Have we ever had one week in the history of this feature (more than 10 years on this site) in which two of our honorees both threw back-to-back no-hitters? We’re not sure. All four of this week’s featured players did some amazing things and we’re pleased to bring their stories to a bigger audience. They […]
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Mr. Basketball 2025: Brayden Burries
There was plenty of competition, but it’s not a surprising choice for Mr. Basketball, as Brayden Burries’ accomplishments for CIF Open Division state champ Eastvale Roosevelt were incredible and deserve individual recognition. Today, one of the nation’s best guards headed to Arizona is awarded California’s most prestigious, long-running individual honor. For this season’s State Players […]
FINAL Boys BB State TOP 40 Rankings
As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State TOP 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2024-25 season. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 30 update, as Stockton Lincoln’s performance in the CIF D1 state title game against No. 7 Sierra Canyon causes NorCal teams to jump...
Boys/Girls BB State Teams of Year 2025
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 […]
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 […]
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...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
For the second consecutive week, there is plenty of change in the bottom half of the latest State Top 30 boys basketball rankings, and once again it’s the results of the CIFSS D1 playoffs that have teams shuffling around. There is also a new state No. 1 after Harvard-Westlake goes down for the first time...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
We do this week’s State Top 30 boys basketball rankings thinking about all those affected by the devastating SoCal wildfires. A handful of games were canceled and some won’t be played this week, but a vast majority of SoCal teams play on. Mater Dei of Santa Ana is back in the Top 20 after one...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
After the plethora of holiday tournaments and New Year’s events, the top five remain the same in our weekly State Top 30 boys basketball rankings. The big questions are is No. 6 JSerra as strong as the first five and can NorCal’s top clubs realistically compete with any of them? There are five newcomers led...
