10th Round Team Rankings

Well another week is over and another round of rankings is upon us. Things are really getting exciting and games are meaning more and more as the seeding meetings are only a week away and every game means that much more the closer we get just like it does in NCAAs. The games
played late in the year always mean more then early season games.


Division One
Top seven remain exactly the same as no one lost after that though things got very messy as four of the next five teams lost. Wisconsin Rapids was the one team that won out and move up to #8. Bay Port lost to the best team so by virtue stay at #9 while Hamilton dropped to #10. Beloit lost a bad game but, because they did just beat Madison Memorial the prior week they remain ahead of them. The last team that lost was Waukesha West lost and fall to #15, while the final three teams move up a spot. Pulaski and Burlington are knocking on the door if anyone slips up in front of them.

1. Appleton East
2. Milwaukee Riverside
3. Germantown
4. Arrowhead
5. De Pere
6. Milwaukee King
7. Racine Case
8. Wisconsin Rapids
9. Bay Port
10. Milwaukee Hamilton
11. Beloit
12. Madison Memorial
13. Sheboygan North
14. Kenosha Bradford
15. Waukesha West

Division Two
One through four remain the same. New Richmond and Two Rivers flip flop as Two Rivers lost their first game of the year to a very good Kiel team. Monroe moves up to #7 after Madison Edgewood lost twice one of which to Monroe, Tosa East lost to a good Marquette team, and Logan lost to Onalaska and Aquinas. Edgewood falls all the way to 13, while Tosa East fell to 11, and Logan went to 12. New Berlin West, Monona Grove, and Mcfarland jumped them all as well as jumped Rice Lake who lost to a good D3 Northwestern. Whitefish Bay lost and are replaced by Mount Horeb.

1. Waunakee
2. Seymour
3. Onalaska
4. Wisconsin Lutheran
5. New Richmond
6. Two Rivers
7. Monroe
8. New Berlin West
9. Monona Grove
10. Mcfarland
11. Wauwotosa East
12. Lacrosse Logan
13. Madison Edgewood
14. Rice Lake
15. Mount Horeb

Division Three
D3 once again proves to be the toughest ranking to break in to as the top 15 remain the same and only two charges as two teams lost their first games of the year, to Wisconsin teams anyway. St. Johns was #1 but, lost to the Hope School who is on the verge of being ranked, and fall all the way to #8. Omro lost their first game of the year and drop to #11. Everyone else won out and D3 looks as tough as ever. One game I did forget was Ladysmith edged out Northwestern for the second time this year and Northwestern goes to #12.

1. Manitowoc Roncalli
2. GET
3. Lacrosse Aquinas
4. Brillion
5. East Troy
6. Whitefish Bay Dominican
7. Racine St. Catherines
8. St. Johns Military
9. Lakeside Lutheran
10. Ladysmtih
11. Omro
12. Northwestern
13. River Valley
14. Kiel
15. Altoona

Division Four
D4 once again looks much the same as Cuba City and Colby were the only teams that lost. Cuba City falls to #8, while Colby falls to #15. Young Coggs Prep and Bangor are right on the heels of the top 15.

1. Blair Taylor
2. Oostburg
3. Eau Claire Regis
4. Marathon
5. Racine Lutheran
6. Darlington
7. Laconia
8. Cuba City
9. Amherst
10. Aburndale
11. Peshtigo
12. Grantsburg
13. Wild Rose
14. Colfax
15. Colby

Division Five
Green Bay NEW Lutheran lost twice and fall to #9 while Suring lost to ranked D4 team in Peshtigo and go to #7. Laona and Eau Claire Immanuel both lost and are on the outside looking in as they are replaced by Barneveld and Mellen. Hillsboro also lost by hang in there at #12.

1. Benton
2. Randolph
3. Clayton
4. Prentice
5. Seneca
6. Gilmanton
7. Suring
8. Sheboygan Area Lutheran
9. Green Bay NEW Lutheran
10. Wauzeka-Steuben
11. Luck
12. Hillsboro
13. Barneveld
14. Mellen
15. Wisconsin School for the Deaf

As the weeks go by I get more exciting for the playoffs. Every week I do my rankings I'm thinking about who I'm going to pick to get to state and it might switch week to week. From the start of the year I had Green Bay NEW Lutheran winning D5 but, now after these two loses I'm not so sure and am leaning towards Randolph but, then I think back to last year and NEW Lutheran pushed Randolph to the limit in the title game and they were barely over .500. Another team I had liked is Madison Memorial but, their recent struggles and I have them barely hanging on to a top 15 spot, I'll admit partly because I watch them a lot and am showing some favoritism. With Onalaska losing two of their top three players I thought Rice Lake was a shoe in to make state but, Rice Lake continues to struggle while Onalaska remains as hot as ever. I could go on and on with different thoughts I've had but, these are just a couple to come to mind quickly. I didn't even mention D3 which is easily the deepest division and it's really anyones title to win. Another week of basketball is right around the corner and I think you can tell I'm excited as ever.