Illinois Preps Insider’s girls basketball top-20: Week 9
Well at least the top-5 haven’t changed in weeks, right?
Tough week for Ignatius, and just a really strange week for New Trier. They knock off Iggy and follow it up with a loss to Maine South. It really shows how close teams 9-30 really are.
I really, really, want to believe in Bolingbrook but at a certain point you have to win games and losses to York and Lincoln-Way East are just games you have to win to stay ranked.
There are a lot of teams with pretty remarkable records who aren’t ranked. Minooka and Argo just to name a few. But as I said at the start of the season, I like to see quality wins while avoiding bad losses, and those teams don’t really have any standout wins.
1. Maine West 1 (23-0) 1
Fifth straight week at number one
2. Nazareth (21-1) 2
Grinded out a few wins this week
3. Montini (23-3) 3
Some impressive defensive performances
4. Mother McAuley (20-2) 4
So long as they don’t play Montini they’re fine
5. Benet (19-4) 5
But of a break in the schedule
6. Whitney Young (17-5) 6
More out of state games
7. Fremd (20-3) 8
Big game against Loyola
8. Simeon 9 (16-7)
CPS Playoffs have begun
9. Thornwood (20-1) 10
Swept Lincoln-Way West
10. New Trier (18-5) 11
Weird week, beat Iggy and Wheaton North but lose to Maine South
11. St. Ignatius (17-6) 7
Rough week for the Wolfpack
12. Loyola (18-5) 13
Solid win over Fenwick
13. Evanston (17-6) 14
Tough game against an improve Maine South next
14. Marist (16-7) 12
Been keeping games close, can’t get over the hump
15. Kenwood (15-9) 15
Hung with Maine West for a quarter
16. Fenwick (17-7) 16
Struggles in conference continue
17. Lincoln-Way East (15-5) NR
Quietly building a nice resume
18. Lincoln-Way West (16-4) 19
Close loss to Thornwood not the end of the world
19. Maine South (16-7) NR
Putting it together at the right time
20. Stagg (18-4) NR
Will get a chance to solidify their spot over the next two weeks
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