Another season is now completely in the books and what a wild one it was. The seeding system employed by the CIF of blending the competitive equity formulas of all 10 sections, all different, had its flaws, and the further narrowing of the teams that really should qualify for the Open Division is something we...
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CIF Saturday Girls BB State Finals
With junior sensation Kaleena Smith leading the way, Ontario Christian completes its remarkable build from small school to CIF Open Division state champion with victory in long-anticipated matchup over Archbishop Mitty of San Jose. Sierra Pacific also wins All-Central Section D2 title and Faith Christian wins D4 title in last game of record-breaking career of […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
We begin this week with some explanations from the CIF and our own thoughts on Sunday’s release of pairings for both the NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs. We also have a big change at the top as Sierra Canyon has to move up to No. 1 after beating previous No. 1 Ontario Christian in the...
CCS Teams Wrap Up NorCal Top Seeds?
The Archbishop Riordan boys and the Archbishop Mitty girls both won, as expected, in a CIF Central Coast Section Open Division doubleheader played on Friday at USF. It’s a third straight section title for the Crusaders and it’s five in a row for the Monarchs. We have a lot more history set for the Mitty […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
At this stage of the season, with the CIF Southern Section playoffs already in full swing, and the other sections about ready to begin their playoff competition, the computerized seeding and rankings derived from them don’t really hold a lot of water moving forward. That’s because at this point all that really matters is head-to-head...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
There is only one newcomer to the Top 30 this week and that is a St. Joseph of Lakewood team that has high marks in the CIF Southern Section point system-based rankings. The biggest news also came from the CIFSS where the word is that there could be a ‘flex’ in CIF state berths which...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
As has been the case in years past, we follow up the preseason pankings with an initial first rankings prior to major tournaments like the Nike TOC in Arizona, the Nike Holiday Classic in Oregon and the West Coast Jamboree in the Bay Area. As of this time there is still a lot of uncertainty...
State Basketball Players of the Week
For the first week of the Cal-Hi Sports State Basketball Players of the Week for the 2025-26 season, we don’t have any entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book to track, which is one of the goals of the feature, but we more than accomplished the other goal. That is to find some hidden […]
Our Take: Woliczko chooses Iowa
In case you missed the news from early last week, Archbishop Mitty of San Jose 6-foot-2 senior wing McKenna Woliczko has committed to the University of Iowa. The big-time national recruit coming off of an ACL knee injury from last January that caused her to miss the rest of the season. While our report isn’t […]
Girls of Summer 2025: Player Rankings
For the 21st time since 2005, here’s a chart of the top players from California high school girls basketball viewed by the Girls of Summer Caravan during all events attended in person starting in June and extending into August. This time, it’s a list with more than 250 names. This isn’t a ranking of the...
