As the NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs begin this week, we run down the first round matchups in our latest State Top 30 boys basketball rankings. CIF Central Section D1 champ St. Joseph gets the No. 2 seed in SoCal open, but that doesn’t mean it moved up to No. 2 in the state. It...
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NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
For the second consecutive week, there is plenty of change in the bottom half of the latest State Top 30 boys basketball rankings, and once again it’s the results of the CIFSS D1 playoffs that have teams shuffling around. There is also a new state No. 1 after Harvard-Westlake goes down for the first time...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’26 Player Ranks
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs rolls on with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. We just published our 2025 Hot 100 for seniors and now we take a look at the Hot 100 juniors (2026), which has the best crop of players at the top since at...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
We do this week’s State Top 30 boys basketball rankings thinking about all those affected by the devastating SoCal wildfires. A handful of games were canceled and some won’t be played this week, but a vast majority of SoCal teams play on. Mater Dei of Santa Ana is back in the Top 20 after one...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
The career state scoring record is beginning to come into focus for Santa Maria St. Joseph standout Tounde Yessofou, who already has 29 and 30 points in two games this week. He’s close to moving up to eighth on the all-time state list and recently became the 11th in state history to reach 3,000. Tyran...
Baseball: All-State Underclass 2024
It’s time to start releasing the various teams for the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball honors. We begin with a new way of doing the all-state underclass teams and that’s doing the juniors and sophomores separately (just like football and basketball). We have a first and second team all-state for juniors and first team...
All-State Boys BB 2024: First Team
Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year Trent Perry from CIF Open Champ Harvard-Westlake of Studio City, finalist Mercy Miller of nearby Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and NorCal Player of the Year Aaron Hunkin-Claytor of NorCal open champ Salesian of Richmond are among those near the top of the 45th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state boys […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
As the regular season is about to end in the CIF Southern Section, a loss by Corona last week does not cause a change at the top of the state rankings. The win by La Mirada, however, does push that team up into the top 10 of this week’s rankings. Clovis also makes a huge...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Unbeaten Granada of Livermore gets to move up to the top of the heap with plenty of tough games remaining in a very competitive league. Previous No. 1 Corona only drops one spot after loss to Mater Dei, which now goes back up into the top 10. Serra of San Mateo also moves up into...
Mr. Basketball 2024: Trent Perry
In another close race for Mr. Basketball, what Trent Perry did for CIF Open Division state champ Harvard-Westlake is just too hard to ignore. Today, the two-time state champion edges another San Fernando Valley standout who played in the same league for California’s most prestigious, long-running individual honor. For this season’s State Players of the […]
