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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