Mark
This week, the state career scoring record fell. Last week, the CIF L.A. City Section career record was surpassed by a player who probably would have surpassed this week’s total next season if not for a reclassification. TO SEE UPDATED ALL-TIME STATE CAREER SCORING LIST AFTER THIS WEEK’S GAMES (GOLD CLUB), CLICK HERE. FOR WRITEUP […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
The stars were shining bright at The Classic at Damien as Alijah Arenas of Chatsworth and Jason Crowe Jr. of Inglewood faced each other. They ended up trading the tourney single-game record on separate nights. They weren’t the only ones to get it going in that tourney, either. Brandon Benjamin of Anaheim Canyon had a...
Boys BB: More State Players of the Year
Here’s where to go to see the Cal-Hi Sports 2024 top honorees for juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division with Open & D1 combined. Three different sophomores have collected a player of the year honor since two of them have been chosen for their CIF divisions.
Boys BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
These divisional rankings can only be done three times now in this era of competitive equity when no one knows the divisions teams will be in until the CIF regional playoffs start. Still, we have them as final in our archives for every season and here are the final rankings for boys hoops for the...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. We begin this week with basketball coaches who have won their 800th, 500th and 400th games. There also...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the second straight week, Cal-Hi Sports saw the Northern California girls honoree in person, and we almost saw both the NorCal and Southern California award winners this week since both were playing at the same Sabrina Ionescu SI20 Showcase event in Concord. It’s just that part of their games were being played at the […]