Winning the Colby Orange and Black Classic has moved the Hays High boys basketball team up to No. 4 in the latest Class 5A rankings from the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association released on Tuesday.
The TMP-Marian girls are ranked 10th in Class 3A. The Monarchs are coming off the Mid-Continent League Tournament championship. The team they beat in the semifinals, Smith Center, sits at No. 7 in Class 2A.
The Trego boys are ranked eighth in Class 2A
The Hays High girls' opponent this Friday, Salina Central, is ranked No. 1 in Class 5A.
The Liberal and Dodge City girls' team remain ranked in 6A. The Redskins are eighth and the Red Demons ninth. The Dodge City boys are ranked fourth.
Osborne and Wheatland/Grinnell are the only area schools with both their boys and girls teams ranked. The Bulldog boys are third and girls sixth in 1A Division I. The Thunderhawk boys are fifth and girls tenth in 1A Division II.
The Northern Valley boys are ranked second in 1A Division II
Complete rankings below...
GIRLS RANKINGS
6A Girls
1. Shawnee Mission West
2. Olathe North
3. Derby
4. Topeka High
5. Blue Valley
6. Washburn Rural
7. Shawnee Mission Northwest
8. Liberal
9. Dodge City
10. Blue Valley Northwest
5A Girls
1. Salina Central
2. St. Thomas Aquinas
3. Lansing
4. Bishop Carroll
5. Andover Central
6. Goddard
7. Emporia
8. Spring Hill
9. Tecumseh - Shawnee Heights
10. Topeka Seaman
4A Girls
1. Wellington
2. Bishop Miege
3. Eudora
4. Wamego
5. Andale
6. Labette County
7. Rock Creek
8. McPherson
9. Clearwater
10. Clay Center
3A Girls
1. Nickerson
2. Silver Lake
3. Hugoton
4. Eureka
5. Cheney
6. Hiawatha
7. Goodland
8. Southeast of Saline
9. Santa Fe Trail
10. Thomas More Prep
2A Girls
1. Sterling
2. Valley Heights
3. St. Mary's Colgan
4. Elibing - Berean Academy
5. Jackson Heights
6. Elkhart
7. Smith Center
8. Garden Plain
9. Ell-Saline
10. Blue Stem
1A-Division 1 Girls
1. Hodgeman County
2. Centralia
3. St. Paul
4. Little River
5. Norwich
6. Osborne
7. Pretty Prairie
8 Highland Doniphan West
9. Coldwater South Central
10. Burlingame
1A-Division 2 Girls
1. Central Plains
2. Lebo
3. Hanover
4. Golden Plains
5. Hutchinson Central Christian
6. Ashland
7. St. John's-Tipton
8. South Haven
9. Attica
10. Wheatland-Grinnell
BOYS RANKINGS
6A Boys
1. Lawrence Free State
2. Blue Valley Northwest
3. Wichita Heights
4. Dodge City
5. Blue Valley West
6. Shawnee Mission South
7. Shawnee Mission Northwest
8. Wichita Northwest
9. Lawrence
10. Shawnee Mission Northwest
5A Boys
1. Kapaun Mt. Carmel
2. Topeka West
3. Highland Park
4. Hays
5. Andover Central
6. Andover
7. Maize
8. St. James Academy
9. Valley Center
10. Blue Valley Southwest
4A Boys
1. Bishop Miege
2. Eudora
3. Buhler
4. McPherson
5. Paola
6. Andale
7. Abilene
8. Pratt
9. Circle
10. Tonganoxie
3A Boys
1. Royal Valley
2. Cheney
3. Hesston
4. Frontenac
5. Wichita Collegiate
6. Nemaha Central
7. Galena
8. Osage City
9. Holcomb
10. Hugoton
2A Boys
1. Hillsboro
2. St. Mary's
3. Valley Falls
4. Wabaunsee
5. Lyndon
6. Ellinwood
7. Inman
8. Trego Community
9. Moundridge
10. Erie
1A-Division 1 Boys
1. Olpe
2. South Gray
3. Osborne
4. Norwich
5. Macksville
6. Solomon
7. Centralia
8. Clifton-Clyde
9. Hodgeman County
10. Burlingame
1A-Division 2 Boys
1. Hanover
2. Northern Valley
3. Tribune - Greeley County
4. Elyria Christian
5. Wheatland-Grinnell
6. Bucklin
7. Lebo
8. Waverly
9. Axtell
10. Dighton