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Boys BB: 2022-23 Transfer Rundown

Here’s a quick-hitting list of transfers that will impact this year’s boys basketball state rankings. It’s been a hectic off-season and we offer a rundown of where some of California’s elite players ended up, including some who left the state, and some who just transferred as recently as the past week. Look for our preseason Cal-Hi […]

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NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings

Losing one game at the National High School Invitational does not drop Orange Lutheran from the No. 1 California ranking. There also were no changes this week until No. 8. Three teams all playing in this week’s NorCal part of the annual Boras Classic – Palo Alto, Cardinal Newman and Woodcreek – all got big...

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NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings

Santa Margarita sweeps JSerra to go to 12-0 and replaces Servite with No. 2 state ranking behind No. 1 Orange Lutheran. No, they don’t play each other this week, but both have tough three-game sets in the Trinity League. Others getting big bumps include new No. 6 California of San Ramon and new No. 10...

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FINAL Boys BB State TOP 40 (Part 1)

As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2021-22 season, the first with CIF state championships since 2018-19. There is not a lot of movement from our previous weekly Top 25 update, but NorCal teams don’t drop much because of Modesto Christian’s...

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Girls BB State Team of Year 2022

It’s an obvious situation to list our annual State Team of the Year in girls hoops as the same as the CIF Open Division state champion. After COVID wiped out the 2020 and 2021 championships, however, this year’s honoree, Sierra Canyon, also represents a return to normalcy. The Trailblazers also just happen to be same […]

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Girls BB: CIF Saturday Finals

When the CIF last staged staged state championships in basketball in 2019, the Open Division girls champion was Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth. Much has changed in the world since then due to COVID, but the Trailblazers have returned to the top of California girls hoops with an impressive win over Archbishop Mitty of San Jose. […]

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CIF Basketball Picks & Previews

Here are the predicted scores, what to watch for and more for each of the 12 CIF boys and girls basketball state championship games coming up this weekend in Sacramento. We will focus most on the Open Division and Division I, but also have the picks for each of the other divisions too. NorCal teams […]

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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings

The pecking order for this week’s next to last rankings was set with the Monday morning release of the Girls BB: State Rankings By Division so these rankings will mirror them. Now we explain it. There were some changes in the top 14 spots which belong to Open teams and there was some movement after...

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NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings

Orange Lutheran, as expected, takes over at No. 1 after winning PBR tournament. Others moving up include new No. 2 Yucaipa, new top 10 Corona, new No. 11 Bullard of Fresno and newcomers Palo Alto & Rancho Bernardo. All top 25 teams written up with highlights, 10 more teams have been ranked in order and...

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NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings

There were some terrific matchups last week, but the only changes are at the bottom of this week’s boys basketball State Top 25 rankings as the post-season nears. A couple of close games could have altered the rankings significantly if the underdogs pulled out victories, but in most instances the higher ranked teams won. Newcomers...

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