Cantrall’s ratings: Ryle girls still No. 1, but rest of top 10 changes (March 7)
Ryle went 3-0 last week to maintain its hold on the No. 1 spot in Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State for girls’ high school basketball in Kentucky. Ryle’s victories included a 62-58 decision at Bethlehem, now ranked third.
Bethlehem finished off its week by defeating Crittenden County and then Walton-Verona to win the All “A” Classic championship.
Anderson County, which previously was No. 1 for most of the season, moved up from fifth to second after blowout victories against Great Crossing and North Oldham.
Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State
| GIRLS’ TOP 25 | Rating | LW |
| 1. Ryle (19-2) | 86.4 | 1 |
| 2. Anderson County (21-2) | 85.7 | 5 |
| 3. Bethlehem (20-4) | 84.5 | 4 |
| 4. Dixie Heights (20-2) | 84.2 | 2 |
| 4. Bullitt East (17-2) | 84.2 | 8 |
| 6. Marshall County (18-2) | 83.9 | 3 |
| 7. Butler (7-1) | 83.4 | t10 |
| 8. Notre Dame (15-4) | 83.0 | t10 |
| 9. Boyd County (11-1) | 82.5 | 12 |
| 9. Southwestern (16-3) | 82.5 | t13 |
| 11. Sacred Heart (17-6) | 82.1 | 7 |
| 12. Henderson County (12-4) | 81.9 | 15 |
| 13. Central (9-0) | 81.5 | t13 |
| 14. Bardstown (17-5) | 81.0 | 6 |
| 15. Elizabethtown (20-0) | 80.9 | 9 |
| 15. Highlands (16-5) | 80.9 | 19 |
| 17. Cooper (15-3) | 80.8 | 16 |
| 18. North Laurel (19-4) | 80.6 | 17 |
| 19. Russell (13-5) | 80.5 | 20 |
| 20. Male (7-2) | 78.8 | 22 |
| 20. Danville (13-5) | 78.8 | 18 |
| 22. Bowling Green (11-10) | 78.7 | NR |
| 23. Manual (5-3) | 78.4 | 24 |
| 24. Christian Academy-Louisville (16-7) | 78.1 | 23 |
| 24. Walton-Verona (15-7) | 78.1 | NR |
Girls’ ratings by region
| 1ST REGION | |
| 1. Marshall County | 83.9 |
| 2. Graves County | 75.5 |
| 3. McCracken County | 69.1 |
| 4. Calloway County | 54.6 |
| 5. Mayfield | 53.8 |
| 6. Murray | 53.3 |
| 7. Hickman County | 50.6 |
| 8. Paducah Tilghman | 49.8 |
| 9. Carlisle County | 41.7 |
| 10. Christian Fellowship | 33.8 |
| 11. Ballard Memorial | 33.7 |
| 12. Community Christian | 28.3 |
| 13. Fulton County | 19.4 |
| 14. Fulton City | 19.2 |
| 15. St. Mary | 5.3 |
| 2ND REGION | |
| 1. Henderson County | 81.9 |
| 2. Webster County | 68.9 |
| 3. Union County | 59.6 |
| 4. Crittenden County | 56.2 |
| 5. Lyon County | 54.0 |
| 6. Hopkins Central | 52.4 |
| 7. Madisonville | 51.0 |
| 8. Christian County | 50.5 |
| 9. Caldwell County | 50.3 |
| 10. Trigg County | 49.3 |
| 11. Hopkinsville | 48.9 |
| 12. Livingston Central | 30.7 |
| 13. Dawson Springs | 22.5 |
| 14. University Heights | 20.0 |
| 3RD REGION | |
| 1. Breckinridge County | 77.0 |
| 2. Meade County | 73.0 |
| 3. Owensboro Catholic | 72.2 |
| 4. Apollo | 71.7 |
| 5. McLean County | 59.8 |
| 6. Hancock County | 58.2 |
| 7. Owensboro | 56.3 |
| 8. Ohio County | 56.0 |
| 9. Grayson County | 55.6 |
| 10. Daviess County | 53.5 |
| 11. Muhlenberg County | 48.8 |
| 12. Edmonson County | 47.9 |
| 13. Butler County | 44.5 |
| 14. Whitesville Trinity | 40.0 |
| 15. Cloverport | 28.3 |
| 4TH REGION | |
| 1. Bowling Green | 78.7 |
