Area teams ranked in latest KBCA polls

Garden City, Kan. (westernkansasnews.com)–The Kansas Basketball Coaches Association revealed their latest rankings on Tuesday, and there is a good flavor of southwest Kansas schools ranked in their classification. 

Dodge City remains ranked in both the boys and girls in Class 6A, with the girls ranked eighth and the boys are fourth. Liberal girls are 10th in 6A. In Class 3A, Hugoton remains ranked No. 1 and Cimarron is 10th, while the Holcomb boys are in the rankings at No. 8. The Elkhart girls enter the rankings at No. 9 in Class 2A. Class 1A, Division 1 has the South Gray boys ranked No. 1 and the Hodgeman County girls sitting third and in Class 1A, Division 2, Ashland’s girls are ranked seventh, while the Greeley County boys are third and Bucklin enters the rankings at No. 10. 

Girls Rankings
Class 6A
1. Shawnee Mission West
2. Olathe North
3. Derby
4. Topeka High
5. Blue Valley
6. Shawnee Mission Northwest
7. Washburn Rural
8. Dodge City
9. Wichita Heights
10. Liberal

Class 5A
1. St. Thomas Aquinas
2. Salina Central
3. Andover Central
4. Lansing
5. Goddard
6. Emporia
7. Spring Hill
8. Bishop Carroll
9. Basehor-Linwood
10. Maize

Class 4A
1. Bishop Miege
2. Wamego
3. Wellington
4. Eudora
5. Andale
6. Clearwater
7. Louisburg
8. Rock Creek
9. Labette County
10. Ottawa

Class 3A
1. Hugoton
2. Nickerson
3. Goodland
4. Cheney
5. Silver Lake
6. Eureka
7. Southeast of Saline
8. Phillpsburg
9. Smoky Valley
10. Cimarron

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. Elkhart
10. Bluestem

Class 1A, Division 1
1. Burlingame
2. Pretty Prairie
3. Hodgeman County
4. South Central
5. Little River
6. Centralia
7. Osborne
8. St. Paul
9. Doniphan West
10. Norwich

Class 1A, Division 2
1. Central Plains
2. Lebo
3. Hanover
4. Golden Plains
5. Central Christian
6. Attica
7. Ashland
8. Linn
9. Rural Vista
10. Wheatland-Grinnell

Boys Rankings
Class 6A
1. Lawrence-Free State
2. Blue Valley West
3. Olathe South
4. Dodge City
5. Shawnee Mission South
6. Wichita Heights
7. Blue Valley Northwest
8. Junction City
9. Blue Valley North
10. Wichita Northwest

Class 5A
1. Andover
2. Highland Park
3. Andover Central
4. Kapaun Mt. Carmel
5. Topeka West
6. Maize
7. Hays
8. St. James Academy
9. Valley Center
10. Pittsburg

Class 4A
1. Eudora
2. Buhler
3. Bishop Miege
4. Tonganoxie
5. Paola
6. Abilene
7. McPherson
8. Andale
9. Wamego
10. Concordia

Class 3A
1. Hesston
2. Royal Valley
3. Cheney
4. Galena
5. Wichita Collegiate
6. Nemaha Central
7. Osage City
8. Holcomb
9. Frontenac
10. Southeast of Saline

Class 2A
1. Hillsboro
2. St. Mary’s
3. Valley Falls
4. Ellinwood
5. Wabaunsee
6. Lyndon
7. Erie
8. Trego Community
9. Jefferson County North
10. Berean Academy

Class 1A, Division 1
1. South Gray
2. Olpe
3. Macksville
4. Norwich
5. Osborne
6. Frankfort
7. Clifton-Clyde
8. Troy
9. Burlingame
10. Solomon

Class 1A, Division 2
1. Hanover
2. Northern Valley
3. Greeley County
4. Elyria Christian
5. Wheatland-Grinnell
6. Axtell
7. St. John’s Beloit-Tipton
8. Attica
9. Waverly
10. Bucklin