Illinois Preps Insider’s girls basketball top-20: March 7

Things that were written before that Maine South vs. Simeon game, “Okay, I feel like I have a bit more of a handle on things this week.”

Maine South is one heck of a basketball team, they’ve been in or around the top-10 all year and should probably be in the AP top-10 for 4A. I actually had them a little lower but the Simeon game bumped them up

Anyways, back to business. Libertyville and Lyons were the two biggest winners. Both have been rolling after a tough opening week of the season and have made significant strides.

Naperville North continues to be a quiet climber, taking care of the games they should win, en route to an undefeated conference season.

The Catholic League keeps beating up on each other, and Fenwick’s yo-yo ways knock them out for the time being. Just hard to justify a .500 team this late in the season being in the top-20.

Burlington Central also drops out, just not a great time to lose to a sub-.500 team.

Here’s the top-20.

1. Simeon (7-0) 1

2. Hersey (13-0) 2

3. Kenwood (6-0) 3

4. Benet (9-0) 5

5. Fremd (10-1) 6

6. Marist (11-1) 7

7. Libertyville (13-2) 8

8. Loyola (16-2) 10

9. Maine South (10-3) 9

10. Stevenson (12-1) 4

11. Naperville North (9-1) 14

12. Lincoln-Way West (11-2) 11

13. Lyons (8-1) 19

14. Bolingbrook (8-2) 13

15. St. Ignatius (10-3) 15

16. Marian Catholic (14-4) NR

17. St. Viator (7-4) 16

18. Evanston (12-4) 12

19. York (8-1) 17

20. Willowbrook (7-2) NR