Jan 27, 2026

🏀 Hays girls remain third, boys drop in KBCA rankings

Posted Jan 27, 2026 6:15 PM
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Despite going 3-0 and winning the Colby Orange and Black Classic, the Hays High boys (11-3) basketball team dropped two spots to No. 10 in the latest Kansas Basketball Coaches Association 5A rankings released Tuesday.

The Hays girls (13-1) remained third.

The Victoria boys (8-5) remained at No. 6 in 1A Division 2.

The Mid-Continent League has two teams ranked. Hoxie (13-0) jumped six spots to No. 2 in Class 2A and Oakley (10-2) returned to the rankings this week at No. 8.

The Quinter girls (9-2) moved up three spots to No. 7 in 1A Division 1. Wheatland-Grinnell (11-3) is ninth in 1A Division 2.

6A Girls
1. Shawnee Mission South
2. Wichita Heights
3. Derby
4. Olathe South
5. Wichita East 
6. Blue Valley North
7. Olathe North
8. Manhattan 
9. Liberal
10. Washburn Rural

5A Girls
1. St. Thomas Aquinas
2. Andover
3. Hays
4. Maize South
5. Shawnee Heights
6. St. James Academy
7. KC Piper
8. Bishop Carroll
9. Kapaun Mt. Carmel
10. Salina South  

4A Girls
1. Wellington
2. Independence
3. Bishop Miege
4. Wamego
5. Ottawa
6. Eudora
7. Rock Creek
8. Fort Scott
9. Topeka Hayden
10. Andale  

3A Girls 
1. Silver Lake 
2. Halstead 
3. Osage City
4. Olathe South
4. Hiawatha
5. Burlington 
6. Holcomb 
7. Frontenac
8. Southeast of Saline 
9. Riley County
10. Beloit

2A Girls 
1. Moundridge 
2. Hoxie 
3. St. Mary's Colgan 
4. Eureka 
5. Ellinwood 
6. Remington 
7. Inman 
8. Oakley 
9. Hillsboro 
10. Sacred Heart

1A Div. 1 Girls 
1. Little River 
2. Wabaunsee 
3. Centralia 
4. Olpe 
5. South Gray 
6. Rock Hills
7. Quinter 
8. Hodgeman County 
9. Spearville 
10. Pretty Prairie

1A Div. 2 Girls
1. Bucklin
2. Dighton
3. Hanover
4. Hutchinson - Central Christian
5. Linn
6. Melvern - Marais des Cygnes Valley
7. Ashland
8. Cheylin
9. Wheatland/Grinnell
10. Axtell

6A Boys
1. Shawnee Mission South
2. Olathe North
3. Wichita Heights
4. Blue Valley Northwest
5. Mill Valley
6. Blue Valley
7. Olathe East
8. Maize
9. Manhatan
10. Blue Valley West

5A Boys
1. Kapaun Mt. Carmel
2. Topeka West
3. Bonner Springs
4. Maize South
5. Topeka Seaman
6. Emporia
7. St. James Academy
8. Bishop Carroll
9. KC Piper
10. Hays

4A Boys
1. Rock Creek
2. Atchison
3. Bishop Miege
4. Pratt
5. Baldwin
6. Andale
7. Concordia
8. Hugoton
9. Fort Scott
10. Chanute

3A Boys
1. Wichita Collegiate
2. Hesston
3. Beloit
4. Holcomb
5. Anthony/Harper-Chaparral
6. Hiawatha
7. Silver Lake
8. Burlington
9. Colby
10. Osawatomie

2A Boys
1. Sterling
2. Moundridge
3. Sacred Heart
4. Berean Academy
5. Ell-Saline
6. Classical School of Wichita
7. Topeka - Cair Paravel Latin School
8. Pittsburg - St. Mary's Colgan
9. St. Marys
10. Cherokee - Southeast

1A Div. 1 Boys
1. Olpe
2. South Central
3. Little River
4. Central Plains
5. Burden - Central
6. South Gray
7. Lawrence - Bishop Seabury Academy
8. Wabaunsee
9. St. John's/Tipton Catholic
10. Greeley County

1A Div. 2 Boys
1. Hanover
2. Axtell
3. Hartford
4. Thunder Ridge
5. Wallace County
6. Victoria
7. Deerfield
8. Ingalls
9. Linn
10. Tescott