Rating the State: A big shake-up in girls’ top 25, but Sacred Heart’s still No. 1
This week’s Rating the State for girls’ high school basketball in Kentucky, released by Dave Cantrall on Jan. 26, has Sacred Heart leading the top 25 teams in the state, followed by Bullitt East, Ryle and a tie between Simon Kenton and Mercy.
New to the top 25 this week is Southwestern and Graves County.
Sacred Heart and No. 25 Ashland Blazer are the only teams to hold their rankings from last week.
Region-by-region rankings follow the top 25.
GIRLS’ TOP 25
School | Rating | LW |
1. Sacred Heart (17-1) | 88.5 | 1 |
2. Bullitt East (15-3) | 84.5 | 7 |
3. Ryle (10-9) | 84.4 | 8 |
4. Simon Kenton (20-3) | 84.1 | t3 |
4. Mercy (13-7) | 84.1 | t5 |
6. Elizabethtown (18-3) | 83.9 | 2 |
7. Bethlehem (20-2) | 83.6 | 9 |
7. Lou. Christian (17-4) | 83.6 | t3 |
9. Casey County (15-5) | 83.3 | t11 |
10. Scott County (15-5) | 83.2 | t14 |
11. Bowling Green (16-5) | 83.0 | t14 |
12. Butler (17-3) | 82.3 | 10 |
13. Highlands (12-6) | 82.0 | 16 |
14. Manual (14-4) | 81.4 | 13 |
15. Notre Dame (15-4) | 81.3 | t11 |
15. Mercer Co. (15-5) | 81.3 | 20 |
17. Henderson Co. (10-6) | 80.8 | t22 |
18. Anderson Co. (17-4) | 80.7 | t5 |
19. Franklin Co. (15-6) | 80.5 | t22 |
20. Boyd Co. (13-6) | 80.4 | 21 |
21. South Laurel (15-4) | 80.3 | 19 |
22. Assumption (12-9) | 79.9 | t17 |
23. Southwestern (15-4) | 79.8 | NR |
24. Graves Co. (15-3) | 79.2 | NR |
25. Ashland Blazer (11-6) | 78.3 | 25 |
GIRLS’ RATINGS BY REGION
1ST REGION | |
1. Graves County | 79.2 |
2. Marshall County | 75.8 |
3. Calloway County | 71.4 |
4. McCracken County | 69.7 |
5. Murray | 63.1 |
6. Mayfield | 57.9 |
7. Hickman County | 48.8 |
8. Carlisle County | 45.7 |
9. Paducah Tilghman | 44.2 |
10. Ballard Memorial | 32.8 |
11. Fulton City | 28.0 |
12. Christian Fellowship | 20.3 |
13. Community Christian | 13.6 |
14. Fulton County | 10.5 |
15. St. Mary | 8.0 |
2ND REGION | |
1. Henderson County | 80.8 |
2. Madisonville | 77.4 |
3. Webster County | 70.3 |
4. Hopkinsville | 54.2 |
5. Christian County | 52.4 |
6. Trigg County | 50.6 |
7. Union County | 49.6 |
8. Caldwell County | 47.7 |
9. Hopkins Central | 45.4 |
10. Crittenden County | 45.1 |
11. Lyon County | 41.4 |
12. University Heights | 41.0 |
13. Dawson Springs | 36.1 |
14. Livingston Central | 24.7 |
15. Fort Campbell | 1.3 |
3RD REGION | |
1. Muhlenberg County | 72.8 |
2. Meade County | 71.2 |
3. Owensboro Catholic | 70.6 |
4. Apollo | 68.9 |
5. Breckinridge County | 65.5 |
6. Edmonson County | 58.5 |
7. McLean County | 58.4 |
8. Grayson County | 57.8 |
9. Ohio County | 55.6 |
10. Daviess County | 50.3 |
11. Hancock County | 48.2 |
12. Butler County | 45.6 |
13. Owensboro | 44.7 |
14. Whitesville Trinity | 39.6 |
15. Cloverport | 25.0 |
4TH REGION | |
1. Bowling Green | 83.0 |
2. Barren County | 74.3 |
3. Glasgow | 71.3 |
