High school basketball: Dave Cantrall’s top 25 girls’ teams in Kentucky
Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State
| GIRLS’ TOP 25 | Rating | Last week |
| 1. Sacred Heart (17-3) | 90.1 | 1 |
| 2. Cooper (15-2) | 88.8 | 2 |
| 3. Mercy (15-7) | 87.1 | 5 |
| 4. McCracken County (21-2) | 86.2 | 4 |
| 5. Manual (18-1) | 86.0 | 3 |
| 6. Pikeville (16-4) | 83.0 | 8 |
| 7. Henderson County (14-3) | 82.7 | 7 |
| 8. Bowling Green (13-8) | 82.5 | 9 |
| 9. George Rogers Clark (13-6) | 82.2 | 6 |
| 10. Central (9-9) | 82.1 | t10 |
| 11. Meade County (13-7) | 81.7 | t14 |
| 12. Ryle (16-6) | 81.1 | t10 |
| 13. North Laurel (14-4) | 80.7 | 13 |
| 14. Louisville Christian (14-4) | 80.2 | t14 |
| 15. Franklin County (16-4) | 80.1 | 20 |
| 15. Madison Central (14-4) | 80.1 | NR |
| 17. Owensboro Catholic (16-4) | 78.9 | NR |
| 18. Frederick Douglass (12-7) | 78.8 | 12 |
| 19. Covington Holy Cross (17-5) | 78.7 | 17 |
| 20. Rowan County (14-7) | 78.5 | NR |
| 21. Corbin (14-5) | 78.4 | NR |
| 21. Russell (14-7) | 78.4 | 16 |
| 23. Bethlehem (14-6) | 77.9 | 22 |
| 24. Assumption (16-5) | 77.7 | NR |
| 25. Notre Dame (12-5) | 77.3 | 21 |
Ratings by region
| 1ST REGION | |
| 1. McCracken County | 86.2 |
| 2. Graves County | 71.3 |
| 3. Marshall County | 57.3 |
| 4. Paducah Tilghman | 51.6 |
| 5. Calloway County | 50.9 |
| 6. Mayfield | 50.4 |
| 7. Christian Fellowship | 48.5 |
| 8. Carlisle County | 44.1 |
| 9. Murray | 41.5 |
| 10. Ballard Memorial | 37.1 |
| 11. Fulton County | 35.6 |
| 12. Hickman County | 34.2 |
| 13. Fulton City | 24.7 |
| 14. St. Mary | 23.6 |
| 15. Community Christian | 0.3 |
| 2ND REGION | |
| 1. Henderson County | 82.7 |
| 2. Madisonville | 65.6 |
| 3. Hopkins Central | 64.6 |
| 4. Union County | 61.4 |
| 5. Crittenden County | 60.3 |
| 6. Webster County | 56.3 |
| 7. Christian County | 52.8 |
| 8. Lyon County | 51.0 |
| 9. Hopkinsville | 43.6 |
| 10. Livingston Central | 41.8 |
| 11. Trigg County | 38.0 |
| 12. Caldwell County | 34.0 |
| 13. University Heights | 28.9 |
| 14. Dawson Springs | 21.2 |
| 15. Heritage Christian | 6.6 |
| 16. Fort Campbell | 0.1 |
| 3RD REGION | |
| 1. Meade County | 81.7 |
| 2. Owensboro Catholic | 78.9 |
| 3. Breckinridge County | 68.6 |
| 4. Owensboro | 65.2 |
| 5. Daviess County | 60.4 |
| 6. Hancock County | 57.1 |
| 7. Muhlenberg County | 56.2 |
| 8. Apollo | 54.1 |
| 9. Edmonson County | 53.7 |
| 10. Butler County | 51.3 |
| 11. Ohio County | 46.3 |
| 12. Grayson County | 43.1 |
| 13. McLean County | 36.0 |
| 14. Whitesville Trinity | 31.2 |
| 15. Cloverport | 0.1 |
| 4TH REGION | |
| 1. Bowling Green | 82.5 |
| 2. Barren County | 70.4 |
| 3. Franklin-Simpson | 67.7 |
| 4. South Warren | 60.7 |
| 5. Greenwood | 60.2 |
| 6. Metcalfe County | 57.7 |
| 7. Monroe County | 57.5 |
| 8. Allen County | 55.1 |
| 9. Logan County | 55.0 |
| 10. Todd Central | 54.5 |
| 11. Cumberland County | 53.8 |
| 12. Glasgow | 52.0 |
| 13. Clinton County | 50.0 |
