High school basketball: Dave Cantrall’s top 25 girls teams in Kentucky (Jan. 14)
Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State
| GIRLS TOP 25 | Rating | Last week |
| 1. George Rogers Clark (17-1) | 88.3 | 1 |
| 2. Sacred Heart (11-5) | 85.6 | 4 |
| 3. Cooper (16-3) | 85.4 | 2 |
| 4. Pikeville (12-1) | 85.2 | 3 |
| 5. North Laurel (11-3) | 83.3 | t10 |
| 6. Anderson County (15-1) | 82.5 | 7 |
| 7. Boyd County (13-4) | 82.1 | 9 |
| 8. Franklin County (13-6) | 81.8 | 8 |
| 9. Covington Holy Cross (12-5) | 81.7 | 6 |
| 10. Franklin-Simpson (16-0) | 81.5 | t10 |
| 10. Frederick Douglass (12-5) | 81.5 | 17 |
| 12. Butler (13-4) | 81.4 | 14 |
| 13. McCracken County (14-3) | 81.3 | 5 |
| 14. Rockcastle County (13-3) | 80.5 | 13 |
| 15. Owensboro Catholic (12-3) | 80.3 | t20 |
| 16. Russell (13-4) | 79.8 | 18 |
| 17. Ryle (10-7) | 79.2 | 15 |
| 18. Ashland Blazer (9-4) | 78.8 | 24 |
| 19. Notre Dame (14-3) | 78.4 | 23 |
| 19. Christian Academy-Louisville (10-5) | 78.4 | 19 |
| 21. Owensboro (12-5) | 78.1 | NR |
| 22. Assumption (11-8) | 77.8 | NR |
| 23. Danville Christian (16-1) | 77.7 | 16 |
| 24. Bethlehem (11-6) | 77.5 | NR |
| 25. Pulaski County (14-5) | 77.2 | 12 |
Ratings by region
| 1ST REGION | Rating |
| 1. McCracken County | 81.3 |
| 2. Marshall County | 66.1 |
| 3. Calloway County | 63.9 |
| 4. Graves County | 62.2 |
| 5. Mayfield | 51.5 |
| 6. Carlisle County | 50.3 |
| 7. Fulton County | 45.9 |
| 8. Ballard Memorial | 41.1 |
| 9. Paducah Tilghman | 40.3 |
| 10. Christian Fellowship | 37.6 |
| 11. Murray | 33.7 |
| 12. Hickman County | 28.6 |
| 13. St. Mary | 21.6 |
| 14. Fulton City | 15.5 |
| 15. Community Christian | 14.3 |
| 2ND REGION | |
| 1. Henderson County | 70.8 |
| 2. Christian County | 64.3 |
| 3. Lyon County | 61.6 |
| 4. Madisonville | 61.5 |
| 5. Crittenden County | 55.8 |
| 6. Hopkins Central | 52.9 |
| 7. Union County | 51.7 |
| 8. Hopkinsville | 50.9 |
| 9. Livingston Central | 48.9 |
| 10. Caldwell County | 45.2 |
| 11. Webster County | 44.5 |
| 12. Trigg County | 27.8 |
| 13. Dawson Springs | 13.1 |
| 14. Heritage Christian | 3.3 |
| 15. Fort Campbell | 0.1 |
| 3RD REGION | |
| 1. Owensboro Catholic | 80.3 |
| 2. Owensboro | 78.1 |
| 3. Meade County | 76.6 |
| 4. Breckinridge County | 75.2 |
| 5. Daviess County | 74.6 |
| 6. Edmonson County | 57.5 |
| 7. Grayson County | 51.3 |
| 8. Hancock County | 51.1 |
| 9. Butler County | 50.7 |
| 10. Muhlenberg County | 49.3 |
| 11. Apollo | 44.6 |
| 12. Ohio County | 39.3 |
| 13. McLean County | 36.1 |
| 14. Whitesville Trinity | 27.0 |
| 15. Cloverport | 5.0 |
| 4TH REGION | |
| 1. Franklin-Simpson | 81.5 |
| 2. Bowling Green | 74.5 |
| 3. Barren County | 70.6 |
| 4. Warren East | 66.7 |
| 5. Metcalfe County | 61.4 |
| 6. Russell County | 61.0 |
| 7. Cumberland County | 60.5 |
| 8. Greenwood | 59.4 |
| 9. Allen County | 59.1 |
| 9. South Warren | 59.1 |
| 11. Logan County | 55.9 |
| 12. Monroe County | 55.1 |
| 13. Todd Central | 53.6 |