| 2. Warren Central | 62.6 |
| 3. Barren County | 61.1 |
| 4. Russell County | 60.9 |
| 5. Greenwood | 60.0 |
| 6. South Warren | 56.7 |
| 7. Metcalfe County | 56.2 |
| 8. Franklin-Simpson | 52.7 |
| 9. Warren East | 50.6 |
| 10. Monroe County | 50.1 |
| 11. Clinton County | 49.7 |
| 11. Glasgow | 49.7 |
| 13. Allen County-Scottsville | 46.9 |
| 13. Russellville | 46.9 |
| 15. Logan County | 42.2 |
| 16. Cumberland County | 39.0 |
| 17. Todd Central | 36.1 |
| 5TH REGION | |
| 1. Bethlehem | 84.5 |
| 2. Bardstown | 81.0 |
| 3. Elizabethtown | 80.9 |
| 4. Central Hardin | 69.9 |
| 5. Green County | 64.1 |
| 6. Nelson County | 63.5 |
| 7. Campbellsville | 62.7 |
| 8. Hart County | 60.4 |
| 9. Marion County | 57.5 |
| 10. John Hardin | 57.4 |
| 11. LaRue County | 52.8 |
| 12. North Hardin | 52.2 |
| 13. Taylor County | 49.7 |
| 14. Thomas Nelson | 46.3 |
| 15. Adair County | 39.0 |
| 16. Caverna | 37.4 |
| 17. Washington County | 19.9 |
| 6TH REGION | |
| 1. Bullitt East | 84.2 |
| 2. Butler | 83.4 |
| 3. Mercy | 77.1 |
| 4. Pleasure Ridge Park | 60.1 |
| 5. Bullitt Central | 53.8 |
| 6. Whitefield Academy | 48.7 |
| 7. Lou. Holy Cross | 43.9 |
| 8. North Bullitt | 43.1 |
| 9. Iroquois | 32.1 |
| 10. Fern Creek | 30.0 |
| 11. Moore | 28.5 |
| 12. Western | 19.1 |
| 13. Fairdale | 17.1 |
| 14. Valley | 5.5 |
| 15. Jeffersontown | 3.8 |
| 16. Beth Haven | 0.2 |
| 17. Southern | 0.1 |
| 7TH REGION | |
| 1. Sacred Heart | 82.1 |
| 2. Central | 81.5 |
| 3. Male | 78.8 |
| 4. Manual | 78.4 |
| 5. Christian Academy-Louisville | 78.1 |
| 6. Assumption | 69.0 |
| 7. Eastern | 50.2 |
| 8. Presentation | 44.7 |
| 9. Ballard | 39.0 |
| 10. Collegiate | 38.4 |
| 11. Portland Christian | 29.5 |
| 12. Kentucky Country Day | 23.2 |
| 13. Brown | 21.2 |
| 14. Shawnee | 18.0 |
| 15. Atherton | 16.6 |
| 15. St. Francis | 16.6 |
| 17. Seneca | 10.6 |
| 18. Highlands Latin | 2.7 |
| 8TH REGION | |
| 1. Anderson County | 85.7 |
| 2. Walton-Verona | 78.1 |
| 3. Owen County | 72.8 |
| 4. Spencer County | 71.3 |
| 5. South Oldham | 70.0 |
| 6. Shelby County | 65.1 |
| 7. Oldham County | 57.0 |
| 8. Grant County | 56.4 |
| 9. North Oldham | 56.2 |
| 10. Simon Kenton | 55.3 |
| 11. Eminence | 54.1 |
| 12. Woodford County | 47.1 |
| 13. Trimble County | 46.6 |
| 14. Collins | 46.0 |
| 15. Williamstown | 40.1 |
| 16. Carroll County | 39.9 |
| 17. Henry County | 38.5 |
| 18. Gallatin County | 26.0 |
| 9TH REGION | |
| 1. Ryle | 86.4 |
| 2. Dixie Heights | 84.2 |
| 3. Notre Dame | 83.0 |
| 4. Highlands | 80.9 |
| 5. Cooper | 80.8 |
| 6. Covington Holy Cross | 74.0 |
| 7. Newport Catholic | 68.4 |
| 8. Boone County | 67.4 |
| 9. Conner | 64.6 |
| 10. Ludlow | 58.2 |
| 11. St. Henry | 52.0 |
| 12. Holmes | 48.9 |
| 13. Beechwood | 48.0 |
| 14. Lloyd | 47.2 |
| 15. Bellevue | 26.8 |
| 16. Villa Madonna | 25.2 |
| 17. Newport | 21.0 |
| 18. Dayton | 20.6 |
| 19. Covington Latin | 0.1 |
| 10TH REGION | |
| 1. Clark County | 77.5 |
| 2. Bishop Brossart | 75.9 |
| 3. Scott | 71.1 |
| 4. Paris | 66.5 |
| 5. Montgomery County | 64.8 |
| 6. Campbell County | 62.5 |
