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, […]
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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...
Girls BB Final Divisional Rankings
In conjunction with our final, expanded State Top 35 rankings, we also are releasing our final divisional state rankings for girls basketball. We have expanded each division by five teams and we list teams to watch for the 2017-18 season. Teams getting moved up for the final rankings include Brea Olinda of Brea (D1), Chaminade...
Girls BB Divisional State Rankings
California’s No. 1 teams according to our rankings heading into the CIF state championships continue to be Archbishop Mitty of San Jose (Open), Windward of Los Angeles (D1), Mater Dei of Santa Ana (D2), Campolindo of Moraga (D3), West Campus of Sacramento (D4) and Eastside Prep of East Palo Alto (D5). If you can’t see...
Girls BB Divisional State Rankings
All 16 teams are listed in the Open Division followed by top 10s for each of the five CIF state divisions. Our No. 1 teams heading into first-round games are Archbishop Mitty of San Jose (Open), Windward of Los Angeles (D1), Mater Dei of Santa Ana (D2), Campolindo of Moraga (D3), West Campus of Sacramento...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
One of this week’s honorees is proving that there is more than just one big-time player headed to the USC women’s program. She’s also going where her older brother already plays. Other choices this week are from Los Angeles, Oakland and Richmond.