After a one week hiatus, these honors are back and we have some real talent to reveal in our two Northern and two Southern California stops. Our first NorCal stop is in Los Altos Hills in the Bay Area. From there we head to Coalinga in the CIF Central Section. After that we start the […]
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Girls State Athletes of the Year
This is the final 2020-21 state honor to be completed and it’s the girls version of the boys that was announced yesterday. By our evaluations, there were three girls that stood above all others with one who was a senior, the other a junior and the other a sophomore. The top honoree is national record-breaking […]
Girls BB: Divisional All-State 2021
Just like the boys, there are 144 players who have been named for these annual all-state teams according to five divisions. This is the 41st consecutive year of Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams in girls basketball (just one less year than boys). Schools that won CIF SoCal regional titles in those divisions had an advantage in […]
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs in the CIF Southern, San Diego, Central and Central Coast Sections have concluded this past week and they have crowned their champions. Now, the Open Division teams from all but the Central Coast Section are moving on to the CIF Southern Regional Playoffs along with other teams that qualified for an expanded playoff...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It’s the next to last installment of this feature for this pandemic-affected and shortened season, but we can keep going with the CIF Central Coast Section still going until Saturday of this weekend. We have a CCS girl chosen this week for the north combined with a NorCal boys’ player who was sensational in his […]
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs are under way in the CIF Southern Section and as expected there were no upsets in the first round of Open Division Pool A and Pool B play. Playoffs will also be getting underway this week in the CIF Central Section and the CIF San Diego Section feeding into the Southern California regionals,...
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...
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
Over the first weeks of these rankings, we’ve tried to be fair since this spring season is an anomaly in more than one way. Not only did it start when it should have ended, the CIF relaxing its bylaws to allow for club and high school competition to go on simultaneously has caused many of...
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
Trying to do a First Look rankings last week with half the state still not in action was tough to say the least but with the pandemic still having an effect on things and some teams still not in action or with only one or two games under their belts further complicating things, this first...
Girls BB: Pinewood keeps climbing
Los Altos Hills school wins Platinum Division at the West Coast Jamboree with a slug-it-out victory over Salesian of Richmond in title game matchup of two state top 10 squads. The elite division at one of the state’s top tournaments also concluded on Saturday with state No. 9 Carondelet of Concord taking third-place and with […]