| 7. Mason County | 56.7 |
| 8. Bourbon County | 55.9 |
| 9. Harrison County | 52.0 |
| 10. Nicholas County | 44.3 |
| 11. Pendleton County | 42.7 |
| 12. St. Patrick | 34.1 |
| 13. Bracken County | 32.5 |
| 14. Augusta | 29.4 |
| 15. Robertson County | 26.5 |
| 11TH REGION | |
| 1. Franklin County | 74.7 |
| 2. Paul Laurence Dunbar | 72.1 |
| 3. Lafayette | 66.6 |
| 4. Great Crossing | 66.4 |
| 5. Madison Southern | 65.7 |
| 6. Scott County | 62.0 |
| 7. Lexington Catholic | 60.3 |
| 8. Tates Creek | 57.4 |
| 9. Berea | 56.5 |
| 10. Frederick Douglass | 52.5 |
| 11. Madison Central | 51.3 |
| 12. Lexington Christian | 46.0 |
| 13. Bryan Station | 43.7 |
| 14. Model | 41.9 |
| 15. Henry Clay | 41.4 |
| 16. Frankfort | 41.1 |
| 17. Sayre | 39.8 |
| 18. Trinity Christian | 17.2 |
| 19. Frankfort Christian | 14.2 |
| 20. Western Hills | 13.3 |
| 12TH REGION | |
| 1. Southwestern | 82.5 |
| 2. Danville | 78.8 |
| 3. Wayne County | 75.6 |
| 4. Mercer County | 74.2 |
| 5. Pulaski County | 73.9 |
| 6. Rockcastle County | 67.6 |
| 7. Somerset | 66.3 |
| 8. Boyle County | 53.4 |
| 9. Casey County | 52.7 |
| 10. Lincoln County | 51.5 |
| 11. McCreary Central | 50.0 |
| 12. East Jessamine | 45.1 |
| 13. Garrard County | 41.8 |
| 14. Danville Christian | 39.8 |
| 15. West Jessamine | 37.0 |
| 16. Burgin | 11.9 |
| 13TH REGION | |
| 1. North Laurel | 80.6 |
| 2. South Laurel | 71.8 |
| 3. Corbin | 65.7 |
| 4. Bell County | 65.5 |
| 5. Whitley County | 61.1 |
| 6. Jackson County | 59.4 |
| 7. Knox Central | 57.4 |
| 8. Pineville | 56.4 |
| 9. Clay County | 53.5 |
| 10. Harlan County | 50.9 |
| 11. Harlan | 45.2 |
| 12. Williamsburg | 43.4 |
| 13. Middlesboro | 41.3 |
| 14. Red Bird | 33.6 |
| 15. Lynn Camp | 28.9 |
| 16. Barbourville | 23.7 |
| 14TH REGION | |
| 1. Knott Central | 63.4 |
| 2. Owsley County | 62.2 |
| 3. Leslie County | 60.4 |
| 4. Letcher Central | 59.1 |
| 5. Perry Central | 56.1 |
| 6. Powell County | 52.5 |
| 7. Wolfe County | 50.6 |
| 8. Estill County | 48.7 |
| 9. Hazard | 42.1 |
| 10. Breathitt County | 37.7 |
| 11. Buckhorn | 35.8 |
| 12. Jackson City | 23.6 |
| 13. Lee County | 21.2 |
| 14. June Buchanan | 9.2 |
| 15. Cordia | 3.2 |
| 15TH REGION | |
| 1. Pikeville | 77.5 |
| 2. Shelby Valley | 72.0 |
| 3. Johnson Central | 68.5 |
| 4. Floyd Central | 68.0 |
| 5. Belfry | 66.8 |
| 6. Lawrence County | 61.2 |
| 7. Paintsville | 58.5 |
| 8. Martin County | 55.0 |
| 9. Betsy Layne | 47.0 |
| 10. Prestonsburg | 45.5 |
| 11. Jenkins | 44.2 |
| 12. Pike Central | 34.7 |
| 13. East Ridge | 28.1 |
| 14. Magoffin County | 23.2 |
| 15. Phelps | 20.4 |
| 16TH REGION | |
| 1. Boyd County | 82.5 |
| 2. Russell | 80.5 |
| 3. Ashland Blazer | 72.4 |
| 4. Rowan County | 68.3 |
| 5. West Carter | 64.7 |
| 6. Lewis County | 56.7 |
| 7. Morgan County | 54.8 |
| 8. Menifee County | 54.1 |
| 9. East Carter | 53.8 |
| 10. Rose Hill Christian | 48.9 |
| 11. Elliott County | 47.2 |
| 12. Fleming County | 44.9 |
| 13. Raceland | 44.7 |
| 14. Greenup County | 43.3 |
| 15. Bath County | 38.6 |
| 16. Fairview | 17.6 |