By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Six Shawnee County basketball teams earned spots in the latest Kansas Basketball Coaches Association state rankings, with the undefeated Highland Park's boys moving up three spots to No. 3 in Class 5A while Topeka West moved into the 5A rankings at No. 7.
Junior Brooklyn DeLeye and the Washburn Rural girls remain ranked No. 2 in the KBCA Class 6A state rankings. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Washburn Rural, Topeka High, Hayden and Silver Lake remain ranked on the girls side, with Rural No. 2 and Topeka High No. 6 in 6A, while Silver Lake moved from eighth to fifth in 3A and Hayden remained No. 10 in 4A.
Top-ranked girls teams include Shawnee Mission Northwest in 6A, St. Thomas Aquinas in 5A, Bishop Miege in 4A, Hugoton in 3A, Sterling in 2A, Burlingame in 1A-Division I and Central Plains in 1A-Division II.
Top-ranked boys teams include Free State in 6A, Maize in 5A, Miege in 4A, Hesston in 3A, Hillsboro in 2A, Olpe in 1A-Division I and Hanover in 1A-Division II.
KANSAS BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION STATE RANKINGS
GIRLS
Class 6A
1. Shawnee Mission Northwest; 2. Washburn Rural; 3. Shawnee Mission West; 4. Olathe North; 5. Derby; 6. Topeka High; 7. Blue Valley; 8. Dodge City; 9. Wichita Heights; 10. Liberal.
Class 5A
1. St. Thomas Aquinas; 2. Salina Central; 3. Andover Central; 4. Lansing; 5. Bishop Carroll; 6. Goddard; 7. Emporia; 8. St. James Academy; 9. Andover; 10. Maize South.
Class 4A
1. Bishop Miege; 2. Wamego; 3. Wellington; 4. Eudora; 5. Andale; 6. Louisburg; 7. Rock Creek; 8. Clearwater; 9. Labette County; 10. Hayden.
Class 3A
1. Hugoton; 2. Nickerson; 3. Goodland; 4. Phillipsburg; 5. Silver Lake; 6. Cheney; 7. Cimarron; 8. Nemaha Central; 9. Smoky Valley; 10. Southeast-Saline.
Class 2A
1. Sterling; 2. St. Mary's Colgan; 3. Valley Heights; 4. Berean Academy; 5. Smith Center; 6. Jackson Heights; 7. Ell-Saline; 8. Garden Plain; 9. Hillsboro; 10. Elkhart.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Burlingame; 2. Pretty Prairie; 3. South Central 4. Little River; 5. Centralia; 6. Hodgeman County; 7. Osborne; 8. St. Paul; 9. Doniphan West; 10. Frankfort.
Class 1A-Division II
1. Central Plains; 2. Lebo; 3. Hanover; 4. Golden Plains; 5. Central Christian; 6. Attica; 7. Rural Vista; 8. Linn; 9. Wheatland-Grinnell; 10. Ashland.
BOYS
Class 6A
1. Free State; 2. Blue Valley West; 3. Lawrence; 4. Olathe South; 5. Dodge City; 6. Shawnee Mission South; 7. Wichita Heights; 8. Blue Valley North; 9. Blue Valley Northwest; 10. Junction City.
Class 5A
1. Maize; 2. Andover; 3. Highland Park; 4. Andover Central; 5. Blue Valley Southwest; 6. Kapaun Mt. Carmel; 7. Topeka West; 8. Hays; 9. Maize South; 10. St. James Academy.
Class 4A
1. Bishop Miege; 2. Eudora; 3. Buhler; 4. Concordia; 5. Tonganoxie; 6. Paola; 7. Abilene; 8. McPherson; 9. Chanute; 10. Augusta.
Class 3A
1. Hesston; 2. Cheney; 3. Galena; 4. Wichita Collegiate; 5. Royal Valley; 6. Nemaha Central; 7. Holcomb; 8. TMP-Marian; 9. Southeast-Saline; 10. Osage City.
Class 2A
1.. Hillsboro; 2. Wabaunsee; 3. St. Marys; 4. Lyndon; 5. Valley Falls; 6. Ellinwood; 7. Jefferson County North; 8. Erie; 9. Trego Community; 10. Berean Acaemy.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Olpe; 2. South Gray; 3. Solomon; 4. Macksville; 5. Norwich; 6. Clifton-Clyde; 7. Frankfort; 8. Wichita Classical; 9. Burlingame; 10. Osborne.
Class 1A-Division II
1. Hanover; 2. Northern Valley; 3. Logan-Palco; 4. Axtell; 5. Wheatland-Grinnell; 6. Greeley County; 7. Elyria Christian; 8. Pawnee Heights; 9. Attica; 10. St. John's/Tipton.
