Hoops rankings: Wheeler, Tift stumble; Westlake tops 6A

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In Class AAAAAA, No. 1 Wheeler dropped to No. 3 after suffering a 48-41 loss to Milton on Saturday. No. 2 Tift County was handled by Valdosta 65-51 and slid down to No. 4 after the loss. Westlake (24-2) reclaims No. 1 in Class AAAAAA and bounced back from its only in-state loss of the season last week (76-75 to Tri-Cities) with wins over East Coweta, Hughes and Newnan. Milton moved up two spots to No. 7 after the win over Wheeler and a 68-63 loss to No. 6 Walton earlier last week. Hillgrove dropped two losses in region play to Pebblebrook (48-42) and Kennesaw Mountain (73-70) and exited this week’s poll. Pebblebrook (19-5) debuts in the poll at No. 8.

In Class AAAAA, Stephenson moves into the top 5 with its 45-42 win over Tucker and Heritage-Conyers makes its debut at No. 10. The Patriots replaced Villa Rica, who lost consecutive games to South Paulding and New Manchester.

Columbia remains No. 1 in Class AAAA, but Alexander is the new No. 2 after South Atlanta’s 68-56 loss to Grady this weekend. Rutland dropped out of the top 10 after its 78-65 loss to West Laurens and Riverdale makes its debut at No. 10.

In Class AAA, St. Pius X moved up two spots to No. 7 after a 63-61 win over Blessed Trinity. Cedar Grove replaces Woodward Academy at No. 10 after beating the War Eagles 49-41 this weekend.

No. 10 Taylor County topped No. 9 Crawford County this week 77-69 and moves up to No. 9 in this week’s poll. Crawford County was bumped out of the top 10 and was replaced by Northeast-Macon.

In Class A, North Cobb Christian dropped one spot to No. 5 after a 67-62 loss to No. 3 St. Francis. Landmark Christian moved up into the No. 4 spot with an impressive win 83-75 win over Mount Vernon. Randolph-Clay fell out of the top 10 after its 64-53 loss to Calhoun County and was replaced by Athens Christian, who debuts at No. 9.

 

Class AAAAA

1. Westlake

2. Norcross

3. Wheeler

4. Tift County

5. North Gwinnett

6. Walton

7. Milton

8. Pebblebrook

9. Douglas County

10. McEachern

 

Class AAAAA

1. Allatoona

2. Miller Grove

3. Jenkins

4. Sprayberry

5. Stephenson

6. Clarke Central

7. Tucker

8. Warner Robins

9. Drew

10. Heritage-Conyers

 

Class AAAA

1. Columbia

2. Alexander

3. Eagle’s Landing

4. South Atlanta

5. Fayette County

6. Eastside

7. Glenn Hills

8. Statesboro

9. Westover

10. Riverdale

 

Class AAA

1. Johnson-Savannah

2. Savannah

3. Cartersville

4. Washington County

5. Buford

6. Morgan County

7. St. Pius X

8. Elbert County

9. Blessed Trinity

10. Cedar Grove

 

Class AA

1. Greater Atlanta Christian

2. Vidalia

3. Laney

4. Manchester

5. Calhoun

6. Model

7. Jefferson

8. Pelham

9. Taylor County

10. Northeast-Macon

 

Class A

1. Whitefield Academy

2. Greenforest Christian

3. St. Francis

4. Landmark Christian

5. North Cobb Christian

6. Aquinas

7. Mount Vernon Presbyterian

8. Calhoun County

9. Athens Christian

10. Holy Innocents’

 

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2 Responses to “Hoops rankings: Wheeler, Tift stumble; Westlake tops 6A”

  1. Andre Elam
    February 10, 2014 at 9:28 am #

    ScoreAtlanta you have the ranking correct for AAAAAA Boy’s. Westlake is clearly the best team in the state this year. Having 4/5 Stars players doesn’t make you the best team. Who would have thought Westlake would get better by subtraction on Tony Bagtas, Andre’ Elam and KeJuan Johnson. A team will win every time over individual play. Go Lions!

  2. Portal Fan
    February 10, 2014 at 11:37 am #

    Can we get a little love for Portal, and honorable mention or something. We were in the final 4 last year, only lost 3 players from that team and replaced those 3 players with 3 guys 6-2 and up. We beat the defending state champs twice, beat Worth County who split with your 9.Westover, avenged both single A losses we had which means we have beaten every single A team we’ve played, number 1 in the Power Rankings, MaxPreps has us 7th and AJC has us 9th. Well it’s too late now because region tournaments are here and state is next week so recognition doesn’t mean much now but I guess we’ll see you in the final rankings.

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