By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Seven Shawnee County basketball teams continue to be ranked in the latest Kansas Basketball Coaches Association state rankings released Tuesday, with Silver Lake's girls continuing to hold the No. 1 spot in Class 3A.
Topeka West, which has won 14 straight games, remained No. 2 in the 5A boys rankings while Highland Park is No. 4.
Cair Paravel is No. 8 in the 1A Division I boys rankings.
Topeka High and Washburn Rural are ranked No. 2 and No. 3 in the 6A girls rankings behind Olathe North.
Seaman remains No. 8 spot in the 5A girls 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. Shawnee Mission West; 8. Wichita Heights; 9. Olathe South; 10. Dodge City.
Class 5A
1. Salina Central; 2. St. Thomas Aquinas; 3. Bishop Carroll; 4. Lansing; 5. Emporia; 6. Goddard; 7. Andover Central; 8. Seaman; 9. Basehor-Linwood; 10. Hays.
Class 4A
1. Wellington; 2. Bishop Miege; 3. Eudora; 4. Wamego; 5. Andale; 6. Clearwater; 7. Rock Creek; 8. Fort Scott; 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. Nemaha Central.
Class 2A
1. Sterling; 2. Berean Academy; 3. Valley Heights; 4. St. Mary's Colgan; 5. Jackson Heights; 6. Smith Center; 7. Elkhart; 8. Uniontown; 9. Garden Plain; 10. Remington.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Hodgeman County; 2. Centralia; 3. Little River; 4. Burlingame; 5. Osborne; 6. Pretty Prairie; 7. St. Paul; 8. Norwich; 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. St. John's-Tipton; 8. Attica; 9. Elyria Christian; 10. Wheatland-Grinnell.
BOYS
Class 6A
1. Free State; 2. Blue Valley Northwest; 3. Wichita Heights; 4. Dodge City; 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. Highland Park; 5. Andover Central; 6. Basehor-Linwood; 7. Andover; 8. De Soto; 9. St. James Academy; 10. Maize South.
Class 4A
1. Eudora; 2. Bishop Miege; 3. Paola; 4. Buhler; 5. Circle; 6. Abilene; 7. Pratt; 8. Rose Hill; 9. McPherson; 10. Wamego.
Class 3A
1. Cheney; 2. Hesston; 3. Galena; 4. Royal Valley; 4. Wichita Collegiate; 6. Hugoton; 7. Southeast-Sline; 8. Osage City; 9. Holcomb; 10. Nemaha Central.
Class 2A
1. Hillsboro; 2. St. Marys; 3. Valley Falls; 4. Ellinwood; 5. Lyndon; 6. Sedan; 7. Sacred Heart; 8. Trego Community; 9. Moundridge; 10. Southeast Cherokee.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Olpe; 2. Macksville; 3. South Gray; 4. Osborne; 5. Norwich; 6. Hodgeman County; 7. Wichita Classical; 8. Cair Paravel Latin; 9. Clifton-Clyde; 10. Sylvan-Lucas.
Class 1A-Division II
1. Hanover; 2. Northern Valley; 3. Greeley County; 4. Elyria Christian; 5. Bucklin; 6. Lebo; 7. Dighton; 8. Logan-Palco; 9. Waverly; 10. Wheatland-Grinnell.