In this week’s new boys basketball State TOP 25, it’s regional playoff time as we further break down the Open Division and D1 brackets. D1 is stronger than normal since there are only five teams in both the North and South open brackets, but some of the seeds are a bit perplexing. St. John Bosco...
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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 […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
There were plenty of results to pour over, but when this week’s boys basketball State TOP 25 was set, there is only one huge change and two newcomers to the industry’s longest running state (or national) high school rankings. In this special MLK edition, state power Mater Dei falls, but did the Monarchs fall all...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
Top-ranked Corona Centennial and No. 2 Harvard-Westlake have taken losses, but both remain unbeaten against in-state foes. What the plethora of holiday tournament results show is that the Golden State has some good teams, but not likely a super team this year. No. 3 Bishop Montgomery remains undefeated and has a showdown on Saturday against...
NorCal Tip-Off Classic Recaps
Here’s the results and recap from the 15th Annual NorCal Tip-Off Classic at Dublin. Preseason NorCal No. 1 and state No. 3 Modesto Christian fell for the second consecutive night in a loss to No. 5 Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (which also had fallen in its first game last week).
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. It was a normal summer for the first time since 2019, as the long-term effects of COVID-19 begin to take shape and California deals with its “new” normal. That normal includes the impact that Name, […]
Boys BB: More State Players of the Year
Here’s where to go to see the Cal-Hi Sports 2022 honorees for seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division. As mentioned in the Mr. Basketball writeup, Corona Centennial junior guard Jared McCain was a state player of the year according to a different criteria, but for juniors it’s plain and simple and […]
Boys BB All-State Nominations (NorCal)
This year marks the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in boys basketball and we begin the process with a list of nominations from the CIF sections in Northern California (including the Central Section). Some of these names are obvious, but for some gaining a nomination can be a just reward in and of itself. […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We still have some from basketball since one of the winningest head coaches ever has retired and we begin to think about where Ontario Christian’s Chloe Briggs will finish on the all-time career scoring list with one year to go....
