This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. It’s now mostly baseball & softball players getting into the spotlight, but there are some wraps as well for basketball, especially with where Lynwood’s Jason Crowe Jr. has been added into the state record book. We also have our first...
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Boys & Girls BB: CIF Friday Finals
On the first day and night of the CIF state championships at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, there were no games that were decided in the final minutes. Favored teams Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (boys) and Oakland Tech (girls) completed their tasks with the Tech girls also making history with their fifth state title […]
CIF State Basketball Picks & Previews
As is another custom of ours going back more than 30 years, here are the predicted scores, what to watch for and more for each of the 12 CIF boys and girls basketball state title games this weekend in Sacramento. This is done with the best of wishes for all 24 teams, but the goal […]
Boys BB: State Ranks By Divisions
Yes, we will once again have final divisional state rankings this season, but we can’t get them started until the CIF does its divisional placements and then there’s not enough time to get them done until the first round of the regional playoffs begin. No. 1 teams at this point of the sprint to the […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We skipped last week to get out Super Bowl alums, final all-state football teams and preseason state baseball rankings. That’s why this week’s edition has more stat stars than usual. For boys hoops, we have just the second freshmen ever...
Boys BB: Introducing 2026 Class
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a first look at the state’s top ninth-graders. The freshman (2026) class has 10 elite talents who are already making a huge impact and at least 15 who track as high major prospects. Some in the group are already mature and it’s important to keep that...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. Two of the top stat stars are from Kennedy of Granada Hills and Granada Hills Charter. We also have a player who pulled off the Christian McCaffrey triple (TD pass, TD catch, TD run). Plus, we have more boys &...
FINAL State TOP 40 Girls BB Ranks
It’s hard to believe that we are doing final rankings up against the Fourth of July and with school out for the summer, but before the season began we made it clear we would not let this pandemic wipe out the normalcy of our weekly rankings and yearly postseason honors still to come. We start...
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs begin in the CIF Southern Section this weekend and while we want to try and mirror the Open Division seedings in the CIF Southern Section our rankings are not seedings and we use a completely different set of criteria that has less emphasis on some factors the Southern Section and other sections for...
