Varsity Basketball

Kansas coaches rank the state’s top high school teams. We rank the top 25 in the area

Wichita Heights’ Cayanna Stanley
Wichita Heights’ Cayanna Stanley Hayden Barber The Wichita Eagle

Teams are starting to gauge their sub-state seeding.

With a few regular season games left before the postseason, the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association (KBCA) has dropped its latest state rankings, and we have released our latest Wichita area rankings:

Last week’s rankings

Class 6A Boys

  1. Haysville Campus (-, no change from last week)
  2. Blue Valley Northwest (-)
  3. Blue Valley North (-)

  4. Kansas City JC Harmon (-)

  5. Lawrence (-)

  6. Lawrence Free State (+3)

  7. Derby (+1)

  8. Washburn Rural (-2)

  9. Manhattan (+1)

  10. Olathe South (NR)

Dropped out: Olathe West (7 last week)

Class 6A Girls

  1. Topeka (-)
  2. Liberal (-)
  3. Wichita Heights (-)

  4. Olathe West (-)

  5. Shawnee Mission Northwest (-)

  6. Derby (+1)

  7. Washburn Rural (-1)
  8. Blue Valley North (-)

  9. Shawnee Mission West (+1)

  10. Olathe East (-1)

Class 5A Boys

  1. Bishop Carroll (-)
  2. Andover (-)

  3. Basehor-Linwood (-)

  4. Goddard Eisenhower (-)

  5. Kapaun Mt. Carmel (+2)

  6. Topeka Highland Park (-1)

  7. Salina South (-)

  8. Great Bend (+1)

  9. De Soto (NR)

  10. Pittsburg (-)

Dropped out: Topeka West (8)

Class 5A Girls

  1. McPherson (-)

  2. St. Thomas Aquinas (-)

  3. Andover Central (-)

  4. Salina Central (-)

  5. Topeka Seaman (-)

  6. Maize South (+4)

  7. Bishop Carroll (-1)

  8. Kansas City Schlagle (+1)

  9. Maize (NR)

  10. De Soto (-3)

Dropped Out: Kansas City Sumner Academy (8)

Class 4A Boys

  1. Kansas City Piper (-)
  2. Parsons (-)
  3. Bishop Miege (-)

  4. Andale (+1)

  5. Augusta (-1)

  6. Ottawa (-)

  7. Abilene (-)

  8. Buhler (-)

  9. Independence (+1 )

  10. Iola (NR)

Dropped out: Clearwater (9)

Class 4A Girls

  1. Bishop Miege (-)
  2. Kansas City Piper (-)
  3. Towanda Circle (-)

  4. Eudora (-)

  5. Nickerson (-)

  6. Baldwin (-)

  7. Wamego (-)
  8. Andale (-)

  9. Chapman (-)

  10. Clay Center (NR)

Dropped Out: Chanute (10)

Class 3A Boys

  1. Hesston (-)

  2. Rock Creek (+1)

  3. Wichita Collegiate (+1)

  4. Haven (-2)

  5. Royal Valley (-)

  6. Cheney (-)

  7. Larned (+3)

  8. Lyons (-)

  9. Beloit (-)

  10. Hoisington (-), Hays TMP (-3)

Dropped Out: Lakin (10), Marysville (10), Hugoton (10), Riley County (10)

Class 3A Girls

  1. Nemaha Central (-)

  2. Riley County (-)

  3. Sabetha (+1)

  4. Haven (-1)

  5. Scott City (-)

  6. Halstead (+1)

  7. Cheney (+1)

  8. Colby (-2)
  9. Hugoton (NR)
  10. Wellsville (NR)

Dropped Out: Eurkea (9), Frontenac (10)

Class 2A Boys

  1. Lawrence Seabury Academy (-)
  2. Salina Sacred Heart (-)

  3. Hoxie (-)

  4. Pratt Skyline (-)

  5. Ellis (+1)

  6. Belle Plaine (+1)

  7. Sterling (+1)

  8. Lyndon (+1)

  9. Dexter/Cedar Vale (+1)
  10. Garden Plain (-5)

Class 2A Girls

  1. Spearville (-)

  2. Sterling (-)

  3. Trego Community (+1)

  4. West Elk (-1)

  5. Jefferson County North (-)

  6. Wabaunsee (+1)

  7. Wichita Independent (+3)

  8. Valley Heights (-)
  9. Garden Plain (-3)
  10. Hoxie (-1), Jackson Heights (NR), Chase County (NR)

Class 1A Boys

  1. Osborne (-)

  2. Elbing Berean Academy (-)
  3. Madison Hamilton (-)

  4. St. John Hudson (-)

  5. Montezuma South Gray (+2)

  6. Meade (-1)

  7. Lebo (-1)

  8. Attica (+2)

  9. Olpe (NR)

  10. Coldwater South Central (-2)

Dropped out: Udall (9)

Class 1A Girls

  1. Central Plains (-)
  2. Olpe (-)

  3. Rural Vista (-)

  4. Cunningham (-)

  5. Hanover (-)

  6. Thunder Ridge (-)

  7. Otis Bison (-)

  8. Golden Plains (+2)

  9. Montezuma South Gray (+1)

  10. Hutchinson Central Christian (-1)

Top 20 boys teams in the Wichita area

According to Varsity Kansas

Last week’s rankings

  1. Bishop Carroll, 18-0 (-)
  2. Campus, 16-0 (-)
  3. Andover, 16-0 (-)
  4. Derby, 11-3 (-)
  5. Eisenhower, 13-3 (-)
  6. Kapaun Mt. Carmel, 14-4 (-)
  7. Hesston, 16-1 (-)

  8. Berean Academy, 18-0 (+1)

  9. Haven, 15-2 (-1)

  10. Cheney, 15-2 (+1)

  11. Collegiate, 13-3 (+1)

  12. Wichita Southeast, 11-6 (+1)

  13. Andover Central, 9-7 (+1)

  14. Andale, 12-4 (+3)

  15. Augusta, 12-4 (-5)

  16. Rose Hill, 9-7 (-1)

  17. Wichita Heights, 7-10 (NR)

  18. Maize, 8-8 (NR)

  19. Belle Plaine, 14-3 (-)

  20. Clearwater, 11-5 (-2)

Dropped Out: Wichita East (16), Garden Plain (20)

Top 20 girls teams in the Wichita area

According to Varsity Kansas

  1. Wichita Heights, 17-0 (-)
  2. McPherson, 16-1 (-)
  3. Derby, 12-2 (-)
  4. Andover Central, 15-1 (-)
  5. Maize South, 14-2 (-)
  6. Bishop Carroll, 15-3 (-)
  7. Circle, 14-2 (-)

  8. Nickerson, 15-2 (+1)

  9. Haven, 14-3 (-1)
  10. Cheney, 14-3 (-)

  11. Kapaun Mt. Carmel, 10-8 (-)
  12. Halstead, 14-3 (-)
  13. Maize, 11-5 (-)

  14. Goddard, 9-7 (+1)

  15. Eisenhower, 8-8 (-1)
  16. Independent, 12-5 (-)

  17. Hesston, 12-5 (+1)

  18. Garden Plain, 13-4 (-1)
  19. Trinity Academy, 11-6 (-)

  20. Norwich, 16-2 (-)
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