4. South Warren | 62.1 |
4. Warren East | 62.1 |
6. Russell County | 59.7 |
7. Greenwood | 58.2 |
8. Logan County | 52.4 |
9. Allen County | 50.1 |
10. Metcalfe County | 50.0 |
11. Warren Central | 49.1 |
12. Monroe County | 45.6 |
13. Russellville | 43.1 |
14. Franklin-Simpson | 40.5 |
15. Clinton County | 36.7 |
16. Cumberland County | 34.9 |
17. Todd Central | 25.1 |
5TH REGION | |
1. Elizabethtown | 83.9 |
2. Bethlehem | 83.6 |
3. Marion County | 75.5 |
4. Bardstown | 74.0 |
5. Central Hardin | 66.9 |
6. Green County | 64.4 |
7. North Hardin | 62.7 |
8. Thomas Nelson | 58.7 |
9. Campbellsville | 57.5 |
10. Hart County | 52.3 |
11. John Hardin | 48.4 |
12. Caverna | 47.6 |
13. LaRue County | 47.5 |
14. Nelson County | 46.4 |
15. Taylor County | 43.8 |
16. Adair County | 40.3 |
17. Fort Knox | 33.1 |
18. Washington County | 29.5 |
6TH REGION | |
1. Bullitt East | 84.5 |
2. Mercy | 84.1 |
3. Butler | 82.3 |
4. Pleasure Ridge Park | 73.9 |
5. Lou. Holy Cross | 47.0 |
6. Bullitt Central | 46.1 |
7. Moore | 42.1 |
8. Iroquois | 33.1 |
9. North Bullitt | 32.7 |
10. Fern Creek | 20.6 |
11. Whitefield Academy | 17.2 |
12. Fairdale | 16.6 |
13. Doss | 10.7 |
14. Western | 10.3 |
15. Southern | 8.6 |
16. Beth Haven | 0.1 |
16. Valley | 0.1 |
7TH REGION | |
1. Sacred Heart | 88.5 |
2. Louisville Christian | 83.6 |
3. Manual | 81.4 |
4. Assumption | 79.9 |
5. Central | 76.3 |
6. Male | 66.2 |
7. Ballard | 56.4 |
8. Eastern | 56.2 |
9. Collegiate | 44.7 |
10. Presentation | 41.0 |
11. Brown | 31.8 |
12. St. Francis | 25.6 |
13. Portland Christian | 24.8 |
14. Atherton | 23.1 |
15. Country Day | 18.1 |
16. Waggener | 17.3 |
17. Shawnee | 13.3 |
18. Seneca | 8.0 |
8TH REGION | |
1. Simon Kenton | 84.1 |
2. Anderson County | 80.7 |
3. Walton-Verona | 74.9 |
4. Oldham County | 70.4 |
5. Owen County | 68.7 |
6. Collins | 65.8 |
7. North Oldham | 64.6 |
8. South Oldham | 64.0 |
9. Woodford County | 62.4 |
10. Spencer County | 62.3 |
11. Grant County | 61.9 |
12. Shelby County | 51.2 |
13. Williamstown | 48.7 |
14. Gallatin County | 44.3 |
15. Trimble County | 41.3 |
16. Carroll County | 38.7 |
17. Eminence | 35.8 |
18. Henry County | 29.3 |
9TH REGION | |
1. Ryle | 84.4 |
2. Highlands | 82.0 |
3. Notre Dame | 81.3 |
4. Conner | 78.0 |
5. Dixie Heights | 77.9 |
6. Cov. Holy Cross | 69.1 |
7. Newport Catholic | 68.0 |
8. Boone County | 66.1 |
9. Cooper | 61.6 |
10. St. Henry | 60.9 |
11. Ludlow | 55.7 |
12. Lloyd | 53.5 |
13. Holmes | 38.4 |
14. Dayton | 38.1 |
15. Beechwood | 37.1 |
16. Bellevue | 36.8 |
17. Villa Madonna | 30.7 |
18. Newport | 12.9 |
19. Latin | 6.8 |
10TH REGION | |
1. Clark County | 75.9 |
2. Campbell County | 75.1 |
3. Bishop Brossart | 73.8 |
4. Paris | 63.5 |
5. Scott | 61.3 |
6. Bourbon County | 59.5 |
7. Mason County | 59.0 |
8. Montgomery County | 52.0 |
9. Harrison County | 50.9 |
