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 (21-3) | 91.3 | 1 |
| 2. Mercy (16-8) | 87.7 | 3 |
| 3. McCracken County (24-2) | 87.1 | 4 |
| 4. Cooper (17-3) | 86.9 | 2 |
| 5. Manual (21-2) | 86.2 | 5 |
| 6. Bowling Green (15-8) | 83.0 | 8 |
| 7. George Rogers Clark (15-6) | 82.1 | 9 |
| 8. Covington Holy Cross (20-5) | 82.0 | 19 |
| 9. Pikeville (18-5) | 81.8 | 6 |
| 9. Central (11-10) | 81.8 | 10 |
| 11. Meade County (14-8) | 81.5 | 11 |
| 12. Henderson County (15-4) | 81.4 | 7 |
| 13. North Laurel (17-4) | 81.3 | 13 |
| 14. Madison Central (16-4) | 80.8 | t15 |
| 14. Bethlehem (17-6) | 80.8 | 23 |
| 16. Christian Academy-Louisville (15-5) | 80.4 | 14 |
| 17. Franklin County (17-4) | 80.2 | t15 |
| 18. Frederick Douglass (13-7) | 80.1 | 18 |
| 19. Russell (15-8) | 79.8 | t21 |
| 20. Dixie Heights (18-6) | 79.7 | NR |
| 21. Pulaski County (19-4) | 79.0 | NR |
| 22. Owensboro Catholic (16-5) | 78.9 | NR |
| 23. Conner (14-6) | 78.4 | NR |
| 23. Rowan County (15-7) | 78.4 | 20 |
| 25. Notre Dame (12-6) | 78.0 | 25 |
Ratings by region
| 1ST REGION | |
| 1. McCracken County | 87.1 |
| 2. Graves County | 69.3 |
| 3. Marshall County | 57.4 |
| 4. Calloway County | 51.9 |
| 5. Mayfield | 51.5 |
| 6. Paducah Tilghman | 50.8 |
| 7. Christian Fellowship | 48.3 |
| 8. Carlisle County | 41.9 |
| 9. Murray | 41.0 |
| 10. Ballard Memorial | 38.3 |
| 11. Fulton County | 36.1 |
| 12. Hickman County | 33.9 |
| 13. Fulton City | 24.3 |
| 14. St. Mary | 23.6 |
| 15. Community Christian | 0.1 |
| 2ND REGION | |
| 1. Henderson County | 81.4 |
| 2. Madisonville | 65.5 |
| 3. Hopkins Central | 63.1 |
| 4. Union County | 62.8 |
| 5. Crittenden County | 60.6 |
| 6. Webster County | 55.8 |
| 7. Lyon County | 51.0 |
| 8. Christian County | 50.9 |
| 9. Hopkinsville | 43.4 |
| 10. Livingston Central | 42.2 |
| 11. Trigg County | 36.9 |
| 12. Caldwell County | 36.7 |
| 13. University Heights | 24.4 |
| 14. Dawson Springs | 22.1 |
| 15. Heritage Christian | 5.2 |
| 16. Fort Campbell | 0.1 |
| 3RD REGION | |
| 1. Meade County | 81.5 |
| 2. Owensboro Catholic | 78.9 |
| 3. Owensboro | 65.9 |
| 4. Breckinridge County | 65.3 |
| 5. Daviess County | 60.4 |
| 6. Hancock County | 59.8 |
| 7. Edmonson County | 56.4 |
| 8. Muhlenberg County | 56.0 |
| 9. Apollo | 54.0 |
| 10. Butler County | 53.4 |
| 11. Ohio County | 46.4 |
| 12. Grayson County | 44.3 |
| 13. McLean County | 35.9 |
| 14. Whitesville Trinity | 30.1 |
| 15. Cloverport | 1.5 |
| 4TH REGION | |
| 1. Bowling Green | 83.0 |
| 2. Barren County | 69.3 |
| 3. Franklin-Simpson | 68.3 |
| 4. South Warren | 60.3 |
| 5. Greenwood | 57.3 |
| 6. Metcalfe County | 57.0 |
| 7. Monroe County | 56.4 |
| 8. Allen County | 54.8 |
| 8. Logan County | 54.8 |
| 8. Todd Central | 54.8 |
| 11. Russellville | 54.7 |
| 12. Cumberland County | 54.4 |
| 13. Glasgow | 51.1 |
| 14. Clinton County | 49.4 |
| 14. Russell County | 49.4 |
