2 Oakland basketball teams make history with state championship titles

By KTVU staff

Updated March 13, 2023 1:14pm PDT

Oakland High School boys clinch Division 3 state championship

In a first for the school, Oakland High boys basketball team won first place in their division at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on Friday night.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Two teams from Oakland made history Friday night during the CIF state basketball championship.

Both the Oakland High boys team and the Oakland Tech girls team won first-place titles in their divisions at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.

For the OHS Wildcats, it was their first championship title.

Led by Coach Orlando Watkins, they beat Buena-Ventura 59-43.

The Oakland Tech Lady Bulldogs had already won Division IV in 2019 and Division III in 2022.

But the Division I state title was missing from their list of accomplishments until last night.

They took the title beating Santiago-Corona 75-52.

"They said we wouldn't make it back and we did!" the Lady Bulldogs tweeted. "Oakland we bringing it back!!!"