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Calvin Hermanson and Lake Oswego HS (OR) have gotten respect as the season has progressed.

By Marcus Shockley

This national high school basketball ranking combines multiple available polls for a period of time into a single poll, and creates a ranking for each team based on their average ranking, number of times they are ranked in the various polls, the highest ranking that teams has in those polls and the position ranking out of all ranked teams for the period. Read more about today’s cumulative ranking below.

School Location High AVG Qty TrueRank™
1. Findlay Prep Henderson,NV 1 1 4 33.500
2. Montverde Academy Montverde,FL 2 2 4 32.000
3. Lone Peak HS West Highland,UT 3 3 4 30.500
4. Prime Prep Academy Dallas,TX 4 5 4 27.000
5. St. Benedict Prep Newark,NJ 4 5 4 27.000
6. Whitney Young Magnet HS Chicago,IL 4 7 4 24.750
7. Huntington Prep Huntington,WV 6 8 4 22.750
8. St. Anthony HS Jersey City,NJ 5 9 4 22.250
9. Simeon HS Chicago,IL 5 9 4 22.250
10. Poly HS Long Beach,CA 5 9 4 22.000
11. Mater Dei HS Santa Ana,CA 6 11 4 19.500
12. Bishop Montgomery Torrance,CA 8 11 4 19.000
13. Desoto HS Dallas,TX 9 12 4 17.750
14. Lake Oswego HS Lake Oswego,OR 10 13 4 15.750
15. La Lumiere School La Porte,IN 10 14 4 14.750
16. Iowa City West HS Iowa City,IA 13 15 4 12.750
17. Pershing HS Detroit,MI 13 18 4 9.000
18. Germantown HS Germantown,WI 15 18 4 8.000
19. Blanche Ely HS Pompano Beach,FL 18 19 4 6.500
20. Gonzaga HS Washington,DC 12 20 3 3.667
21. Bishop Gorman HS Las Vegas,NV 18 22 4 3.000
22. Chester HS Chester,PA 22 22 4 1.250
23. Olympic HS Charlotte,NC 17 18 2 -0.500
24. Oak Hill Academy Mouth of Wilson,VA 22 24 3 -4.667
25. Blue Valley Northwest HS Overland Park,KS 19 21 2 -6.000
26. Irmo Columbia,SC 21 22 2 -9.000
27. Northland HS Columbus,OH 22 23 2 -11.000
28. Midwest City HS Midwest City,OK 17 17 1 -16.000
29. Morgan Park HS Chicago,IL 25 27 2 -18.500
30. Miller Grove HS Lithonia,GA 21 21 1 -28.000

Notes:
The polls seem to have settled on their own opinions for Prime Prep and Huntington; some have ranked Prime as high as #4 while others still maintain them slightly lower. Huntington has dropped in all but one of the polls (USA Today). Oak Hill continues to cling to a tenuous grasp on being ranked, and no team has seen more wild swings in rankings this year than Simeon. One sleeper that’s found it’s way up in the rankings after not being ranked at the beginning of the year is Lake Oswego, ranked as high as #10 in one poll.

This week’s poll includes four sources: Hoopniks, ESPN, USA Today and PrepNation. MaxPreps also released polls during this period but I haven’t included them, due to the fact that they segment private academies from public high schools. I am not sure how, or if, I will incorporate their rankings back into the cumulative rankings.

Finally: In the poll listing, the ‘high’ value represents the highest ranking in any poll that team received during the ranking period.
‘Qty’ represents how many polls they were ranked in. ‘AVG’ represents their average ranking in all polls where they were ranked.

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Nigel Williams-Goss and Findlay Prep overtake #1 in the rankings. Photo Source: PrepForce

By Marcus Shockley

This national high school basketball ranking combines multiple available polls for a period of time into a single poll, and creates a ranking for each team based on their average ranking, number of times they are ranked in the various polls, the highest ranking that teams has in those polls and the position ranking out of all ranked teams for the period. Read more about today’s cumulative ranking below.

