All of our coaches and players of the year for both boys & girls are done so in the next few days we will be selecting all of the various all-state teams. This is the 45th year for both in a process in which we have chosen the same number of boys & girls all-state...
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NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
The funnel doesn’t get any narrower than this week with respect to rankings. Heading into Tuesday night, there are only eight teams left in action that can possibly rearrange things in the top 16 for the final rankings. Then on Friday and Saturday it will all be over with CIF state championships in Sacramento. One...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
This week the top eight spots stay put but after that only seven of the next 17 teams retained their position from the last rankings. There was only one newcomer in the top 25 and one in the next 10 teams ranked. One thing is fairly clear, and that is after the first three teams...
Girls BB: Recognizing Some Classics
The Third Annual Recognize Game Classic at Merritt College in Oakland on Saturday had five teams ranked in the most recent Cal-Hi Sports State Top 25 rankings in action, and as expected four of the top-ranked teams that were favored came out victorious. We were honored to be asked to announce the six games contested […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. We’ve got another girl scoring a touchdown (just the second one in Central Section history) but there was...
Preseason All-East Bay Football Team
After our Preseason State TOP 50 team rankings and all athletes of the year for 2022-23 are done, we’re back to this annual tour of the state through preseason all-area or all-section football teams. This one also includes the CIF Oakland Section to go with all of the schools in the East Bay region of...
Girls Cali Live 23: Top Player Ranks
Connecticut-committed Morgan Cheli from Archbishop Mitty of San Jose and Brazilian transplant and newfound phenom Taissa “Tissa” Queiroz of Santa Rosa Cardinal Newman were the top two players among some pretty impressive talent that performed for around 75 college coaches at the Roebbelen Center in Roseville two weeks ago. We have starting top five, next...
Girls of Summer: Fresh Faces
The Girls of Summer Caravan was able to visit two events this past summer in a continuing process to update readers about California’s leading girls basketball players. This story is part two and focuses on the 16th annual Myles McGowan Coaches Classic/Fresh Faces in Oakland. The first part focused on the EOT (End of the...
NEW State TOP 25 Boys BB Rankings
More NorCal teams are scheduled to tip-off in boys basketball this week, while teams in SoCal eye key wins with playoff seedings and placements in mind. As of now, most NorCal sections in the CIF are not holding postseason playoffs so league titles and key regular season games will be the focus for those teams....
Boys BB State Team Records Updated
All of the exclusive state boys basketball team records on this site have now been completely updated with more categories added, including three-point shooting for a season, perfect free throw shooting for a game and what happened in a 1975 game that ended 2-2 in regulation. We have lots of mentions for Mater Dei, Chino...
