The regional playoff brackets are set and the top two seeds in both the North and South open brackets receive byes, but after that there is a mixed bag of seedings that don’t really match our boys basketball weekly State Top 35. We’ll run down why and how some of the seedings don’t follow the...
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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...
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...
FINAL All-State FB Noms (CIFSS)
Here is the second of three lists of players considered as final nominees for the various 2023 season all-state football teams. These are all from the CIF Southern Section in one place. These lists have been updated from the first lists compiled from about one month ago. Thanks for all of the nominations and input....
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This group is led by Chaminade of West Hills, which came back from a bad loss to Oaks Christian with a big win over Cathedral Catholic. Corona del Mar also honors historic 2013 team with 10-year reunion and then moves up nine spots after defeat of Cypress. Newcomers this week are topped by Manteca followed...
State Coach of the Year: Mike Hansen
It all came together for the team this season at Dougherty Valley of San Ramon. For winning its first-ever CIF North Coast Section Open Division title and for rising up to compete at the highest levels of the state, head coach Mike Hansen has been named 2023 State Coach of the Year. This also is […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. The biggest news was senior guard Dejah Saldivar of Ontario Christian setting a new girls hoops state record by making 17 three-pointers in one game plus head coach Dave Kleckner in boys hoops becoming the 22nd in state history to...
Boys BB: All-State Underclass 2021
It’s obviously a strange time compared to every other season, but we begin releasing the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Teams with a look at the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. State Team of the Year Centennial of Corona had four sophomore starters and all four have landed either...