| 14. Russellville | 49.8 |
| 14. Warren East | 49.8 |
| 16. Russell County | 48.3 |
| 17. Warren Central | 38.2 |
| 5TH REGION | |
| 1. Bethlehem | 77.9 |
| 2. Nelson County | 71.5 |
| 3. Taylor County | 71.3 |
| 4. North Hardin | 65.7 |
| 5. Elizabethtown | 65.2 |
| 6. Bardstown | 62.4 |
| 7. John Hardin | 59.9 |
| 8. Central Hardin | 59.3 |
| 9. Hart County | 56.7 |
| 10. Green County | 56.2 |
| 11. Adair County | 43.2 |
| 12. Thomas Nelson | 42.3 |
| 13. Campbellsville | 41.1 |
| 14. LaRue County | 37.4 |
| 15. Marion County | 35.1 |
| 16. Washington County | 30.3 |
| 17. Caverna | 22.7 |
| 18. Fort Knox | 17.2 |
| 19. North Hardin Classical | 4.4 |
| 6TH REGION | |
| 1. Mercy | 87.1 |
| 2. Bullitt East | 76.7 |
| 3. Whitefield Academy | 75.8 |
| 4. Butler | 63.8 |
| 5. North Bullitt | 60.0 |
| 6. Bullitt Central | 58.9 |
| 7. Pleasure Ridge Park | 54.5 |
| 8. Louisville Holy Cross | 39.6 |
| 9. Valley | 30.7 |
| 10. Fern Creek | 30.2 |
| 11. Moore | 27.4 |
| 12. Beth Haven | 22.4 |
| 13. Western | 19.6 |
| 14. Iroquois | 5.2 |
| 15. Southern | 5.1 |
| 16. Jeffersontown | 3.8 |
| 17. Fairdale | 3.2 |
| 18. Doss | 0.1 |
| 7TH REGION | |
| 1. Sacred Heart | 90.1 |
| 2. Manual | 86.0 |
| 3. Central | 82.1 |
| 4. Christian Academy-Louisville | 80.2 |
| 5. Assumption | 77.7 |
| 6. Male | 75.7 |
| 7. Ballard | 50.2 |
| 8. Portland Christian | 48.5 |
| 9. Shawnee | 39.7 |
| 10. Presentation | 29.9 |
| 11. Eastern | 29.1 |
| 12. Collegiate | 25.0 |
| 13. Brown | 24.0 |
| 14. Atherton | 20.8 |
| 15. Kentucky Country Day | 15.0 |
| 16. Seneca | 13.6 |
| 17. Highlands Latin | 13.1 |
| 18. Waggener | 2.6 |
| 8TH REGION | |
| 1. Anderson County | 74.6 |
| 2. Spencer County | 69.6 |
| 3. Simon Kenton | 66.5 |
| 4. Grant County | 64.7 |
| 5. Walton-Verona | 63.6 |
| 6. Owen County | 61.9 |
| 7. North Oldham | 61.1 |
| 8. South Oldham | 59.7 |
| 9. Oldham County | 52.9 |
| 10. Shelby County | 48.8 |
| 11. Carroll County | 43.1 |
| 12. Henry County | 37.1 |
| 13. Gallatin County | 36.5 |
| 14. Collins | 35.1 |
| 15. Woodford County | 32.6 |
| 16. Trimble County | 31.8 |
| 17. Eminence | 15.0 |
| 18. Williamstown | 13.8 |
| 9TH REGION | |
| 1. Cooper | 88.8 |
| 2. Ryle | 81.1 |
| 3. Covington Holy Cross | 78.7 |
| 4. Notre Dame | 77.3 |
| 5. Conner | 77.2 |
| 6. Dixie Heights | 75.6 |
| 7. Highlands | 72.2 |
| 8. Newport Central Catholic | 58.5 |
| 9. St. Henry | 57.8 |
| 10. Beechwood | 50.3 |
| 11. Lloyd | 46.3 |
| 12. Ludlow | 42.0 |
| 13. Boone County | 40.5 |
| 14. Bellevue | 36.4 |
| 15. Newport | 34.8 |
| 16. Dayton | 22.8 |
| 17. Holmes | 19.6 |
| 18. Villa Madonna | 15.0 |
| 10TH REGION | |
| 1. George Rogers Clark | 82.2 |
| 2. Montgomery County | 74.8 |
| 3. Paris | 68.4 |
| 4. Bishop Brossart | 67.6 |
| 5. Scott | 64.0 |
| 6. Pendleton County | 61.5 |
| 7. Bracken County | 59.8 |
| 8. Nicholas County | 56.0 |
| 9. Mason County | 55.7 |
| 10. Campbell County | 53.7 |
