Illinois Preps Insider’s Girls basketball top-20: 2019-20 week 10

Usually this is the place reserved for short, quippy, paragraphs that explain what happened during the past week to change up the rankings.

I’m not going to lie to you, I just don’t have the emotional or creativity energy to come up with such paragraphs right now.

I never met Kobe Bryant and his family, I’m not a father, hell I’m not even a Lakers fan. But for whatever reason, the news of his death this morning hit me harder than I ever could have imagined. I guess that may just be a byproduct of being a sports fan growing up in the 90s and 00s.

This one will sting the sporting world for a while, but nevertheless there is a job to do and life always moves on. And I like to think if they ever read this site, It’s what Kobe and Gigi would have wanted.

Here are this weeks rankings.

1. Evanston (19-2) 1

Couple of big matchups on the horizon

2. Benet (21-2) 2

Marist right on their heels in conference

3. Montini (22-4) 3

Another split out of state

4. Simeon (22-2) 5

Awesome road win over Maine West

5. Maine West (20-3) 4

Regrouped against Lake Zurich

6. Marist (21-3) 7

Schedule doesn’t let up

7. Lincoln-Way West (21-2) 8

Evanston and Montini looming

8. Libertyville (18-4) 11

Haven’t lost in 2020

9. Kenwood (20-5) 9

Lull before the Public League playoffs

10. Homewood-Flossmoor (18-5) 12

Nice win over the Brook

11. Hersey (20-6) 12

Conference rematch against Buffalo Grove

12. Bolingbrook (17-6) 10

Will have another crack at HF later

13. Fremd (17-6) 14

Back to winning ways

14. Whitney Young (18-6) 15

Done until the postseason

15. Maine South (20-5) 16

Tough game against vastly improved New Trier

16. Stevenson (20-6) 18

NSC title still a possibility

17. Grayslake Central (19-3) 17

Another player in 3A

18. Geneva (17-5) 19

Saved their place in the rankings

19. York (20-5) NR

Back in the top-20

20. Downers Grove North (21-5) NR

The ultimate rankings yo-yo team