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...
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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...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
It’s a mix of football and basketball but for football it’s just a few wrap up items, including final career passing stats reported for Fresno Sunnyside’s Tanner Wilson, who finished in front of Bryce Young and behind Jayden Daniels on the all-time state list. We also have milestone basketball coaching wins for Richard Masson of...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
These are the first rankings for the 2024-25 regular season. The top nine remain the same from the preseason. Redondo Union moves into the Top 10 with three of the top four clubs winning games at the Take Flight Challenge that the Sea Hawks hosted over the weekend. There’s only one loss among the top...
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. There are three big questions heading into the 2024-25 season regarding the use of computer rankings by the CIF Southern Section, the placement of St. Joseph of Santa Maria for the regionals and whether […]
All-State Boys BB 2024: 2nd & 3rd Tms
Here’s the place to see all of the writeups for those who have been selected second team overall and third team overall on the 45th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Teams. The teams feature terrific underclassmen and some seniors who had stellar four-year careers that began with the once-in-a-lifetime 2021 CIF Spring Season. For...
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.
Harvard-Westlake Wins First CIFSS Open Title
State No. 1 Harvard-Westlake of Studio City defeats No. 2 Roosevelt of Eastvale to capture the program’s first CIF Southern Section Open Division crown. The Wolverines hold on at the end after missed free throws and a tough foul call against Roosevelt after the final missed Wolverines’ foul shot. Harvard-Westlake will now enter the SoCal […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 35 Rankings
The playoffs are in full swing around the state and section champions will be crowned this weekend. For the fifth consecutive season, the CIF Southern Section Open Division title game will feature a matchup of the top two ranked teams in the state. The last time that game didn’t was in 2018-19 when Salesian of...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 35 Rankings
For the third consecutive week, there is a new No. 1 team in the latest boys basketball State Top 35 rankings. As we said last week, the Mission League teams weren’t 1-2-3 for long, but one of those teams is the new No. 1. Harvard-Westlake is also the No. 1 seed in the upcoming CIF...