High school basketball: Dave Cantrall’s top 25 girls’ teams in Kentucky
Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State
| GIRLS’ TOP 25 | Rating |
| 1. Cooper (11-2) | 89.6 |
| 2. Sacred Heart (12-2) | 89.1 |
| 3. Manual (14-1) | 85.5 |
| 4. McCracken County (16-2) | 84.7 |
| 5. Bowling Green (10-5) | 84.4 |
| 6. Mercy (9-5) | 83.9 |
| 7. George Rogers Clark (9-3) | 83.8 |
| 8. Ryle (14-3) | 82.2 |
| 9. Henderson County (10-3) | 82.1 |
| 10. Pikeville (11-4) | 82.0 |
| 11. Central (8-7) | 81.1 |
| 12. Bethlehem (10-5) | 80.9 |
| 13. Franklin County (13-3) | 80.6 |
| 14. Bullitt East (12-4) | 80.4 |
| 15. Covington Holy Cross (13-4) | 80.3 |
| 16. North Laurel (9-3) | 80.1 |
| 17. Russell (9-7) | 79.3 |
| 18. South Laurel (9-7) | 78.7 |
| 19. Male (7-6) | 78.4 |
| 20. Dixie Heights (9-5) | 78.3 |
| 21. Meade County (9-7) | 78.1 |
| 22. Madison Central (12-2) | 77.9 |
| 23. Frederick Douglass (7-6) | 77.8 |
| 24. Knox Central (10-3) | 77.4 |
| 25. Notre Dame (9-4) | 77.2 |
George Rogers Clark’s Brianna Byars (23) looks to shoot the ball during a game against Notre Dame at the White, Greer & Maggard Holiday Classic girls’ basketball tournament at Lexington Catholic on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. Ryan C. Hermens rhermens@herald-leader.com
Ratings by region
| 1ST REGION | |
| 1. McCracken County | 84.7 |
| 2. Graves County | 73.3 |
| 3. Marshall County | 61.4 |
| 4. Mayfield | 52.9 |
| 5. Paducah Tilghman | 52.8 |
| 6. Calloway County | 50.6 |
| 7. Christian Fellowship | 48.8 |
| 8. Carlisle County | 43.0 |
| 9. Murray | 40.5 |
| 10. Fulton County | 35.7 |
| 11. Hickman County | 35.5 |
| 12. Ballard Memorial | 34.9 |
| 13. St. Mary | 23.7 |
| 14. Fulton City | 22.3 |
| 15. Community Christian | 2.4 |
| 2ND REGION | |
| 1. Henderson County | 82.1 |
| 2. Madisonville | 68.4 |
| 3. Hopkins Central | 64.2 |
| 4. Union County | 62.8 |
| 5. Crittenden County | 59.8 |
| 6. Webster County | 51.3 |
| 7. Christian County | 51.0 |
| 8. Lyon County | 49.8 |
| 9. Hopkinsville | 47.1 |
| 10. Livingston Central | 41.4 |
| 11. Trigg County | 40.0 |
| 12. Caldwell County | 35.9 |
| 13. University Heights | 24.3 |
| 14. Dawson Springs | 17.9 |
| 15. Fort Campbell | 2.6 |
| 16. Heritage Christian | 2.3 |
| 3RD REGION | |
| 1. Meade County | 78.1 |
| 2. Owensboro Catholic | 75.0 |
| 3. Breckinridge County | 68.4 |
| 3. Owensboro | 68.4 |
| 5. Muhlenberg County | 58.2 |
| 6. Daviess County | 57.3 |
| 7. Hancock County | 56.7 |
| 8. Edmonson County | 53.7 |
| 9. Apollo | 53.3 |
| 10. Butler County | 52.7 |
| 11. Ohio County | 44.2 |
| 12. Grayson County | 43.0 |
| 13. McLean County | 37.7 |
| 14. Whitesville Trinity | 31.1 |
| 15. Cloverport | 0.1 |
| 4TH REGION | |
| 1. Bowling Green | 84.4 |
| 2. Franklin-Simpson | 70.2 |
| 3. Barren County | 69.1 |
| 4. Greenwood | 63.1 |
| 5. South Warren | 60.7 |
| 6. Logan County | 58.0 |
| 7. Cumberland County | 56.6 |
| 8. Metcalfe County | 55.8 |
