By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Seven Shawnee County basketball teams continue to be ranked in the final 2021-2022 Kansas Basketball Coaches Association state rankings released Tuesday, with Seaman's girls jumping two places in Class 3A after knocking off a pair of state-ranked teams.
Seaman, 13-5 through last week, upset 6A's No. 2-ranked team, Topeka High, and 5A's then-No. 4-ranked Lansing last week and moved from No. 8 to No. 6 in 5A.
Matt Tinsley's Seaman girls basketball team jumped two places to No. 6 in the final KBCA Class 5A rankings. [File photo/TSN]
Silver Lake's girls continued to be ranked No. 1 in 3A while Topeka High and Washburn Rural held the No. 2 and No. 3 spots in the 6A girls rankings behind Olathe North.
Topeka West, which has won 16 straight games, remained No. 2 in the 5A boys rankings while Highland Park slipped two spots to No. 6.
Cair Paravel moved up a spot to No. 7 in the 1A Division I boys rankings.
KANSAS BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION STATE RANKINGS
GIRLS
Class 6A
1. Olathe North; 2. Topeka High; 3. Washburn Rural; 4. Derby; 5. Shawnee Mission Northwest; 6. Blue Valley; 7. Wichita Heights; 8. Olathe South; 9. Dodge City; 10. Shawnee Mission West.
Class 5A
1. Salina Central; 2. St. Thomas Aquinas; 3. Bishop Carroll; 4. Emporia; 5. Lansing; 6. Seaman; 7. Andover Central; 8. Goddard; 9. Hays; 10. Basehor-Linwood.
Class 4A
1. Wellington; 2. Bishop Miege; 3. Eudora; 4. Wamego; 5. Andale; 6. Fort Scott; 7. Rock Creek; 8. Clearwater; 9. McPherson; 10. Labette County.
Class 3A
1. Silver Lake; 2. Hugoton; 3. Cheney; 4.Nickerson; 5. Eureka; 6. Goodland; 7. Southeast-Saline; 8. Phillipsburg; 9. TMP-Marian; 10. Hiawatha.
Class 2A
1. Sterling; 2. Berean Academy; 3. St. Mary's Colgan; 4. Valley Heights; 5. Jackson Heights; 6. Smith Center; 7. Elkhart; 8. Uniontown; 9. Bluestem; 10. Garden Plain.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Hodgeman County; 2. Centralia; 3. Little River; 4. Burlingame; 5. Osborne; 6. Pretty Prairie; 7. Norwich; 8. St. Paul; 9. Sylvan-Lucas; 10. South Central.
Class 1A-Division II
1. Central Plains; 2. Lebo; 3. Golden Plains; 4. Central Christian; 5. Hanover; 6. South Haven; 7. Attica; 8. St. John's-Tipton; 9. Linn; 10. Elyria Christian.
BOYS
Class 6A
1. Free State; 2. Wichita Heights; 3. Dodge City; 4. Blue Valley Northwest; 5. Lawrence; 6. Shawnee Mission Northwet; 7. Shawnee Mission South; 8. Blue Valley West; 9 Harmon; 10. Wichita Northwest.
Class 5A
1.Kapaun Mt. Carmel; 2. Topeka West; 3. Hays; 4. Andover Central; 5. Basehor-Linwood; 6. Highland Park; 7. Andover; 8. De Soto; 9. Maize; 10. St. James Academy.
Class 4A
1. Eudora; 2. Bishop Miege; 3. Paola; 4. Buhler; 5. Andale; 6. Pratt; 7. Concordia; 8. McPherson; 9. Wamego; 10. Rose Hill.
Class 3A
1. Cheney; 2. Hesston; 3. Royal Valley; 4. Galena; 5. Hugoton; 6. Southeast-Saline; 7. Nemaha Central; 7. Wichita Collegiate; 9. Lakin; 10. Holcomb.
Class 2A
1. Hillsboro; 2. St. Marys; 3. Valley Falls; 4. Ellinwood; 5. Lyndon; 6. Sedan; 7. Moundridge; 8. Southeast-Cherokee; 9. Erie; 10. Wabaunsee.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Olpe; 2. Norwich; 3. South Gray; 4. Osborne; 5. Macksville; 6. Ness City; 7. Cair Paravel Latin; 8. Madison-Hamilton; 9. Sylvan-Lucas; 10. Clifton-Clyde.
Class 1A-Division II
1. Hanover; 2. Northern Valley; 3. Greeley County; 4. Bucklin; 5. Elyria Christian; 6. Dighton; 7. Logan-Palco; 8. Lebo; 9. Attica; 10. Waverly.