School Location High AVG Qty TrueRank™
1. Findlay Prep Henderson,NV 1 1 4 34.250
2. Whitney Young Magnet HS Chicago,IL 1 3 4 31.750
3. Montverde Academy Montverde,FL 2 3 4 31.500
4. Lone Peak HS West Highland,UT 3 4 4 30.000
5. St. Benedict Prep Newark,NJ 2 6 4 28.000
6. La Lumiere School La Porte,IN 3 6 4 27.500
7. Prime Prep Academy Dallas,TX 5 9 4 23.500
8. Mater Dei HS Santa Ana,CA 4 9 4 23.250
9. St. Anthony HS Jersey City,NJ 6 9 4 23.250
10. Desoto HS Dallas,TX 7 9 4 22.250
11. Simeon HS Chicago,IL 10 11 4 19.500
12. Poly HS Long Beach,CA 9 11 4 19.250
13. Huntington Prep Huntington,WV 9 12 4 18.500
14. Oak Hill Academy Mouth of Wilson,VA 10 12 4 18.250
15. Bishop Montgomery Torrance,CA 14 14 4 14.250
16. Omaha Central HS Omaha,NE 11 14 3 13.333
17. Lake Oswego HS Lake Oswego,OR 13 16 4 12.000
18. Iowa City West HS Iowa City,IA 15 16 4 11.750
19. Pershing HS Detroit,MI 17 21 4 4.750
20. Blanche Ely HS Pompano Beach,FL 19 21 4 4.500
21. Paul VI HS Fairfax,VA 19 20 3 2.667
22. Midwest City HS Midwest City,OK 16 23 3 -0.333
23. Germantown HS Germantown,WI 21 22 3 -0.667
24. St. John Bosco Los Angeles,CA 21 23 3 -1.667
25. Olympic HS Charlotte,NC 21 21 2 -6.000
26. Bishop Gorman HS Las Vegas,NV 19 22 2 -7.000
27. Columbia HS Decatur,GA 22 24 2 -11.500
28. Blue Valley Northwest HS Overland Park,KS 24 26 2 -15.500
29. Bishop O’Connell Arlington,VA 19 19 1 -21.000
30. Gonzaga HS Washington,DC 20 20 1 -24.000

Notes:
After running a close #2 all season, Findlay Prep gets two big events that pushed them into the #1 spot. Findlay beat previous #1 Montverde in a head to head match up at the Hoophall Classic, but Montverde had already dropped a game over the same weekend. Nigel Williams-Goss made his latest case to be included as an All-American in the win. Meanwhile, more shakeups down the rankings as several teams who had high initial rankings or scored big upsets early in the season stumble. Most curious is the case of Huntington Prep, which has lost 2 games but still ranked very high in some of the polls, or more specifically, ESPN. Olympic continues to climb in the national rankings and Paul VI continues to surge back up into several polls.

This week’s poll includes four sources: Hoopniks, ESPN, USA Today and PrepNation. MaxPreps also released polls during this period but I haven’t included them, due to the fact that they segment private academies from public high schools. I am not sure how, or if, I will incorporate their rankings back into the cumulative rankings.

Finally: In the poll listing, the ‘high’ value represents the highest ranking in any poll that team received during the ranking period.
‘Qty’ represents how many polls they were ranked in. ‘AVG’ represents their average ranking in all polls where they were ranked.

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TrueRank is ™ and © 2013 Neptune Media Group, LLC.

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Paul White, L.J. Peak and Whitney Young have hit the top 5 across several polls. Photo Source: MaxPreps

By Marcus Shockley

This national high school basketball ranking combines multiple available polls for a period of time into a single poll, and creates a ranking for each team based on their average ranking, number of times they are ranked in the various polls, the highest ranking that teams has in those polls and the average ranking. Read more about today’s cumulative ranking below.

School Location High AVG Qty TrueRank™
1. Montverde Academy Montverde,FL 1 1 4 34.250
2. Findlay Prep Henderson,NV 1 1 4 33.750
3. Lone Peak HS West Highland,UT 3 4 4 30.000
4. Whitney Young Magnet HS Chicago,IL 3 5 4 28.750
5. Mater Dei HS Santa Ana,CA 3 6 4 27.500
6. Poly HS Long Beach,CA 5 6 4 26.500
7. La Lumiere School La Porte,IN 4 8 4 24.750
8. Huntington Prep Huntington,WV 4 8 4 24.250
9. St. Benedict Prep Newark,NJ 5 9 4 23.500
10. Prime Prep Academy Dallas,TX 4 10 4 22.500
11. St. Anthony HS Jersey City,NJ 7 10 4 21.250
12. Oak Hill Academy Mouth of Wilson,VA 10 10 4 20.250
13. Desoto HS Dallas,TX 8 11 4 20.000
14. Simeon HS Chicago,IL 11 13 4 16.500
15. Omaha Central HS Omaha,NE 11 14 3 13.333
16. Bishop Montgomery Torrance,CA 15 15 4 12.750
17. Iowa City West HS Iowa City,IA 15 17 4 10.750
18. Lake Oswego HS Lake Oswego,OR 14 18 4 9.750
19. Southwind HS Memphis,TN 16 17 3 7.667
20. Bishop O’Connell Arlington,VA 18 20 3 3.333
21. Pershing HS Detroit,MI 18 22 3 0.333
22. Blanche Ely HS Pompano Beach,FL 22 22 3 -1.333
23. St. John Bosco Los Angeles,CA 21 23 3 -1.667
24. Germantown HS Germantown,WI 23 23 3 -3.000
25. Midwest City HS Midwest City,OK 17 23 2 -7.000
26. Bishop Gorman HS Las Vegas,NV 20 23 2 -9.000
27. Olympic HS Charlotte,NC 23 23 2 -10.500
28. Gonzaga HS Washington,DC 20 20 1 -24.000
29. Christ the King Middle Village,NY 20 20 1 -24.000
30. Thurgood Marshall HS Dayton,OH 22 22 1 -30.000

Notes: This week’s poll includes four sources: Hoopniks, ESPN, USA Today and PrepNation. MaxPreps also released polls during this period but I haven’t included them, due to the fact that they segment private academies from public high schools. I am not sure how, or if, I will incorporate their rankings back into the cumulative rankings.

