A massive fall season with three CIF state titles had Mater Dei of Santa Ana firmly in the lead to be California’s No. 1 school for the 2023-24 school year for outstanding overall athletic excellence. The Monarchs now collect that honor, which is their third in 11 years and seventh time they’ve been on top […]
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Salesian, Riordan impress at CaliLive
The team from Richmond that repped the north in the 2024 CIF Open Division state final and the team from San Francisco that has picked up a big recent transfer both won in their pool division final games at the huge BoysCaliLive24 scholastic event on Sunday in Roseville. We have a list of every team […]
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 2022-23 season, the first season with no COVID-19 issues since 2018-19. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 25 update, as teams in strong leagues deserve to move up and more D2...
Boys BB: Saluting Section Champions
State No. 1 team Centennial of Corona wins on a dunk at the buzzer in CIF Southern Section Open Division championship. We also have roundups of other games at the Honda Center in Anaheim and from the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. Every section champion also deserves to get a mention so that’s what this […]
Boys BB State Records Updated
It’s not going to be long until the state’s high school boys basketball teams are getting seriously ready for the upcoming 2022-23 season. We do the same and have completed our annual update of all categories in the Cal-Hi Sports state record files. Go inside for a look at those teams and players from the […]
Boys/Girls BB Combo Records
Here is a collection of updated state records in categories relating to boys & girls combo records. These include Best Season Records for boys & girls teams at the same school for the same season along Most Combo Wins, Best Combo Records for Each Year and all of the same year, same schools to win...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We missed last week due to the holidays, but are back with more boys and girls basketball players who have been piling up buckets. San Ysidro’s Sebastian Medina had a 60-point outing already this week for the boys, while for...
LeDuc reaches 1,000 hoop wins
Mike LeDuc from Damien of La Verne becomes only the second boys basketball coach in state history to achieve 1,000 career wins and he did it on a night when his current team played at the school he had coached previously for 21 seasons. FOR THE STATE COACHING RECORD LIST AS IT LOOKED WHEN SEASON […]
Up Close with No. 1 Coaching Leader
It’s been two seasons since Santa Ana Mater Dei’s Kevin Kiernan became the winningest coach in California girls basketball history. Up next will be 900 wins and perhaps 1,000 — counting wins he had in boys basketball earlier in his career. Go inside to see what career Kiernan began doing, what prominent prep sportswriter used […]
Season Replayed: Boys Hoops 1985
Imagine what might happen today if the massive CIF Southern Section were not part of a state championship? Don’t imagine. That’s what happened for the 1984-85 basketball season. It set up a series of insanely difficult final state rankings and team of the year announcements, especially when the top two divisional boys champions in the...