| 16. Warren East | 48.1 |
| 17. Warren Central | 38.9 |
| 5TH REGION | |
| 1. Bethlehem | 80.8 |
| 2. Nelson County | 70.7 |
| 3. Taylor County | 70.1 |
| 4. North Hardin | 67.6 |
| 5. Bardstown | 63.2 |
| 6. Elizabethtown | 62.6 |
| 7. John Hardin | 59.1 |
| 8. Central Hardin | 58.1 |
| 9. Hart County | 56.8 |
| 10. Green County | 55.3 |
| 11. Campbellsville | 42.7 |
| 12. Thomas Nelson | 41.8 |
| 13. Adair County | 40.6 |
| 14. LaRue County | 37.6 |
| 15. Marion County | 35.0 |
| 16. Washington County | 28.9 |
| 17. Caverna | 22.1 |
| 18. Fort Knox | 14.4 |
| 19. North Hardin Classical | 4.4 |
| 6TH REGION | |
| 1. Mercy | 87.7 |
| 2. Bullitt East | 77.5 |
| 3. Whitefield Academy | 71.2 |
| 4. Butler | 67.1 |
| 5. North Bullitt | 61.9 |
| 6. Bullitt Central | 58.5 |
| 7. Pleasure Ridge Park | 52.0 |
| 8. Louisville Holy Cross | 41.2 |
| 9. Valley | 30.7 |
| 10. Fern Creek | 30.2 |
| 11. Moore | 27.4 |
| 12. Beth Haven | 21.0 |
| 13. Western | 18.3 |
| 14. Iroquois | 7.3 |
| 15. Fairdale | 4.6 |
| 16. Jeffersontown | 4.1 |
| 17. Southern | 1.8 |
| 18. Doss | 0.1 |
| 7TH REGION | |
| 1. Sacred Heart | 91.3 |
| 2. Manual | 86.2 |
| 3. Central | 81.8 |
| 4. Christian Academy-Louisville | 80.4 |
| 5. Assumption | 76.2 |
| 6. Male | 75.0 |
| 7. Ballard | 53.6 |
| 8. Portland Christian | 48.6 |
| 9. Shawnee | 34.6 |
| 10. Eastern | 28.3 |
| 11. Presentation | 27.5 |
| 12. Collegiate | 26.3 |
| 13. Brown | 24.0 |
| 14. Atherton | 21.5 |
| 15. Kentucky Country Day | 16.3 |
| 16. Highlands Latin | 15.7 |
| 17. Seneca | 11.8 |
| 18. Waggener | 5.8 |
| 8TH REGION | |
| 1. Anderson County | 75.6 |
| 2. Spencer County | 71.8 |
| 3. Simon Kenton | 65.3 |
| 4. Grant County | 63.1 |
| 5. Walton-Verona | 62.1 |
| 6. North Oldham | 60.4 |
| 7. Owen County | 60.2 |
| 8. South Oldham | 59.1 |
| 9. Shelby County | 49.9 |
| 10. Oldham County | 48.6 |
| 11. Carroll County | 43.1 |
| 12. Gallatin County | 37.3 |
| 13. Henry County | 36.3 |
| 14. Collins | 35.6 |
| 15. Trimble County | 34.2 |
| 16. Woodford County | 32.0 |
| 17. Eminence | 15.2 |
| 18. Williamstown | 13.8 |
| 9TH REGION | |
| 1. Cooper | 86.9 |
| 2. Covington Holy Cross | 82.0 |
| 3. Dixie Heights | 79.7 |
| 4. Conner | 78.4 |
| 5. Notre Dame | 78.0 |
| 6. Ryle | 77.7 |
| 7. Highlands | 73.8 |
| 8. Newport Central Catholic | 58.1 |
| 9. St. Henry | 58.0 |
| 10. Beechwood | 49.4 |
| 11. Lloyd | 45.6 |
| 12. Ludlow | 43.6 |
| 13. Boone County | 41.0 |
| 14. Bellevue | 37.6 |
| 15. Newport | 30.4 |
| 16. Dayton | 20.8 |
| 17. Holmes | 19.6 |
| 18. Villa Madonna | 12.7 |
| 10TH REGION | |
| 1. George Rogers Clark | 82.1 |
| 2. Montgomery County | 74.0 |
| 3. Paris | 69.6 |
| 4. Bishop Brossart | 66.7 |
| 5. Pendleton County | 62.5 |
| 6. Scott | 61.7 |
| 7. Bracken County | 59.3 |
| 8. Campbell County | 56.6 |
| 9. Nicholas County | 55.5 |
| 10. Mason County | 54.8 |
| 11. Bourbon County | 48.8 |
| 12. St. Patrick | 47.8 |