The top two in the poll remain the same, although all polls have Montverde Academy at #1, with the exception of USA Today, which has Findlay Prep at the top spot. However, movement in the rest of the rankings, as polls vary widely on schools such as Prime Prep, Huntington Prep and St. Anthony. Once again I’m listing the top 30.

Finally: In the poll listing, the ‘high’ value represents the highest ranking in any poll that team received during the ranking period.
‘Qty’ represents how many polls they were ranked in. ‘AVG’ represents their average ranking in all polls where they were ranked.

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Nick Emery and Lone Peak are still hot. Photo Source: Naples News

By Marcus Shockley

This national high school basketball ranking combines multiple available polls for a period of time into a single poll, and creates a ranking for each team based on their average ranking, number of times they are ranked in the various polls, the highest ranking that teams has in those polls and the average ranking. Read more about today’s cumulative ranking below.

School Location High AVG Qty TrueRank™
1. Montverde Academy Montverde,FL 1 1 4 38.250
2. Findlay Prep Henderson,NV 1 1 4 37.750
3. Lone Peak HS West Highland,UT 3 4 4 34.250
4. Mater Dei HS Santa Ana,CA 3 6 4 31.000
5. Whitney Young Magnet HS Chicago,IL 3 6 4 31.000
6. Poly HS Long Beach,CA 5 6 4 30.750
7. St. Benedict Prep Newark,NJ 4 8 4 28.750
8. La Lumiere School La Porte,IN 4 8 4 28.500
9. Huntington Prep Huntington,WV 4 9 4 27.500
10. Prime Prep Academy Dallas,TX 4 10 4 26.250
11. St. Anthony HS Jersey City,NJ 7 10 4 25.500
12. Desoto HS Dallas,TX 7 10 4 25.000
13. Oak Hill Academy Mouth of Wilson,VA 10 11 4 23.750
14. Chester HS Chester,PA 9 15 4 18.500
15. Southwind HS Memphis,TN 13 15 4 17.500
16. Simeon HS Chicago,IL 11 15 3 16.333
17. Omaha Central HS Omaha,NE 12 16 3 14.333
18. St. John Bosco Los Angeles,CA 16 17 4 14.000
19. Iowa City West HS Iowa City,IA 17 19 4 12.000
20. Lake Oswego HS Lake Oswego,OR 14 21 4 9.750
21. Pike HS Indianapolis,IN 18 20 3 6.667
22. Pershing HS Detroit,MI 17 22 3 5.000
23. Bishop Montgomery Torrance,CA 16 23 2 -2.500
24. Bishop Gorman HS Las Vegas,NV 20 23 2 -4.500
25. Bishop O’Connell Arlington,VA 23 23 2 -6.500
26. Blanche Ely HS Pompano Beach,FL 23 24 2 -7.500
27. Putnam City HS Oklahoma City,OK 16 16 1 -8.000
28. Midwest City HS Midwest City,OK 17 17 1 -11.000
29. Olympic HS Charlotte,NC 24 26 2 -11.000
30. White Station HS Memphis,TN 20 20 1 -20.000

Notes: This week’s poll includes four sources: Hoopniks, ESPN, USA Today and PrepNation. MaxPreps also released polls during this period but I haven’t included them, due to the fact that they segment private academies from public high schools. I am not sure how, or if, I will incorporate their rankings back into the cumulative rankings.

Still not much change at the top of the poll, but a major loss by Huntington Prep this week pushed some significant movement, including dropping Prep from #3 to #9 and introducing Prime Prep, who dealt Huntington their loss, into the rankings at #10. The overall movement of the rankings is relatively consistent, but this week I’ve expanded the list to show the Top 30 True Rank teams just because, well, I have the data and I think it’s interesting. Note that two NC teams, Olympic and West Charlotte, do appear on a few polls but only Olympic has a high enough value to land in the cumulative rankings.

Finally: In the poll listing, the ‘high’ value represents the highest ranking in any poll that team received during the ranking period.
‘Qty’ represents how many polls they were ranked in. ‘AVG’ represents their average ranking in all polls where they were ranked.

Want to know more? You can follow Marcus Shockley on Twitter.

TrueRank is ™ and © 2013 Neptune Media Group, LLC.