We presented Blasts From The Past in the fall for football, and will now look at doing the same for boys and girls basketball when those teams should be playing this winter. These are highlights from around the state from 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years ago. We’ve also added one […]
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Girls BB: State 30 Greatest Teams (1-15)
Teams connected to one of the greatest players in women’s basketball history and the winningest head coach in state history were considered for the No. 1 position, but the team that has landed that ranking just clicked too many boxes to be denied that honor. We also have other teams in the top group from...
State School of Year: Buchanan Repeats
With boys wrestling rolling to fifth straight CIF state team title plus girls cross country winning one in D1 gives Buchanan of Clovis the edge in collecting its second straight State School of the Year honor. There was also a NorCal regional title in a third sport and plenty of depth for a program that […]
Girls BB: Public School State TOYs
As is our longstanding tradition for basketball, whenever there is an addition to our boys all-time lists there must be the same for the girls. The private schools tending to win the highest classes of the CIF state championships on the girls side are not as prevalent and we actually didn’t start to have them...
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
Despite our wholehearted support of the state CIF and the difficulty of seeding so many teams in so many divisions with competitive equity looking over the shoulders of the seeding committees, we can’t help but think a different format may be needed for the Open Division going forward. Are five or six teams (and in...
Clovis West boys/girls CIF split?
From the bizarro world of CIF state playoffs, competitive equity seeding and Open Divisions comes this very real possibility: one prominent school in which its boys basketball team is competing in Northern California while its girls team is in Southern California. The school we’re talking about is Clovis West of Fresno, which is the top […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
The major tournaments in girls’ basketball for California teams begin this week with most of the top teams heading to the Nike TOC in Phoenix. From there some will come to the East Bay/Concord area for the 160-team West Coast Jamboree. For these updated rankings, six-time state champ Long Beach Poly is missing for the […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This week’s highest newcomer is unbeaten La Costa Canyon at No. 43, partly because the Mavericks have a showdown looming against No. 16 Mission Hills. Other newcomers are Sacramento High and Clovis West. We also have Oakdale going up to No. 31 after beatng Manteca and Milpitas going up to No. 38 after beating Wilcox...
Girls BB Final Divisional Rankings
In conjunction with our final, expanded State Top 35 rankings, we also are releasing our final divisional state rankings for girls basketball. We have expanded each division by five teams and we list teams to watch for the 2017-18 season. Teams getting moved up for the final rankings include Brea Olinda of Brea (D1), Chaminade...
