California Community Colleges
California has 116 community colleges, most of which have basketball programs
California Community Colleges
This is the marketing website for Cali JUCO’s in general…it pitches the advantages of JUCO, a quick career opportunities quiz that might be useful, a search engine for community colleges near a given location, discussion on their degree and certificate programs, a writeup on transferring to a four-year college, and financial aid programs. The search engine is very useful for finding all Cali JUCO’s that have programs in a certain area, e.g. you can search for kinesiology and find all schools that have this. However, I would not consider this definitive; “umbrella” websites like this do get out of date when things change at various schools. To be more certain, check the website for the specific school around what programs/degrees they provide, or will be providing in the near future.
CCCApply
This provides an umbrella website for applying to a school.
It also has various tools:
Locate and Compare Colleges: find a school based on location or the programs offered - this is a useful search engine, it helps to map out the JUCO’s close to a given city.
California Virtual Campus: online courses
CalAbroad: opportunities to study abroad
California CareerZone: tool for exploring jobs; this may or may not be useful - it’s a variation on what you’ll see in Naviance. Who knows, maybe it’s much better.
Admission Requirements: California community colleges are required to admit any California resident possessing a high school diploma or the equivalent.
California Community College Athletic Association
The CCCAA is the junior college athletic association specific to California, and independent of the national NJCAA. From the wikipedia page:
The California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) is a sports association of community colleges in the U.S. state of California. It oversees 108 athletic programs throughout the state… Over 26,000 student athletes participate annually in intercollegiate athletics at California’s community colleges and more than 100 regional and state final events produce champions in 24 men’s and women’s sports each year. The majority of student athletes participating at a California community college transfer to a four-year college or university to continue their academic and athletic endeavors.
That wikipedia page goes on to list all of the conferences (about a dozen, from what I can tell), with each of the schools in that conference, links to the wikipedia page for each school, and each of the wikipedia pages providing links to that school’s website.
The CCCAA website has a basketball-specific page, where perhaps of most interest you can find rankings for a given basketball season and individual stats leaders. You’ll find the leading 3-pt percentages are in the high 40’s and points/game in mid-20’s.
Eligibility
JUCO eligibility requirements, from this NCSA article:
Junior colleges simply require that a student-athlete be a high school graduate, earning an approved standard academic diploma. Student-athletes can also be eligible if they’ve completed an approved high school equivalency test, like the GED. Learn more about junior college eligibility on their website.
Many athletes who aren’t able to meet the NCAA or NAIA eligibility requirements will gain eligibility by competing at a junior college for two years. Or, sometimes, athletes who unsure of their major, will attend a junior college while they decide what their four-year course of study will be.
From the CCCAA website, we have this list of topics for prospective and current athletes, with perhaps most interesting the CCCAA Eligibility Rules and CCCAA Recruiting Rules.