| 13. Augusta | 42.0 |
| 14. Harrison County | 35.1 |
| 15. Robertson County | 26.3 |
| 11TH REGION | |
| 1. Madison Central | 80.8 |
| 2. Franklin County | 80.2 |
| 3. Frederick Douglass | 80.1 |
| 4. Great Crossing | 71.0 |
| 5. Lafayette | 66.7 |
| 6. Madison Southern | 65.3 |
| 7. Henry Clay | 64.9 |
| 8. Lexington Catholic | 64.5 |
| 9. Tates Creek | 58.6 |
| 10. Berea | 54.0 |
| 11. Bryan Station | 53.5 |
| 12. Scott County | 47.9 |
| 13. Sayre | 45.4 |
| 14. Western Hills | 42.1 |
| 15. Lexington Christian | 40.8 |
| 16. Frankfort | 37.9 |
| 17. Paul Laurence Dunbar | 33.5 |
| 18. Model | 23.0 |
| 12TH REGION | |
| 1. Pulaski County | 79.0 |
| 2. Southwestern | 75.1 |
| 3. Danville | 74.8 |
| 4. Danville Christian | 73.8 |
| 5. Mercer County | 71.7 |
| 6. Somerset | 71.5 |
| 7. Rockcastle County | 68.4 |
| 8. Lincoln County | 58.6 |
| 9. Wayne County | 58.3 |
| 10. Casey County | 57.7 |
| 11. West Jessamine | 55.5 |
| 12. Boyle County | 54.7 |
| 13. McCreary Central | 47.3 |
| 14. East Jessamine | 35.1 |
| 15. Garrard County | 30.1 |
| 16. Burgin | 25.4 |
| 13TH REGION | |
| 1. North Laurel | 81.3 |
| 2. Corbin | 77.9 |
| 3. Knox Central | 75.4 |
| 4. South Laurel | 71.1 |
| 5. Bell County | 70.0 |
| 6. Jackson County | 67.9 |
| 7. Harlan County | 62.1 |
| 8. Pineville | 59.2 |
| 9. Harlan | 52.5 |
| 10. Clay County | 41.3 |
| 11. Whitley County | 40.5 |
| 12. Williamsburg | 34.2 |
| 13. Barbourville | 31.0 |
| 14. Lynn Camp | 29.0 |
| 15. Middlesboro | 26.9 |
| 16. Oneida | 0.2 |
| 14TH REGION | |
| 1. Perry Central | 64.3 |
| 2. Leslie County | 61.6 |
| 3. Knott Central | 60.6 |
| 4. Letcher Central | 58.7 |
| 5. Owsley County | 58.1 |
| 6. Estill County | 48.7 |
| 7. Powell County | 48.1 |
| 8. Hazard | 46.3 |
| 9. Wolfe County | 42.0 |
| 10. Buckhorn | 36.7 |
| 11. Breathitt County | 34.7 |
| 12. Lee County | 22.8 |
| 13. June Buchanan | 18.4 |
| 14. Cordia | 11.4 |
| 15. Jackson City | 3.5 |
| 15TH REGION | |
| 1. Pikeville | 81.8 |
| 2. Lawrence County | 74.9 |
| 3. Martin County | 67.6 |
| 4. Floyd Central | 66.9 |
| 5. Johnson Central | 62.8 |
| 6. Paintsville | 62.1 |
| 7. Pike Central | 47.1 |
| 8. Belfry | 46.9 |
| 8. Prestonsburg | 46.9 |
| 10. Shelby Valley | 39.4 |
| 11. Betsy Layne | 39.2 |
| 12. Jenkins | 34.2 |
| 13. Phelps | 34.1 |
| 14. Magoffin County | 30.8 |
| 15. East Ridge | 20.0 |
| 16TH REGION | |
| 1. Russell | 79.8 |
| 2. Rowan County | 78.4 |
| 3. Ashland Blazer | 73.9 |
| 4. Boyd County | 69.5 |
| 5. Lewis County | 66.1 |
| 6. Menifee County | 61.9 |
| 7. Morgan County | 60.6 |
| 8. Greenup County | 56.7 |
| 9. Fleming County | 55.2 |
| 10. Bath County | 55.0 |
| 11. East Carter | 45.9 |
| 12. Elliott County | 44.8 |
| 13. West Carter | 43.7 |
| 14. Raceland | 43.4 |
| 15. Fairview | 14.5 |
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This story was originally published January 29, 2023 at 4:15 PM.