There are six newcomers this week, led by new No. 33 St. Paul of Santa Fe Springs after its big win over previous No. 28 Culver City. Three others still playing and going for section titles this week are Loyola of Los Angeles, San Joaquin Memorial of Fresno and Oceanside. We’ve also now reached that...
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Preseason Girls BB State Ranks (1-15)
There’s been a handful of squads that have already hit the court, but we’re still calling it preseason for the rankings and writeups that are below. Just like the boys, Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth has a CIF Open Division defending state champion that has a loaded roster on the girls side and starts out at […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Vista Murrieta and Cardinal Newman make returns to the State Top 50 this week, but for different reasons. We also welcome in for the first time Oxnard and Steele Canyon of Spring Valley. One of those beat a previously ranked team to go in. The other is on track to be 9-0 when it faces...
Preseason Redwood Empire FB Team
It has been no secret that Marin Catholic (Kentfield), Cardinal Newman (Santa Rosa) and Rancho Cotate (Rohnert Park) have been the class of the Redwood Empire portion of the CIF North Coast Section for recent years. But even after a realignment that sees the NCS going to a seven division format plus an 8-man division,...
Girls BB All-State Nominees Part 1
Like the boys several days ago, we are beginning the process toward selection of the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in girls basketball with this first list of those honored as nominees. Some of the earliest selections include Cheryl Miller (Riverside Poly 1982), Violet Palmer (Compton 1982) and Lisa Leslie (Inglewood Morningside soph 1988). […]
State Rankings By CIF Divisions
We can’t do divisional state basketball rankings anymore during the regular season because there’s no way to know (thanks to competitive equity seeding) which divisions to place any of these teams. Now that brackets are out, though, we can apply our own rankings system to the teams in both the NorCal and SoCal playoffs and […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the first time in this honors’ program history, we’ve chosen two players from great games played on a Saturday who then had their teams play against each other on a Monday. That can only happen on MLK weekend. For the boys, we were more normal going with hair-raising scoring outputs from players representing regions […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
In the midst of senior quarterbacks like Jayden Daniels (Cajon), Trent Tompkins (Fresno Central) and Nathan Lamb (Tulare) continuing to add to their totals, junior QB Jackson Pavitt of Cardinal Newman (Santa Rosa) steals the show by going 24 of 25 for 382 yards in a playoff game. We also go over why Fontana Kaiser’s...