The 44th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Team announcements begin with honors for the most outstanding juniors, sophomores and freshmen in the state. While this is a Gold Club post, the one for all-state teams according to CIF divisions will be free and will be out in a few days later this week. Note:...
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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The seedings are in and there weren’t any surprises when it came to the CIF Southern and Northern Regional Open Division other then the fact there really aren’t enough open-level teams to properly seed an eight-team bracket, so the CIF contracted it to just about the bare minimum by seeding only 10 teams total, five...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The CIF Southern Section playoffs are under way and there were no surprises in Open Division pool play matchups, nor was there any surprises in the two games that CIFSS Division 1 top seed Rosary played last week. As for the other CIF sections, the playoffs are beginning this week and the CIF North Coast...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. And this week there were milestones galore, especially from just Tuesday night of this week when we had girls scoring 61 and 60 points in a game plus a freshman boy with 60. Last week on the same night we...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
We had our first big shakeup among the top seven teams when the upset bug bit in the CIF Central Section, but it might not be as big of a shakeup as some might think. In the CIF Southern Section, the eight teams in the Open Pool play bracket are starting to take shape in...
All-State Girls BB: 2nd & 3rd Team
Here’s where to go to see all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. Many of these honorees represented the second and sometimes third top player from teams that were in the top 10 of the final state...
State Coach of Year: Stephen Pezzola
Richmond Salesian’s Stephen Pezzola is a former corporate attorney and currently his school’s president. But his commitment to the girls basketball team and its players has been obvious since he began coaching in 2009-10, and now those efforts have been recognized by his selection for the highest coaching honor in the state. This is the […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The rest of the state will be joining the CIF Southern Section as playoffs begin this week for the other nine sections. Speaking of the Southern Section, first round play in the Open Division didn’t produce any upsets but the two Pool A games were closer than expected. This week’s two newcomers are Oak Ridge...
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
The funnel is now as narrow as it gets with just two games remaining in each and all of the six CIF state divisions, and to no one’s surprise the top seeds held suit in the CIF Open Division regional semifinals. Those teams are now all ranked in the top nine for the state, led...