10. Nicholas County | 48.3 |
11. Pendleton County | 37.1 |
12. St. Patrick | 33.2 |
13. Robertson County | 28.5 |
14. Augusta | 27.3 |
15. Bracken County | 19.5 |
11TH REGION | |
1. Scott County | 83.2 |
2. Franklin County | 80.5 |
3. Paul Dunbar | 72.5 |
4. Madison Southern | 63.4 |
5. Great Crossing | 63.3 |
6. Tates Creek | 57.8 |
7. Henry Clay | 56.1 |
8. Lexington Catholic | 53.2 |
9. Madison Central | 52.9 |
10. Lafayette | 52.4 |
11. Bryan Station | 47.9 |
12. Berea | 47.1 |
13. Frankfort | 45.8 |
14. Western Hills | 42.0 |
15. Lexington Christian | 41.6 |
16. Model | 39.4 |
17. Sayre | 36.9 |
18. Frederick Douglass | 36.4 |
19. Frankfort Christian | 1.1 |
12TH REGION | |
1. Casey County | 83.3 |
2. Mercer County | 81.3 |
3. Southwestern | 79.8 |
4. Rockcastle County | 76.2 |
5. Wayne County | 70.6 |
6. Danville | 70.4 |
7. Lincoln County | 67.7 |
8. Pulaski County | 66.6 |
9. Somerset | 56.5 |
10. Garrard County | 52.9 |
11. Boyle County | 52.8 |
12. McCreary Central | 50.5 |
13. East Jessamine | 49.8 |
14. West Jessamine | 39.0 |
15. Danville Christian | 28.7 |
16. Burgin | 11.0 |
17. Ky. School for Deaf | 0.1 |
13TH REGION | |
1. South Laurel | 80.3 |
2. North Laurel | 75.9 |
3. Clay County | 63.5 |
4. Bell County | 62.8 |
5. Jackson County | 58.8 |
6. Harlan County | 58.3 |
7. Williamsburg | 56.6 |
8. Knox Central | 52.5 |
9. Corbin | 51.0 |
10. Whitley County | 49.9 |
11. Pineville | 48.9 |
12. Harlan | 38.4 |
13. Barbourville | 37.4 |
14. Middlesboro | 35.1 |
15. Red Bird | 28.7 |
16. Lynn Camp | 21.1 |
17. Oneida Baptist | 17.1 |
14TH REGION | |
1. Letcher Central | 67.6 |
2. Hazard | 62.7 |
3. Knott Central | 61.3 |
4. Perry Central | 58.3 |
5. Wolfe County | 57.1 |
6. Leslie County | 56.8 |
7. Owsley County | 56.5 |
8. Powell County | 43.0 |
9. Estill County | 40.2 |
10. Buckhorn | 33.7 |
11. Jackson City | 29.5 |
12. Breathitt County | 29.2 |
13. Riverside Christian | 21.2 |
14. June Buchanan | 18.3 |
15. Lee County | 16.3 |
16. Cordia | 0.8 |
15TH REGION | |
1. Pikeville | 72.9 |
2. Shelby Valley | 69.6 |
3. Floyd Central | 63.7 |
4. Belfry | 61.7 |
5. Pike Central | 57.3 |
6. Johnson Central | 56.9 |
7. Martin County | 56.7 |
8. Lawrence County | 53.8 |
9. Phelps | 49.7 |
10. East Ridge | 44.8 |
11. Paintsville | 43.9 |
12. Prestonsburg | 42.7 |
13. Betsy Layne | 38.0 |
14. Jenkins | 35.7 |
15. Magoffin County | 33.7 |
16TH REGION | |
1. Boyd County | 80.4 |
2. Ashland Blazer | 78.3 |
3. Russell | 77.7 |
4. West Carter | 70.4 |
5. Rowan County | 67.5 |
6. East Carter | 63.4 |
7. Lewis County | 54.3 |
8. Fleming County | 50.8 |
9. Menifee County | 50.0 |
10. Morgan County | 49.9 |
11. Fairview | 48.4 |
12. Elliott County | 46.0 |
13. Raceland | 44.6 |
14. Bath County | 42.1 |
15. Greenup County | 40.9 |
16. Rose Hill Christian | 21.9 |
This story was originally published January 26, 2020 at 6:16 PM.