| 9. Monroe County | 54.8 |
| 10. Allen County | 53.3 |
| 11. Glasgow | 52.6 |
| 11. Todd Central | 52.6 |
| 13. Clinton County | 50.4 |
| 13. Russell County | 50.4 |
| 15. Warren East | 49.5 |
| 16. Russellville | 49.2 |
| 17. Warren Central | 38.3 |
| 5TH REGION | |
| 1. Bethlehem | 80.9 |
| 2. Taylor County | 73.3 |
| 3. North Hardin | 68.7 |
| 4. Nelson County | 68.6 |
| 5. Elizabethtown | 67.9 |
| 6. Bardstown | 61.9 |
| 7. John Hardin | 61.7 |
| 8. Hart County | 59.9 |
| 9. Central Hardin | 57.6 |
| 10. Green County | 53.8 |
| 11. Thomas Nelson | 44.6 |
| 12. Adair County | 41.0 |
| 13. LaRue County | 38.2 |
| 14. Campbellsville | 35.3 |
| 15. Marion County | 35.0 |
| 16. Washington County | 28.4 |
| 17. Caverna | 22.2 |
| 18. Fort Knox | 17.7 |
| 19. North Hardin Classical | 7.9 |
| 6TH REGION | |
| 1. Mercy | 83.9 |
| 2. Bullitt East | 80.4 |
| 3. Whitefield Academy | 74.4 |
| 4. Butler | 65.5 |
| 5. North Bullitt | 63.2 |
| 6. Bullitt Central | 62.5 |
| 7. Pleasure Ridge Park | 58.5 |
| 8. Louisville Holy Cross | 39.8 |
| 9. Valley | 30.8 |
| 10. Fern Creek | 29.6 |
| 11. Moore | 28.0 |
| 12. Western | 21.7 |
| 13. Beth Haven | 19.8 |
| 14. Jeffersontown | 4.2 |
| 15. Southern | 2.6 |
| 16. Fairdale | 2.5 |
| 17. Doss | 0.7 |
| 18. Iroquois | 0.1 |
| 7TH REGION | |
| 1. Sacred Heart | 89.1 |
| 2. Manual | 85.5 |
| 3. Central | 81.1 |
| 4. Male | 78.4 |
| 5. Christian Academy-Louisville | 77.1 |
| 6. Assumption | 74.5 |
| 7. Portland Christian | 51.8 |
| 8. Ballard | 44.2 |
| 9. Shawnee | 36.8 |
| 10. Eastern | 35.4 |
| 11. Presentation | 34.4 |
| 12. Collegiate | 24.2 |
| 13. Brown | 21.0 |
| 14. Atherton | 20.2 |
| 15. Kentucky Country Day | 15.5 |
| 16. Seneca | 13.7 |
| 17. Highlands Latin | 11.2 |
| 18. Waggener | 0.1 |
| 8TH REGION | |
| 1. Anderson County | 75.8 |
| 2. Spencer County | 71.4 |
| 3. Simon Kenton | 70.1 |
| 4. Walton-Verona | 64.7 |
| 5. Grant County | 63.9 |
| 6. South Oldham | 60.7 |
| 7. Owen County | 60.0 |
| 8. North Oldham | 57.2 |
| 9. Oldham County | 50.7 |
| 10. Shelby County | 45.9 |
| 11. Carroll County | 44.5 |
| 12. Collins | 37.8 |
| 13. Gallatin County | 37.1 |
| 14. Henry County | 36.6 |
| 15. Trimble County | 34.8 |
| 15. Woodford County | 34.8 |
| 17. Williamstown | 20.1 |
| 18. Eminence | 15.0 |
| 9TH REGION | |
| 1. Cooper | 89.6 |
| 2. Ryle | 82.2 |
| 3. Covington Holy Cross | 80.3 |
| 4. Dixie Heights | 78.3 |
| 5. Notre Dame | 77.2 |
| 6. Conner | 71.6 |
| 7. Highlands | 68.5 |
| 8. Newport Central Catholic | 60.6 |
| 9. St. Henry | 55.9 |
| 10. Lloyd | 45.2 |
| 11. Ludlow | 44.8 |
| 12. Beechwood | 44.6 |
| 13. Boone County | 41.3 |
| 14. Bellevue | 38.4 |
| 15. Newport | 38.1 |
| 16. Dayton | 24.1 |
| 17. Holmes | 20.7 |
| 18. Villa Madonna | 12.6 |
| 10TH REGION | |
| 1. George Rogers Clark | 83.8 |
| 2. Montgomery County | 74.6 |
| 3. Paris | 69.8 |
| 4. Scott | 65.6 |
| 5. Pendleton County | 64.4 |
| 6. Bishop Brossart | 62.3 |
| 7. Campbell County | 57.2 |