| 14. Glasgow | 51.5 |
| 15. Clinton County | 47.9 |
| 16. Warren Central | 38.8 |
| 17. Russellville | 16.0 |
| 5TH REGION | |
| 1. Bethlehem | 77.5 |
| 2. Bardstown | 73.3 |
| 3. North Hardin | 73.0 |
| 4. Taylor County | 72.9 |
| 5. Elizabethtown | 70.3 |
| 6. Green County | 64.6 |
| 7. Hart County | 63.0 |
| 8. John Hardin | 60.3 |
| 9. Central Hardin | 58.0 |
| 10. Nelson County | 52.4 |
| 11. Thomas Nelson | 49.9 |
| 12. Adair County | 49.2 |
| 13. Marion County | 43.4 |
| 14. Campbellsville | 39.4 |
| 15. LaRue County | 32.0 |
| 16. Washington County | 30.4 |
| 17. North Hardin Classical | 14.3 |
| 18. Caverna | 3.3 |
| 19. Fort Knox | 0.1 |
| 6TH REGION | |
| 1. Butler | 81.4 |
| 2. Bullitt East | 75.2 |
| 3. Mercy | 72.0 |
| 4. Whitefield Academy | 70.4 |
| 5. North Bullitt | 60.8 |
| 6. Pleasure Ridge Park | 60.7 |
| 7. Bullitt Central | 54.3 |
| 8. Louisville Holy Cross | 48.7 |
| 9. Grace James | 47.3 |
| 10. Valley | 38.0 |
| 11. Fern Creek | 27.5 |
| 12. Moore | 21.4 |
| 13. Southern | 19.2 |
| 14. Fairdale | 13.0 |
| 15. Western | 11.5 |
| 16. Jeffersontown | 10.2 |
| 17. Doss | 8.4 |
| 18. Iroquois | 8.3 |
| 19. Beth Haven | 0.1 |
| 7TH REGION | |
| 1. Sacred Heart | 85.6 |
| 2. Christian Academy-Louisville | 78.4 |
| 3. Assumption | 77.8 |
| 4. Central | 76.6 |
| 5. Manual | 73.6 |
| 6. Male | 62.9 |
| 7. Ballard | 62.5 |
| 8. Shawnee | 47.6 |
| 9. Portland Christian | 28.7 |
| 10. Collegiate | 28.1 |
| 11. Brown | 28.0 |
| 12. Seneca | 26.4 |
| 13. Eastern | 25.1 |
| 14. Presentation | 22.7 |
| 15. Highlands Latin | 18.0 |
| 16. Waggener | 12.8 |
| 17. Atherton | 8.0 |
| 18. Kentucky Country Day | 2.5 |
| 19. Francis Parker | 1.2 |
| 8TH REGION | |
| 1. Anderson County | 82.5 |
| 2. Simon Kenton | 76.7 |
| 3. Grant County | 72.8 |
| 4. South Oldham | 69.9 |
| 5. Spencer County | 67.2 |
| 6. Walton-Verona | 59.3 |
| 7. North Oldham | 50.7 |
| 8. Woodford County | 47.4 |
| 9. Oldham County | 47.3 |
| 10. Owen County | 46.1 |
| 11. Trimble County | 42.8 |
| 12. Gallatin County | 40.6 |
| 13. Henry County | 34.5 |
| 14. Collins | 33.8 |
| 15. Carroll County | 29.6 |
| 16. Eminence | 28.1 |
| 17. Shelby County | 22.3 |
| 18. Williamstown | 13.9 |
| 9TH REGION | |
| 1. Cooper | 85.4 |
| 2. Covington Holy Cross | 81.7 |
| 3. Ryle | 79.2 |
| 4. Notre Dame | 78.4 |
| 5. Highlands | 77.1 |
| 6. Dixie Heights | 73.4 |
| 7. Conner | 71.4 |
| 8. Newport Central Catholic | 67.5 |
| 9. St. Henry | 56.8 |
| 10. Bellevue | 51.8 |
| 11. Lloyd | 45.8 |
| 12. Ludlow | 44.1 |
| 13. Boone County | 43.2 |
| 14. Beechwood | 40.7 |
| 15. Dayton | 26.3 |
| 16. Holmes | 24.5 |
| 17. Villa Madonna | 24.0 |
| 18. Newport | 16.6 |
| 19. Covington Latin | 6.5 |
| 10TH REGION | |
| 1. George Rogers Clark | 88.3 |
| 2. Montgomery County | 71.6 |
| 3. Bishop Brossart | 69.9 |
| 4. Campbell County | 67.7 |
| 5. Scott | 64.3 |
| 6. Nicholas County | 60.3 |
| 7. Mason County | 58.2 |
| 8. Bracken County | 54.6 |
| 9. Augusta | 54.5 |
