Illinois girls basketball state rankings: QND only area team remaining in top 10

QND’s Tristan Pieper (15) shoots the ball during the Raiders game against the Palmyra Panthers, Tuesday in Palmyra.  Mathew Kirby (Herald WhigCourier Post)

Quincy Notre Dame junior forward Tristan Pieper and the Raiders are ranked No. 6 in Class 3A in the latest Associated Press state basketball polls.

CHICAGO — Here are the latest Association Press girls basketball state rankings, as voted on by a panel of sportswriters and sportscasters from throughout the state. First-place votes are in parenthesis:

Class 4A

RankSchoolTotal PointsPrevious
1.Lyons (6) (11-0)601
2.Benet (9-1)512
3.Kenwood (11-1)408
4.Waubonsie Valley (10-1)34T3
5.Fremd (10-2)2910
6.St. Charles North (11-1)229
7.Whitney Young (5-4)19T3
8.Alton (8-1)18NR
(tie)Loyola (7-2)186
10.Huntley (10-0)14NR
(tie)Nazareth (8-2)145

Others receiving votes: 12, Lockport 3. 13, Prospect 3. 14, Normal Community 2. 15, Batavia 2. 16, Maine South 1.

Class 3A

RankSchoolTotal PointsPrevious
1.Dixon (1) (11-0)592 
(tie)Washington (5) (12-0)591 
3.Mount Vernon (9-1)474 
4.Bethalto Civic Memorial (10-0)453 
5.St. Ignatius (1) (9-1)427 
6.Quincy Notre Dame (7-0)385 
7.Galesburg (10-1)277 
8.Montini (8-3)178 
(tie)Morton (8-1)179 
10.Chicago Heights Marian Catholic (9-1)14NR 

Others receiving votes: 11, Sterling 9. 12, Kankakee 6. 13, Morris 2. 14, St. Viator 2. 15, Ottawa 1.

Class 2A

RankSchoolTotal PointsPrevious
1.Breese Central (5) (8-0)672
2.Nashville (1) (7-1)551
3.Stillman Valley (11-0)446
4.Carlyle (8-0)435
5.Teutopolis (9-2)373
6.Peoria Notre Dame (1) (8-3)314
7.Vienna (9-0)19NR
8.Bishop McNamara (9-2)187
9.Watseka (10-1)139
10.Rock Island Alleman (9-2)11NR

Others receiving votes: 11, Byron 10. 12, Mt. Carmel 9. 13, Sherrard 9. 14, Breese Mater Dei 8. 15, Central Southeastern 6. 16, Sullivan 5.

Class 1A

RankSchoolTotal PointsPrevious
1.Effingham St. Anthony (3) (10-1)572
2.Okawville (2) (6-2)421
3.Abingdon (A.-Avon) (10-2)303
(tie)Cissna Park (9-2)304
5.Orangeville (11-1)259
(tie)Brownstown/St. Elmo (11-2)257
7.Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley (1) (8-0)24NR
8.Pecatonica (11-1)22NR
9.Chicago Morgan Park Academy (8-0)188
10.Hardin Calhoun (0-2)175

Others receiving votes: 11, Catlin (Salt Fork) 12. 12, Roanoke-Benson 8. 13, Serena 6. 14, Rockford Lutheran 5. 15, Galena 3. 16, Monmouth United 3. 17, Illini Bluffs 2. 18, St. Edward 1.

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