By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Seaman's girls and Highland Park's boys climbed to No. 2 in the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association's Class 5A state rankings while Topeka HIgh's girls returned to the top 10 in 6A and Rossville's girls cracked the rankings in 3A.
Seaman and Highland Park both moved from No. 3 to the second spot in 5A while Silver Lake held on to the No. 2 spot in the latest 3A girls rankings, released Tuesday.
Topeka High returned to the 6A girls rankings at No. 10 after winning the Hardwood Classic in De Soto while Rossville made its debut at No. 10 in the 3A girls rankings after winning the Irish Classic in Chapman.
Hayden's boys remained No. 3 in 4A while Topeka West's boys dropped a spot to No. 8 in 5A despite two double-digit wins.
KANSAS BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION STATE RANKINGS
GIRLS
Class 6A
1. Blue Valley North; 2. Olathe North; 3. Shawnee Mission South; 4. Wichita Heights; 5. Liberal; 6. Shawnee Mission Northwest; 7. Lawrence; 8. Blue Valley; 9. Wichita South; 10. Topeka High.
Class 5A
1. St. Thomas Aquinas; 2. Seaman; 3. Emporia; 4. St. James Academy; 5. Bishop Carroll; 6. De Soto; 7. Goddard Eisenhower; 8. Hutchinson; 9. Bonner Springs; 10. Hays.
Class 4A
1. Bishop Miege; 2. Wameo; 3. Wellington; 4. McPherson; 5. Hugoton; 6. Andale; 7. Rock Creek; 8. Baldwin; 9. Independence; 10. Fort Scott.
Class 3A
1. Goodland; 2. Silver Lake; 3. Phillipsburg; 4. Nemaha Central; 5. Southeast-Saline; 6. Cheney; 7 Eureka; 8. Cimmaron; 9. Haven; 10. Rossville.
Class 2A
1. Berean Academy; 2. Jackson Heights; 3. Smith Center; 4. Hillsboro; 5. Garden Plain; 6. St. Mary's Colgan; 7. Remington; 8. Hoxie; 9. Valley Heights; 10. Independent.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Little River; 2. Osborne; 3. Pretty Prairie; 4. Hodgeman County; 5. Central Plains; 6. Centralia; 7. Clifton-Clyde; 8. Madison-Hamilton; 9 Burlingame; 10. Frankfort.
Class 1A-Division II
1. Hanover; 2. Lebo; 3. Central Christian; 4. Ashland; 5. Attica; 6. Golden Plains; 7. Ingalls; 8. South Central; 9. St. Paul; 10. Bucklin.
BOYS
Class 6A
1. Wichita Heights; 2. Olathe West; 3. Blue Valley North; 4. Blue Valley Northwest; 5. Lawrence; 6. Derby; 7. Olathe North; 8. Olathe Northwest; 9. Free State; 10. Shawnee Mission East.
Class 5A
1. Maize South; 2. Highland Park; 3. Kapaun Mt. Carmel; 4. De Soto; 5. Andover; 6. St. James Academy; 7. Basehor-Linwood; 8. Topeka West; 9. St. Thomas Aquinas; 10. Hutchinson.
Class 4A
1. McPherson; 2. Bishop Miege; 3. Hayden; 4. Circle; 5. Atchison; 6. Eudora; 7. Abilene; 8. Wamego; 9. Rock Creek; 10 Wellington.
Class 3A
1. Southeast-Salina; 2. Sabetha; 3. Osage City; 4. Hesston; 5. Cheney; 6. Wichita Collegiate; 7. Haven; 8. Galena; 9. Wellsville; 10. Bishop Ward.
Class 2A
1. TMP-Marian; 2. Moundridge; 3. Inman; 4. Ellinwood; 5. Lyndon; 6. Bennington; 7. Sterling; 8. Wichita Independent; 9. Hillsboro; 10. Wabaunsee.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Olpe; 2. Centralia; 3. Macksville; 4. Burlingame; 5. Canton-Galva; 6. Madison-Hamilton; 7. Little River; 8. Wichita Classical; 9. Clifton-Clyde; 10. Troy.
Class 1A-Division II
1. Greeley County; 2. Hanover; 3. Northern Valley; 4. Pawnee Heights; 5. Cunningham; 6. Bucklin; 7. Lebo; 8. Dighton; 9. Axtell; 10. South Central.