| 8. Bracken County | 56.4 |
| 9. Mason County | 54.2 |
| 10. Nicholas County | 52.5 |
| 11. Bourbon County | 48.1 |
| 12. St. Patrick | 43.7 |
| 13. Augusta | 37.7 |
| 13. Harrison County | 37.7 |
| 15. Robertson County | 30.3 |
| 11TH REGION | |
| 1. Franklin County | 80.6 |
| 2. Madison Central | 77.9 |
| 3. Frederick Douglass | 77.8 |
| 4. Lafayette | 70.0 |
| 5. Lexington Catholic | 66.7 |
| 6. Great Crossing | 66.3 |
| 7. Madison Southern | 65.8 |
| 8. Henry Clay | 63.4 |
| 9. Tates Creek | 60.0 |
| 10. Bryan Station | 56.5 |
| 11. Berea | 52.5 |
| 12. Scott County | 49.0 |
| 13. Sayre | 44.0 |
| 14. Frankfort | 38.9 |
| 15. Western Hills | 38.2 |
| 16. Lexington Christian | 37.1 |
| 17. Paul Laurence Dunbar | 35.3 |
| 18. Model | 24.3 |
| 12TH REGION | |
| 1. Pulaski County | 76.8 |
| 2. Southwestern | 74.8 |
| 3. Mercer County | 74.5 |
| 4. Danville | 73.2 |
| 5. Somerset | 70.7 |
| 6. Danville Christian | 69.0 |
| 7. Rockcastle County | 62.5 |
| 8. Wayne County | 60.9 |
| 9. West Jessamine | 60.4 |
| 10. Lincoln County | 57.9 |
| 11. Casey County | 57.1 |
| 12. Boyle County | 55.8 |
| 13. McCreary Central | 46.9 |
| 14. East Jessamine | 32.9 |
| 15. Garrard County | 30.0 |
| 16. Burgin | 17.4 |
| 13TH REGION | |
| 1. North Laurel | 80.1 |
| 2. South Laurel | 78.7 |
| 3. Knox Central | 77.4 |
| 4. Corbin | 71.1 |
| 5. Jackson County | 70.1 |
| 6. Bell County | 69.7 |
| 7. Harlan County | 64.1 |
| 8. Pineville | 56.8 |
| 9. Harlan | 53.3 |
| 10. Whitley County | 42.9 |
| 11. Clay County | 39.7 |
| 12. Williamsburg | 33.9 |
| 13. Barbourville | 30.7 |
| 14. Lynn Camp | 27.7 |
| 15. Middlesboro | 23.8 |
| 16. Oneida | 0.1 |
| 14TH REGION | |
| 1. Perry Central | 64.1 |
| 2. Leslie County | 63.4 |
| 3. Knott Central | 62.5 |
| 4. Letcher Central | 61.0 |
| 5. Owsley County | 60.9 |
| 6. Estill County | 53.3 |
| 7. Powell County | 47.3 |
| 8. Hazard | 47.1 |
| 9. Wolfe County | 44.6 |
| 10. Breathitt County | 34.5 |
| 11. Buckhorn | 34.2 |
| 12. Lee County | 18.7 |
| 13. June Buchanan | 14.1 |
| 14. Cordia | 6.1 |
| 15. Jackson City | 5.4 |
| 15TH REGION | |
| 1. Pikeville | 82.0 |
| 2. Lawrence County | 73.9 |
| 3. Martin County | 68.8 |
| 4. Johnson Central | 66.3 |
| 5. Floyd Central | 62.7 |
| 6. Paintsville | 60.8 |
| 7. Belfry | 51.6 |
| 8. Pike Central | 46.0 |
| 9. Prestonsburg | 45.0 |
| 10. Shelby Valley | 42.0 |
| 11. Betsy Layne | 38.9 |
| 12. Phelps | 35.5 |
| 13. Jenkins | 33.9 |
| 14. Magoffin County | 31.0 |
| 15. East Ridge | 20.0 |
| 16TH REGION | |
| 1. Russell | 79.3 |
| 2. Ashland Blazer | 76.1 |
| 2. Rowan County | 76.1 |
| 4. Boyd County | 71.4 |
| 5. Menifee County | 65.2 |
| 6. Lewis County | 64.0 |
| 7. Greenup County | 58.4 |
| 8. Bath County | 57.7 |
| 9. Morgan County | 56.3 |
| 10. Fleming County | 51.6 |
| 11. Elliott County | 50.1 |
| 12. West Carter | 46.0 |
| 13. Raceland | 40.0 |
| 14. East Carter | 39.8 |
| 15. Fairview | 14.2 |
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