We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with an updated look at the state’s top college prospects in the freshman (2023) class at the close of the 2019-20 school year. Our final 2023 Cal-Hi Sports Top 25 for the 2019-20 school year shows plenty of movement and four new prospects, including a pair...
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NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
The CIF stayed true to its message about competitive equity when it released its boys basketball state regional pairings with the state’s top teams in both NorCal and SoCal receiving byes. This model also created a situation where all of the six participants in the SoCal open division are from the massive CIF Southern Section,...
Boys/Girls BB Pairings Reactions
There is some shock in the basketball community with all of the first-round byes for the Open Divisions, but with the way the results came in for the entire season so far and with the rise of competitive equity as an overriding factor in the seedings for all CIF playoff sports, it was a direction […]
CIF Open Division History Tour
It began with a famous (or infamous depending on point of view) football vote in 2008, but the CIF Open Division format has evolved over the years to the current inclination for there to be more byes for both the Southern California and Northern California regional playoffs. We’ll wait until Sunday to see how that […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
While the teams in the CIF Southern Section Open Division were beating each other in what is arguably the toughest non-state championship playoff bracket in the nation, we still have to find out if the favorites will prevail in the new CIF North Coast Section Open Division. State top-ranked La Jolla Country Day still looks...
All-State Girls Volleyball 2019 (Part 3)
Just like for other sports in which we’ve done all-state teams for many years, the final in a series of posts and announcements is saved for the large schools, open division schools and for all classes combined. There was a big five in girls volleyball this season in California and all five of those teams […]
NEW Girls Volleyball State Top 20
After Tuesday’s regional championships, we’re down to Torrey Pines vs. Marin Catholic for the CIF Open Division state championship plus Vista Murrieta of Murrieta vs. Campolindo of Moraga for Division 1. With competitive equity divisions and seedings, we just can’t get the other state finalists that high in the rankings but they all deserve credit […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
Pitchers getting strikeouts took center stage among the state’s stat star standouts from last week. For baseball, it was J.T. Smith of Denair putting himself into the Cal-Hi Sports state record book by notching 20 Ks in a perfect game. For softball, Templeton’s Ashley Daugherty joined an exclusive club by recording her 1,000th career strikeout...
Boys BB State Team of Year 2019
It’s a second straight State Team of the Year finish for Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth. And the way in which the Trailblazers showcased all of their talent during their win against Sheldon of Sacramento causes them to join the mix as one of the historically great teams in California. But how high? We haven’t done […]
