Seeds, seedings and saplings. The CIF Regional playoffs are set, the seedings are out, and the action begins on Tuesday for lower divisions and on Wednesday for the Open Division. However, reflecting back on the section playoffs, and the CIF Southern Section in particular, the traditional perennial girls basketball powers are still not totally changed,...
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NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
As the NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs begin this week, we run down the first round matchups in our latest State Top 30 boys basketball rankings. CIF Central Section D1 champ St. Joseph gets the No. 2 seed in SoCal open, but that doesn’t mean it moved up to No. 2 in the state. It...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Biggest changes this week are as a result of Inglewood losing by a large margin to Santa Margarita in the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs and St. Francis of Mountain View falling in its regular season final. That helps Serra of Gardena to move up three spots plus San Juan Hills and Simi Valley joining...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
We haven’t had a team jump from unranked into the top list, but there was no choice to do that this week for Leuzinger of Lawndale after its upset of previous No. 6 Santa Margarita. There also are two teams that moved up this week after losses — Sierra Canyon and Pittsburg — plus Los...
Friday CIF State Finals
St. John Bosco continues CIF Southern Section domination in D1 and grabs its second state title with hot-shooting win. It’s a seventh state title, meanwhile, for the Bishop Montgomery of Torrance girls in its D1 triumph vs Bishop O’Dowd. Other big winners at the Golden 1 Center were Alemany of Mission Hills (Boys D3), Caruthers […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
This week’s foursome has been selected also because they weren’t in any CIF section playoff games on Monday night and all four will be going this week — two in section semifinals and two who already have punched their tickets for section title games. Our stops this week are in Cerritos and Hollywood for Southern […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
With league play winding down or finished in CIF sections throughout the state, there were no changes in the first 15 spots of this week’s rankings and very minimal movement after that. There was only one newcomer this week but as the playoffs unfold there will likely be more movement as some teams are eliminated...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 35 Rankings
After pouring over the results of the holiday tournaments and New Year’s showcases, there are four newcomers to the latest boys basketball State Top 35 led by red-hot San Ramon Valley of Danville. Other high-risers are No. 2 Roosevelt of Eastvale and the team it just beat in a showcase game, No. 8 St. Joseph...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
We have arrived at the week of the likely first of two massive matchups between Mater Dei of Santa Ana (No. 1) and St. John Bosco of Bellflower (No. 2). There is another potentially even more historic game up north between state-ranked De La Salle and San Ramon Valley. The biggest mover in this week’s...
