One of the final regular season state leader positions switched after the CCS, NCS and Northern sections ended the regular season last week. The rest held steady. We also had Ferndale breaking a regular season state team scoring record by one point. Individually, the week’s best included 450 yards passing and seven TDs from Lancaster...
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SJS Bowls: Kids Just Want to Play
Will the first-ever bowl games played at the CIF section level in the state help with competitive matchups in the early round of playoffs? Some but not that much. Will they feel the same as a playoff game? It had elements of it, but we didn’t think so. They are like college bowl games in […]
FINAL Boys BB All-State Noms
This year will mark the 46h year of Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for boys hoops. Here is an updated list of nominees for all of this year’s All-State Boys Basketball Teams. Thanks to all who sent in information about players not on the first list and about those already listed. It’s is still not too...
FINAL Boys BB State TOP 40 Rankings
As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State TOP 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2024-25 season. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 30 update, as Stockton Lincoln’s performance in the CIF D1 state title game against No. 7 Sierra Canyon causes NorCal teams to jump...
Boys BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
All of the CIF state champions crowned last weekend in Sacramento are in the final No. 1 positions, but the runner-up is often not always going to be placed at No. 2. More adjustments also are made with teams from NorCal or SoCal going up or going down depending on what happened in the various...
Friday CIF State Finals
Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth boys make the plays in the final 90 seconds of the Division I championship game to turn back Lincoln of Stockton to win school’s fourth CIF state title. Carondelet of Concord girls win their second state title with a similar win in their D1 state final. Others claiming state crowns at […]
Boys BB CIF State Previews & Picks
It’s harder to pick teams to win in the lower divisions of the CIF state finals due to competitive equity seeding factors, but at the top the advantages for the CIF Southern Section teams haven’t gone anywhere in more than 10 years and that is the case once again. There is no CIFSS team in […]
Boys BB: NEW Division State Ranks
Here is the second installment of these divisional state rankings, which are updated through the regional semifinals played Saturday. The third installment will be the final rankings after next weekend’s CIF state championships. No. 1 teams are Roosevelt of Eastvale (Open), Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth (D1), Chatsworth (D2), King’s Academy of Sunnyvale (D3), Fresno Christian...
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...
SJS D1: Huge Lincoln win not expected
State No. 22 Trojans were too quick on defense and in transition for No. 24 Monterey Trail of Elk Grove in CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D1 quarterfinals, 77-43. The team will now play three-time defending SJS D1 champ Modesto Christian (No. 18) in next week’s semifinals. The other semi will feature No. 19 Inderkum of Sacramento […]
