The 2023-2024 high school basketball season had some first time experiences, as well as some records set. Centennial of Bakersfield won the CIF SoCal Regional Championship; Clovis North won the Division 1 Section Title over the favored St. Joseph Knights; North Bakersfield won its first Section Title in school history, as well as the Final 4 for State Division 5 Playoffs;  St. Joseph and Sierra won the Northern California Championships in the Open Division and Division 5 respectively. Clovis West & Clovis North gave us another classic end of regular season game, North Bakersfield and ..read more

Central Section – The high school basketball season has come to an end and the club season is already underway with some quality events on the calendar over the next two months. Furthermore, the transfer portal is in full swing at the moment with thousands of players entering over the last two weeks and college coaches and programs scouring the portal for older and experienced players that have already proven what they can do at the college ranks. Therefore, it is no secret that the transfer portal has hurt the recruitment of high school players that are not top 150 nationally ranked prospects ..read more

Central Section – Another entertaining high school basketball season in California has come to an end with Harvard-Westlake of Studio City winning its second consecutive Open Division State Championship with a win over Salesian of Richmond on Saturday, March 9th. This article provides the final Top 15 Team Rankings for the Central Section for the 2023-2024 season. This season was filled with major first-time accomplishments, intriguing match-ups, and spectacular individual records. Clovis North defied the critics and won its first Division 1 Central Section Title under the Connor Amundsen era ..read more

The 2024 Pangos Best of SoCal League tipped-off last weekend (March 2nd) at McBride HS/Long Beach CA) and runs through March 11th – giving us a good view of several top prospects from Southern California and beyond.  Other media, scouts and video-outlets on hand scouting, photographing and video-taping include Frank Burlison (BurlisonOnBasketball.com), Ronnie Flores (Ball is Life), Greg Stein (Prep Hoops), Alex Carmon (Beach City Hoops) and Nick Koza (SportsAmp). Full length video re-plays of all past Pangos Best of SoCal League games are now available on replay from Baller TV:  htt ..read more

Central Section, CA – The regular season and league play are halfway over and the Saturday showcase events have wrapped up for the 2023-2024 season. There are two weeks left of league play and playoff positioning is starting to unfold. There have been some huge games over the past few weeks with some key games still left to decide the outcome of the regular season. Therefore, it is an ideal time of the basketball season to update my team rankings. Over the past few weeks St. Joseph has continued to roll, Clovis North earned a big win over Clovis West to grab hold of 1st place in the TRAC, Cent ..read more

Fresno, CA – This past Saturday, January 20th, I attended the annual Pagmeter Showcase held at Fresno Christian High School. The showcase featured 8 games with teams from various areas throughout the Central Section, along with NorCal powerhouse Modesto Christian as the non-Central Section team in attendance. Games started at 10 a.m. and ended with the final game of the event at 8:00 p.m. The marquee game of the showcase featured defending Division 2 State Champs San Joaquin Memorial of Fresno against Modesto Christian, who were the NorCal Open Champs just two years ago.  In Game #6 of th ..read more

Sanger, CA – Last Saturday, January 6th, the Sanger Apaches hosted their annual Central Valley Showdown powered by NorCal Sports TV. The event featured 8 games, primarily between Central Section teams with the addition of Monterey High School from NorCal. I arrived for the 2nd game of the showcase between Redwood of Visalia and Washington Union of Fresno and wrapped the day up with the host team Sanger taking on Clovis East. The event featured some great match-ups, highlighted by the game between Sierra of Tollhouse and Edison of Fresno, as senior Logan Kilbert entered the game needing 25 poin ..read more

La Verne, CA – Last week I attended the prestigious Classic at Damien for the first time and it was an outstanding event in so many facets. Top teams from California and surrounding states on display, elite match-ups in every round of play, top prospects from the Western region, top media and scouts in attendance, and great personnel and staff from the host school Damien High School. I arrived on Wednesday, December 27th and stayed until Friday evening, December 29th. I was mostly there to watch the Platinum Division, but also caught games in the Gold and Diamond Divisions.  The following ..read more

Central Section, CA – The New Year is upon us and the holiday hoops tournament portion of the season has wrapped up. This is a perfect time of the basketball season to update my team rankings. Over the past few weeks teams like St. Joseph, Clovis West, and Clovis North have played against some of the nations top teams; Sanger, North Bakersfield, and Arroyo Grande have all won tournaments; and Bullard and Edison have their full rosters ready for league play.  In this article, I provide a breakdown of my updated Top 15 Team Rankings. I discuss where and why I have each team in the spot they ..read more

La Verne, CA – This past week I attended the prestigious Classic at Damien for the first time and it was an outstanding event in so many facets. Top teams from California and surrounding states on display, elite match-ups in every round of play, top prospects from the Western region, top media and scouts in attendance, and great personnel and staff from the host school Damien High School. I arrived on Wednesday, December 27th and stayed until Friday evening, December 29th. I was mostly there to watch the Platinum Division, but also caught games in the Gold and Diamond Divisions.  The foll ..read more