| 10. Bourbon County | 45.7 |
| 11. Paris | 42.6 |
| 12. Pendleton County | 40.3 |
| 13. Robertson County | 35.4 |
| 14. Harrison County | 30.8 |
| 15. St. Patrick | 13.2 |
| 11TH REGION | |
| 1. Franklin County | 81.8 |
| 2. Frederick Douglass | 81.5 |
| 3. Madison Central | 75.1 |
| 4. Henry Clay | 71.4 |
| 5. Madison Southern | 67.3 |
| 6. Lafayette | 65.2 |
| 7. Bryan Station | 61.9 |
| 8. Scott County | 58.0 |
| 9. Tates Creek | 56.0 |
| 10. Great Crossing | 54.6 |
| 11. Lexington Christian | 52.0 |
| 12. Paul Laurence Dunbar | 50.5 |
| 13. Lexington Catholic | 50.3 |
| 14. Berea | 49.7 |
| 15. Western Hills | 47.5 |
| 16. Frankfort | 35.4 |
| 17. Model | 22.7 |
| 18. Sayre | 22.4 |
| 12TH REGION | |
| 1. Rockcastle County | 80.5 |
| 2. Danville Christian | 77.7 |
| 3. Pulaski County | 77.2 |
| 4. Southwestern | 72.8 |
| 5. West Jessamine | 69.4 |
| 6. Boyle County | 66.7 |
| 7. Mercer County | 65.4 |
| 8. Wayne County | 61.9 |
| 9. Danville | 59.8 |
| 10. Lincoln County | 51.6 |
| 11. McCreary Central | 51.3 |
| 12. Casey County | 45.1 |
| 13. Somerset | 45.0 |
| 14. Garrard County | 38.9 |
| 15. Burgin | 32.4 |
| 16. East Jessamine | 31.9 |
| 13TH REGION | |
| 1. North Laurel | 83.3 |
| 2. Corbin | 76.4 |
| 3. South Laurel | 73.4 |
| 4. Knox Central | 71.4 |
| 5. Jackson County | 69.4 |
| 6. Pineville | 66.3 |
| 7. Bell County | 64.4 |
| 8. Harlan | 60.1 |
| 9. Harlan County | 58.2 |
| 10. Whitley County | 50.4 |
| 11. Clay County | 38.7 |
| 12. Barbourville | 35.2 |
| 13. Williamsburg | 28.9 |
| 14. Middlesboro | 26.9 |
| 15. Lynn Camp | 20.5 |
| 16. Oneida | 7.2 |
| 14TH REGION | |
| 1. Owsley County | 72.1 |
| 2. Knott Central | 64.0 |
| 3. Leslie County | 63.2 |
| 4. Perry Central | 62.7 |
| 5. Letcher Central | 62.0 |
| 6. Hazard | 52.2 |
| 7. Estill County | 51.7 |
| 8. Breathitt County | 46.4 |
| 9. Powell County | 45.4 |
| 10. Wolfe County | 41.1 |
| 11. Buckhorn | 23.0 |
| 12. Lee County | 20.3 |
| 13. June Buchanan | 12.0 |
| 14. Jackson City | 9.0 |
| 15. Cordia | 3.6 |
| 15TH REGION | |
| 1. Pikeville | 85.2 |
| 2. Johnson Central | 71.1 |
| 3. Martin County | 64.7 |
| 3. Paintsville | 64.7 |
| 5. Lawrence County | 62.0 |
| 6. Pike Central | 55.2 |
| 7. Betsy Layne | 51.2 |
| 8. Prestonsburg | 49.6 |
| 9. Floyd Central | 46.9 |
| 10. Shelby Valley | 46.8 |
| 11. Belfry | 44.2 |
| 12. Phelps | 32.5 |
| 13. Magoffin County | 28.9 |
| 14. Jenkins | 20.4 |
| 15. East Ridge | 19.8 |
| 16TH REGION | |
| 1. Boyd County | 82.1 |
| 2. Russell | 79.8 |
| 3. Ashland Blazer | 78.8 |
| 4. Rowan County | 64.6 |
| 5. Fleming County | 61.2 |
| 6. Bath County | 60.4 |
| 7. Menifee County | 55.4 |
| 8. Morgan County | 54.6 |
| 9. East Carter | 54.1 |
| 10. Raceland | 50.6 |
| 11. Elliott County | 46.2 |
| 12. Lewis County | 44.4 |
| 13. Greenup County | 43.5 |
| 14. West Carter | 36.5 |
| 15. Fairview | 2.2 |
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This story was originally published January 14, 2024 at 1:14 PM.