By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
The Washburn Rural and Topeka High girls are ranked second and eighth in Class 6A in the first Kansas Basketball Coaches Association state rankings of the regular season.
Both the Junior Blues and Trojans are 1-0 on the season entering Tuesday night's games, with Rural taking a 54-14 win over Topeka West and Topeka High beating Manhattan, 63-41, in last Friday's season-openers.
Senior Emma Krueger (11) and the Washburn Rural girls are currently ranked No. 2 in Class 6A in the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association state rankings. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN'
Defending 6A champion Shawnee Mission Northwest is ranked No. 1 in 6A while other top-ranked teams in the KBCA rankings include St. Thomas Aquinas (5A), Bishop Miege (4A), Hugoton (3A), Sterling (2A), Little River (1A-Division I) and Central Plains (1A-Division II).
No Shawnee County boys teams are ranked in this week's KBCA rankings.
Top-ranked boys teams include Free State (6A), Maize (5A), Bishop Miege (4A), Hesston (3A), Hillsboro (2A), Olpe (1A-Division I) and Hanover (1A-Division II).
KANSAS BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION STATE RANKINGS
GIRLS
Class 6A
1. Shawnee Mission Northwest; 2. Washburn Rural; 3. Olathe North; 4. Shawnee Mission West; 5. Blue Valley North; 6. Derby; 7. Dodge City; 8. Topeka High; 9. Wichita Heights; 10. Olathe Northwest.
Class 5A
1. St. Thomas Aquinas; 2. Andover Central; 3. Salina Central; 4. Lansing; 5. Maize; 6. St. James Academy; 7. Maize South; 8. Emporia; 9. Bishop Carroll; 10. Goddard Eisenhower.
Class 4A
1. Bishop Miege; 2. Louisburg; 3. Andale; 4. Paola; 5. Clearwater; 6. McPherson; 7. Labette County; 8. Wellington; 9. Eudora; 10. Wamego.
Class 3A
1. Hugoton; 2. Cheney; 3. Nickerson; 4. Goodland; 5. Phillipsburg; 6. Eureka; 7. Nemaha Central; 8. Haven; 9. Southeast-Saline; 10. Hesston.
Class 2A
1. Sterling; 2. St. Mary's Colgan; 3. Garden Plain; 4. Smith Center; 5. Valley Heights; 6. Hillsboro; 7. Trego Community; 8. Wabaunsee; 9. Atchison County; 10. Moundridge.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Little River; 2. Burlingame; 3. St. John-Hudson; 4. Pretty Prairie; 5. Centralia; 6. South Central; 7. Doniphan West; 8. Spearville; 9. Osborne; 10. St. Paul.
Class 1A-Division II
1. Central Plains; 2. Hanover; 3. Lebo; 4. Golden Plains; 5. Hutchinson Central Christian; 6. Wheatland-Grinnell; 7. St. John's-Beloit; 8. Attica; 9. Dighton; 10. South Haven..
BOYS
Class 6A
1. Free State; 2. Shawnee Mission Northwest; 3. Wichita Heights; 4. Blue Valley Northwest; 5. Blue Valley West; 6. Blue Valley North; 7. Lawrence; 8. Olathe South; 9. Blue Valley; 10. Dodge City.
Class 5A
1. Maize; 2. Basehor-Linwood; 3. Andover; 4. Blue Valley Southwest; 5. Kapaun Mt. Carmel; 6. Bishop Carroll; 7. Maize South; 8. Hays; 9. St. James Academy; 10. Andover Central.
Class 4A
1. Bishop Miege; 2. Tonganoxie; 3. Louisburg; 4. Rose Hill; 5. McPherson; 6. Abilene; 7. Buhler; 8. Wamego; 9. Parsons; 10. Holton.
Class 3A
1. Hesston; 2. Galena; 3. Royal Valley; 4. Wichita Collegiate; 5. Cheney; 6. Nemaha Central; 7. TMP-Marian; 8. Wichita Trinity; 9. Hugoton; 10. Holcomb.
Class 2A
1. Hillsboro; 2. St. Mary's; 3. Wabaunsee; 4. Lyndon; 5. Inman; 6. Valley Falls; 7. Ellinwood; 8. Jefferson County North; 9. Erie; 10. Trego Community.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Olpe; 2. South Gray; 3. Troy; 4. Little River; 5. Meade; 6. Centralia; 7. Wichita Classical School; 8. Solomon; 9. Frankfort; 10. Osborne.
Class 1A-Division II
1. Hanover; 2. Northern Valley; 3. Axtell; 4. Wheatland-Grinnell; 5. Logan-Palco; 6. Pawnee Heihgts; 7. Attica; 8. Elyria Christian; 9. Wavelry; 10. St. John's-Beloit.
