The metro area is once again well-represented in this week’s Missouri Basketball Coaches Top 10 poll as Cardinal Ritter and Vashon are on top of their classes on the boys’ side while Incarnate Word and Vashon lead the way in their classes in the girls’ rankings. Both John Burroughs basketball teams are slotted in the second slots in their classes with the area having four of the top six teams in the boys’ Class 5 list.

Boys Top 10 Rankings

Class 6:

  1. Staley
  2. Nixa
  3. Oak Park
  4. Kirkwood
  5. Lee’s Summit West
  6. Republic
  7. CBC
  8. Park Hill South
  9. Troy Buchanan
  10. Rock Bridge

Receiving Votes: Kickapoo, Chaminade, North Kansas City, Hickman

 

Class 5:

  1. Cardinal Ritter
  2. Central (Cape Girardeau)
  3. Westminster Christian Academy
  4. St. Francis Borgia
  5. De Smet
  6. Sikeston
  7. Ladue
  8. Hogan Prep Academy
  9. Jefferson City
  10. Pembroke Hill

Receiving Votes: Hillsboro, Festus, Bolivar, Rolla

 

Class 4:

  1. Vashon
  2. John Burroughs
  3. MICDS
  4. Father Tolton
  5. Central (Park Hills)
  6. St. Charles
  7. Fulton
  8. Logan-Rogersville
  9. Forsyth
  10. Hollister

Receiving Votes: Macon, Fatima, Lafayette (St. Joseph), Miller Career Academy, Potosi

 

Class 3:

  1. Charleston
  2. Mansfield
  3. Thayer
  4. Central (New Madrid County)
  5. Lafayette County
  6. Steelville
  7. Sparta
  8. Greenwood
  9. Caruthersville
  10. T-10. El Dorado Springs, T-10. Hermann

Receiving Votes: Seymour, Woodland

 

Class 2:

  1. Plattsburg
  2. Principia
  3. Lincoln
  4. Hartville
  5. Greenville
  6. New Franklin
  7. Ash Grove
  8. Westran
  9. Salisbury
  10. T-10. Cooter, T-10. Gallatin

Receiving Votes: Eugene, Marionville, Advance

Class 1:

  1. South Iron
  2. Platte Valley
  3. Atlanta
  4. Bunker
  5. Green City
  6. Leeton
  7. Higbee
  8. Northwest (Hughesville)
  9. Dadeville
  10. Grundy County/ Newtown Harris

Receiving Votes: Chadwick, Humansville, Drexel, Glasgow, Couch, Thomas Jefferson Independent

 

Girls Top 10 Rankings:

Class 6:

  1. Incarnate Word
  2. Truman
  3. Republic
  4. Raytown
  5. Park Hill South
  6. Grain Valley
  7. Nixa
  8. Hickman
  9. Rock Bridge
  10. Battle

Receiving Votes: Raytown South, Kickapoo, Jackson, Liberty North

 

Class 5:

  1. Carl Junction
  2. John Burroughs
  3. Helias Catholic
  4. Notre Dame (Cape Girardeau)
  5. Rolla
  6. West Plains
  7. Lutheran St. Charles
  8. Farmington
  9. Jefferson City
  10. T-10. Marshfield, T-10. Union

Receiving Votes: Lutheran South

 

Class 4:

  1. Vashon
  2. St. James
  3. Benton
  4. Doniphan
  5. California
  6. Ava
  7. Central (Park Hills)
  8. T-8. Owensville
  9. T-8. Cardinal Ritter
  10. Fatima

Receiving Votes: Chillicothe, Centralia, Southern Boone County, Hallsville, Perryville

 

Class 3:

  1. El Dorado Springs
  2. South Shelby
  3. Strafford
  4. Skyline
  5. Fair Grove
  6. Licking
  7. West County
  8. T-8. East Buchanan
  9. T-8. St. Pius X (Festus)
  10. T-10. Mansfield, T-10. Sparta

Receiving Votes: Palmyra, Montgomery County, Steelville

 

Class 2:

  1. Bishop LeBlond
  2. Tipton
  3. Northeast (Cairo)
  4. Miller
  5. St. Vincent
  6. Schuyler County
  7. North Platte
  8. Neelyville
  9. Blue Eye
  10. T-10. Canton, T-10. East Carter County

Receiving Votes: Polo

 

Class 1:

  1. Meadville
  2. South Iron
  3. Platte Valley
  4. North Shelby
  5. Delta
  6. Leeton
  7. Santa Fe
  8. Golden City
  9. Walnut Grove
  10. T-10. Mercer, T-10. Chadwick

Receiving Votes: St. Elizabeth, Hume, Chadwick

Jim Powers

Jim Powers

Jim Powers has been covering prep sports in the St. Louis area for 15+ years and a part of the Missouri State High School Activities Association Championship Broadcasts for the past 11 years. Powers is also a part of the Fox 2 Verlo Mattress Prep Zone Friday nights at 10:10 during the football and basketball seasons. If you have a prep sports story, please contact Jim at japowers2421@yahoo.com. Follow Jim at @hssportscaravan