Two of these honorees were among those written up after the 2020 season as Isuneh “Ice” Brady of San Diego Cathedral Catholic and Jazmine Soto of Strathmore were given the accolades for sophomores and for CIF Division V, respectively. Brady is now on top for juniors while Soto has repeated for her division. Both the […]
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State Coach of Year: Martin Woods
Before the fireworks went off, Corona Centennial’s Josh Giles was selected State Coach of the Year in boys basketball. The fireworks may be cooling, but the school keeps on sparkling with Martin Woods named as State Coach of the Year for girls basketball. This is the first time a school has had both state coaches […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
We still have a couple more final football players listed as there were still games played last weekend, but most of this week’s standouts are from boys & girls hoops, baseball & softball, including one player from a 43-0 rout in baseball that makes it into the state record book. And in the same week...
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
Lack of action may be a factor in some of the Northern California squads not being real sharp yet as some have only played two games, and some still none, while teams in the CIF Southern, San Diego and Central Sections have played as many as 16 games. No. 1 Mater Dei was especially sharp...
Insider Report: Windward (LA)
We are continuing with a series of girls basketball preseason-style features on some of the state’s most prominent programs and players for the 2020-21 school year. It’s almost been one year since any of them have played and it may end up being until December of 2021 for some. We hope that isn’t the case, […]
Girls BB: State’s 30 Greatest Teams
Just a couple of weeks after we did the same for the boys, for the first time ever we present our writeups of the 30 greatest girls basketball teams in state history. This follows previous presentations for football, baseball and softball. The criteria for what we’re looking for is explained in this free, introductory post […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
Now is when the rubber really meets the road as the drive to the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento for the March 8-9 state championships begins this week. There were not a lot of surprises in the Open Division selections for Northern California since we knew with a lack of Open Division level teams in...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Ranks
Southern California still has two of the top three teams in the rankings, except there is a change in the third spot. Bishop Montgomery also moves up as a prized transfer becomes eligible. We also have three newcomers with the highest being Heritage of Brentwood, which cracks the Top 20 for the first time in...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Ranks
We had a lot of changes in the top 10 with a new No. 1 and with Redondo Union coming in big time that also dropped several other teams in the second 10 a spot as well. For the final week of December tournaments, eight of the top 13 teams are at the West Coast...
