One of those honored this week had a 63-point game in which 14 three-pointers also were made. Another is the son of an NBA world champion. For the two boys and two girls highlighted, they are from the eastern San Diego community of El Cajon, the big city of L.A., the big city of San […]
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Girls BB All-State Nominees (Part 1)
Sorry that we were not able to get out the girls version of all-state basketball nominees before the crush of the CIF state championships held on March 10-11 in Sacramento. Still, here they are in the same format as the boys. We will just give people a bit shorter period of time to respond with […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
League play is either starting this week or in full swing around the state but the top teams still have some showcase games left. Some have questioned why there are not more teams from the CIF Southern Section in the rankings and so many from Northern California. The answer is competitive equity. The CIFSS teams...
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Boys Basketball Part 2)
We present this all-time all-L.A. County team with a heavy heart since learning on Saturday that one of the all-time greats, guard Paul Westphal, had died at age 70 from brain cancer. As mentioned in our first part of this series, for boys basketball, we have to present L.A. County as a separate county or...
Boys BB: Public School State TOYs
Inspired by a comment from longtime Etiwanda head coach Dave Kleckner, we went through 50 years of California boys basketball in the long break caused by the pqndemic and selected a Public School State Team of the Year for each season. Kleckner had several teams on the list. And despite the rise of Sierra Canyon...
Boys BB: State Coach Milestones 2020
By the quicker-than-usual and sudden end to the 2019-20 California high school boys basketball season, there was one more added to the 900-win club, one more added to 800 wins, one more added to 600 and we have three newly entered on our radar list of those with 500 or more all-time wins. Of course, […]
State Record Updates & Stat Stars
From the state record book in this post, we have updates for boys basketball coaching wins, quarterbacks in football with 10,000 career passing yards, Corona del Mar’s quest for dual record holders and consecutive PATs made by a kicker. Go inside as well for a look at California’s State Stat Stars for the last two […]
State Coaching Records Updated
State record updating in all five of the major sports we cover at CalHiSports.com goes on all the time. As is our custom during the weeks we’re still wrapping up what happened during the most recent boys and girls basketball seasons, we’re now done with all of the state coaching record updates. Those actual lists […]
Boys BB: CIF Open Division 1st Round Highlights
Check here for instant analysis, individual highlights and more from CIF Open Division boys games played on the night of Wednesday, Feb. 27. All information gained from Twitter reports. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Modesto Christian 66, Archbishop Mitty (San Jose) 48 The Crusaders (24-9, No. 17 in state) got rolling in the first half against the out-matched […]
