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Damien boys basketball team celebrates its CIF State Division I championship at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on Friday, March 13, 2026.

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Below is a score list and full stats from the CIF State 2026 high school boys and girls basketball champions on March 13-14 at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.

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Ontario Christian's Kaleena Smith is the No. 1 recruit in the 2027 class. She leads Knights to second straight Open Division championship. She had 24 points in a 56-49 win over Mitty.

Ontario Christian will be without freshman sensation Chloe Jenkins in second showdown this season of national powers

Cornerstone Christian Benjamin Lukacs with two of his game-high 26 points lifting the Cougars to a 74-64 CIF State Division 3 title win over Birmingham at Golden 1 Center on March 13, 2026

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SACRAMENTO — The final horn had sounded, his players celebrated wildly on the floor and 73-year-old coach Chris Lavdiotis, after giving a quick group hug with a

Ontario Christian's Kaleena Smith drives to the hoop against a Sierra Canyon defender in the CIF Southern Section Open Division final on Feb. 28, 2026. She leads her team into the state finals 6 p.m. Saturday against Mitty with a possible mythical national championship on the line.

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Sierra Canyon, Ontario Christian, Mitty play for national titles; Central Section takes center stage; Kaleen Smith makes debut; Jelani McCoy, McKenna Woliczko offer swan songs

Elias Obenyah lifted Salesian over the top with 16 of his game-high 20 points after the third quarter in a 59-54 overtime win at Riordan in the NorCal Open championship on March 10, 2026

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Rested Salesian stifles St. Ignatius, plays dominating Riordan for Open championship; Mitty girls roll, Clovis West edges St. Mary's

Carlton Perrilliat Jr. puts the finishing touches in the middle of the fourth quarter on Salesian's 61-41 win over St. Ignatius for the CIF Northern California Open Division semifinal victory at Contra Costa College on March 7, 2026

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Rested Salesian stifles St. Ignatius, plays dominating Riordan for Open championship; Mitty girls roll, Clovis West edges St. Mary's

Riordan's Emmanuel Ahamefule ready to lead the Crusaders into Saturday's home semifinal against the Crusaders of Modesto Christian

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St. Ignatius-Riordan, Modesto Christian-Riordan boys, San Ramon Valley-Mitty, St. Mary's-Clovis West girls are the Open Division semifinal pairings on Saturday

San Ramon Valley High School's girls basketball team finally celebrate in the final 10 seconds of their 51-44 win at Carondelet March 4 in the CIF Northern California Open Division first-round game just four days after being beat by the same Cougars for the North Coast Section Open championship.

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Freshman post Presley Uchikura gives career performance, now going to face national power Mitty and McDonald's All-American McKenna Woliczko

Mitty wins fifth straight Central Coast Section Open Division title, this one after 90-31 win over Riordan at USF

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SAN FRANCISCO — They honored Mitty’s girls basketball team even before winning a 34th Central Coast Section championship and 11th at the Open Division title wit

Notre Dame's NaVorro Bowman Jr. handles the ball in a game against Sierra Canyon at the Intuit Dome.

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Heading into the postseason — more than half the state is done with the regular season — here's the best of the best in the Golden State

Sierra Canyon's Maxi Adams gave an impressive performance in a victory over Columbus (FL) in the 2026 Hoophall Classic. The Trailblazers are the No. 1 team in California's Top 25 boys basketball rankings for Jan. 27.

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With the regular season winding down in parts of the state, here's the latest high school rankings in the Golden State

USF-signee Andrew Hilman goes up over two defenders to make a game-winning shot for Riordan over Riordan at War Memorial Gym on the campus of USF.

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At his future college gym, Riordan's Andrew Hilman hits improbable midrange jumper at USF to extend West Catholic Athletic League win streak to 35 games with wild win over St. Ignatius

Modesto Christian’s Trevor Dickson went for 22 points including four three-pointers but it wasn’t quite enough against a determined Riordan squad in the 10th Crush in the Valley Showcase Saturday at Napa Valley College

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Florida national power Prolific Prep returns to home base in Napa to host star-studded event that also includes showdown of future Stanfords stars Julius Price, Elias Obenyah

Prolific Prep junior guard Nasir Anderson with a throw down early in the 2025-26 season.