| 11. Bourbon County | 47.4 |
| 12. St. Patrick | 45.6 |
| 13. Augusta | 36.5 |
| 14. Harrison County | 36.3 |
| 15. Robertson County | 29.3 |
| 11TH REGION | |
| 1. Franklin County | 80.1 |
| 1. Madison Central | 80.1 |
| 3. Frederick Douglass | 78.8 |
| 4. Great Crossing | 70.3 |
| 5. Lafayette | 69.1 |
| 6. Madison Southern | 66.6 |
| 7. Lexington Catholic | 64.5 |
| 8. Henry Clay | 64.4 |
| 9. Tates Creek | 60.7 |
| 10. Bryan Station | 55.2 |
| 11. Berea | 50.0 |
| 12. Sayre | 45.5 |
| 13. Scott County | 45.2 |
| 14. Western Hills | 42.2 |
| 15. Lexington Christian | 40.9 |
| 16. Frankfort | 39.4 |
| 17. Paul Laurence Dunbar | 32.8 |
| 18. Model | 22.3 |
| 12TH REGION | |
| 1. Southwestern | 75.7 |
| 2. Pulaski County | 75.0 |
| 3. Danville | 74.9 |
| 4. Danville Christian | 72.4 |
| 5. Mercer County | 72.0 |
| 6. Somerset | 70.0 |
| 7. Rockcastle County | 65.0 |
| 8. Lincoln County | 61.0 |
| 9. Wayne County | 59.7 |
| 10. Casey County | 57.3 |
| 11. West Jessamine | 55.6 |
| 12. Boyle County | 54.9 |
| 13. McCreary Central | 50.3 |
| 14. East Jessamine | 35.1 |
| 15. Garrard County | 27.1 |
| 16. Burgin | 23.8 |
| 13TH REGION | |
| 1. North Laurel | 80.7 |
| 2. Corbin | 78.4 |
| 3. Knox Central | 76.9 |
| 4. Bell County | 72.1 |
| 5. South Laurel | 71.4 |
| 6. Jackson County | 68.5 |
| 7. Harlan County | 62.7 |
| 8. Pineville | 59.4 |
| 9. Harlan | 51.0 |
| 10. Whitley County | 42.2 |
| 11. Clay County | 41.4 |
| 12. Williamsburg | 31.6 |
| 13. Barbourville | 29.2 |
| 14. Lynn Camp | 28.4 |
| 15. Middlesboro | 24.6 |
| 16. Oneida | 0.1 |
| 14TH REGION | |
| 1. Perry Central | 66.0 |
| 2. Leslie County | 63.4 |
| 3. Owsley County | 60.4 |
| 4. Letcher Central | 60.2 |
| 5. Knott Central | 60.0 |
| 6. Estill County | 51.1 |
| 7. Powell County | 48.3 |
| 8. Hazard | 45.9 |
| 9. Wolfe County | 42.1 |
| 10. Buckhorn | 36.7 |
| 11. Breathitt County | 34.5 |
| 12. Lee County | 20.3 |
| 13. June Buchanan | 13.9 |
| 14. Cordia | 10.2 |
| 15. Jackson City | 4.6 |
| 15TH REGION | |
| 1. Pikeville | 83.0 |
| 2. Lawrence County | 73.4 |
| 3. Martin County | 66.2 |
| 4. Floyd Central | 65.8 |
| 5. Johnson Central | 64.6 |
| 6. Paintsville | 60.1 |
| 7. Prestonsburg | 48.1 |
| 8. Pike Central | 47.0 |
| 9. Belfry | 46.3 |
| 10. Shelby Valley | 43.7 |
| 11. Betsy Layne | 40.1 |
| 12. Phelps | 35.9 |
| 13. Jenkins | 34.6 |
| 14. Magoffin County | 29.9 |
| 15. East Ridge | 19.1 |
| 16TH REGION | |
| 1. Rowan County | 78.5 |
| 2. Russell | 78.4 |
| 3. Ashland Blazer | 75.0 |
| 4. Boyd County | 68.0 |
| 5. Lewis County | 67.0 |
| 6. Menifee County | 61.8 |
| 7. Morgan County | 58.7 |
| 8. Greenup County | 56.7 |
| 9. Bath County | 55.7 |
| 10. Fleming County | 54.4 |
| 11. East Carter | 47.2 |
| 12. West Carter | 46.4 |
| 13. Elliott County | 44.1 |
| 14. Raceland | 43.2 |
| 15. Fairview | 14.0 |
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This story was originally published January 22, 2023 at 1:34 PM.