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TrueRank™ National Prep Basketball Rankings Week 15

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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TrueRank™ National Prep Basketball Rankings Week 9

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.

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TrueRank™ National Prep Basketball Rankings Week 8

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

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.

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TrueRank™ National Combined Prep Basketball Rankings – Week 6 (beta)

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	3	26.667
2.	Findlay Prep	Henderson, NV	2	2	2	25.000
3.	Huntington Prep	Huntington,WV	1	4	3	23.000
4.	Mater Dei HS	Santa Ana, CA	4	6	3	19.667
5.	St. Benedict Prep	Newark,NJ	4	7	3	18.000
6.	Desoto HS	Dallas, TX	3	8	3	17.333
7.	Poly HS	Long Beach, CA	7	8	3	15.333
8.	Loyola High School	Los Angeles, CA	5	5	1	14.000
9.	Whitney Young	Chicago IL	8	9	3	13.667
10.	La Lumiere School	La Porte, IN	6	9	2	12.500
11.	Oak Hill Academy	Mouth of Wilson, VA	9	10	3	12.000
12.	North Little Rock HS	Little Rock, AR	6	6	1	11.000
13.	St. Anthony HS	Jersey City, NJ	7	15	3	6.333
14.	Simeon HS	Chicago, IL	9	12	2	6.000
15.	Chester HS	Chester, PA	11	17	3	2.333
16.	Neumann Goretti HS	Philadelphia, PA	14	18	3	-0.333
17.	Montrose Christian	Rockville, MD	12	12	1	-7.000
18.	St. John Bosco	Los Angeles, CA	18	19	2	-8.500
19.	West Charlotte HS	Charlotte, NC	21	25	2	-19.000
20.	Christ Presbyterian Academy	Nashville, TN	21	21	1	-34.000
21.	Salesian HS	Richmond, CA	21	21	1	-34.000
22.	Gonzaga HS	Washington, DC	23	23	1	-40.000
23.	White Station HS	Memphis, TN	24	24	1	-43.000
24.	Bishop Gorman HS	Las Vegas NV	24	24	1	-43.000
25.	Travis HS	Austin, TX	27	27	1	-53.000

This week we introduce the inaugural TrueRank™ National Combined Prep Basketball Rankings. The polls used in determining this TrueRank score were released during the period of 12/24/2012 to 12/30/2012. Polls published and used in this period’s calculation were from PrepNation, Hoopniks and MaxPreps. There was no national poll during this period from USA Today.

Notes: There is very little difference between #1 Monteverde Academy and #2 Findlay Prep on the national polling scene, but Findlay is not ranked in the MaxPreps Top 25 poll, which gives the edge to Monteverde. Is this an oversight on the part of MaxPreps or a statement? Hard to say – but at this point, they are having a strong enough ranking and season to still put them into the conversation.

West Charlotte continues to have a strong season and have found their way into more than one of the top 25 rankings. Chester HS also lands on several rankings, although the specific ranking for them varies pretty widely.

Wesleyan has dropped off of the national scene again after dropping two key games, one of which was to St. John Bosco who comes in at #18.

Why I made this poll: This poll is an attempt to consolidate all of the various rankings into a realistic snapshot of the top teams. I’ve noticed that with several different polls available, and with several thousand high school teams in the nation, many polls will vary greatly in which teams are ranked. This isn’t a statement about accuracy of a particular poll, just looking for an accurate consensus. Without a national playoff and tournament, the reality is that there isn’t a solid way to ultimately determine where teams fall.

My plan is calculate these rankings each week, as long as there is more than one poll available. I will likely adjust the formula/frequency of calculation depending on available data. At this point, there is no input from me or Basketball Elite into the rankings beyond the calculation. That means, we don’t adjust the data in any way or input our own poll. This is strictly calculated based on existing, published data.

Right now I am not including won-loss record in our calculation; this is because the individual polls should be already reflecting that. If in the future I may add in a SOS calculation, and if so, won-loss would possibly be included then.

This is a bit of an experiment; the national polls are not released at the same time so I won’t be able to release the cumulative results until I have more than one poll; however, I may add in a rolling average and soon I should also have historic polls available, as well as trends, etc.

The other thing about this initial poll is that there will likely be greater fluctuation in the 20-25 range due to the fact that several polls differ here. However, the TrueRank™ calculation is based on all teams which were ranked at all during a period.

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