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Florida national power Prolific Prep returns to home base in Napa to host star-studded event that also includes showdown of future Stanfords stars Julius Price, Elias Obenyah

Stanford-signee Julius Price with two of his 16 points helping the Knights to a 19-point victory over host De La Salle at the 28th MLK Classic on Monday. St. Joseph moved up a sport this week in the High School On SI California rankings.

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The state's elite and its order taking shape after busy, competitive, MLK Jr. Holiday week

King's Academy senior Claxton Ladine (11) goes up to contest a shot by Xane Machle of Riverside Poly in the second game of the MLK Classic at De La Salle on Monday.

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St. Joseph, Riordan and Salesian among the top squads at the longstanding event to honor the civil rights leader

Julius Price, of No. 3 St. Joseph-Santa Maria, swoops in for two of his 16 points in Saturday's 76-67 win over No. 9 Salesian in the Crush in the Valley Showcase in San Pablo Calif. Price and his brother Malcolm are at least two Knights on the list as well as three Salesian players heading into Monday's MLK Classic at De La Salle.

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Five top 20 senior prospects in California are among the players to watch at the longtime showcase that features seven games on MLK Day

Jan 9, 2026; Denver, Colorado, USA; Atlanta Hawks guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker (7) defends on Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon (32) in the second quarter at Ball Arena. Gordon may be the best player under any criteria to ever play in the Martin Luther King Classic presented by De La Salle. The 28th annual event takes place Monday at the Concord campus. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images

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Always room for debate when looking over the last 27 boys basketball showcases in Northern California's Bay Area, but no questioning these 28 players have been something special

St. Joseph-Santa Maria senior guard Julius Price has been a starter for one of the state's top teams for four seasons and after this season is headed to Stanford to play. St. Joseph takes on the host team De La Salle in one of the prime matchups of Monday's 28th Martin Luther King Jr. Classic.

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St. Joseph, Riordan and Salesian among the top squads at the longstanding event to honor the civil rights leader

Brandon McCoy Jr. throws down a dunk in his Sierra Canyon debut against JSerra at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday, November 22.

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Southern Section dominates as usual with 18 of the top 25, including the five best led by Sierra Canyon, which doesn't exactly breeze in the first week of the Mission League

Kaleena Smith, Ontario Christian junior point guard and No. 1 recruit for the 2027 class, outdid herself if that's possible with a 50-point explosion lead her No. 1 ranked team in the country over No. 3 Mitty in a double-overtime classic.

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The nation's No. 1 recruit finishes off one of great girls baksetball in history with 11 in second overtime as top-ranked Ontario Christian fights back to stun No. 3 Mitty.

Mitty then junior McKenna Woliczko during first-quarter action in last season's 61-44 loss to Ontario Christian at the Sabrina Ionescu Classic in Concord on Jan. 4, 2025. With her team up 19-17, Woliczko went down with a season-ending knee injury. She played in her first two games over the last week since the injury and now prepares to play the Knights Saturday in a national showdown at Mater Dei in Santa Ana. | Photo: Dennis Lee

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Two teams with lots of very recent history meet at Mater Dei in a likely showdown to determine early California state champion and national championship favorite

USF-bound point guard Andrew Hilman leads Riordan in the 8:30 p.m. game against Monte Vista at the first Bay Area Challenge basketball event at Bellarmine High School in San Jose Jan. 3, 2026

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All-day showcase at Bellarmine starts at 9:30 a.m. and concludes with state power Riordan taking on upstart Monte Vista

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All-day showcase at Bellarmine starts at 9:30 a.m. and concludes with state power Riordan taking on upstart Monte Vista

File photo of McKenna Woliczko during first-quarter action of last season's Jan. 6 game against Ontario Christian, the game she tore her ACL and MCL. The nation's No. 6 recruit from the Class of 2026 returned to the court Friday in a nonleague home game with Clovis.

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California girls basketball national power Mitty welcomes two-time national player of the year back and her performance offers a surprise