The only statewide high school basketball and wrestling preview magazine for Kansas is now online, check it out below and find a list of hard copy locations further down the page.
The 2023 Winter Edition is nearly complete. Look for the online edition soon, with hard copy distribution set to start next week, but first, here's a look at the cover and inside cover of the new Winter Preview.
Update: Now updated with state championship winners and final scores. Congratulations to all the 2023 state finalist on an excellent season!
Update: Now with our predictions. The weather is making these very tough, but check out our best guess with each classification's "Tale of the Tape" statistical information. Good luck to all the teams at state and safe travels to everyone today.
GIRLS RANKINGS
6A Girls
1 OP-Blue Valley North
2 Shawnee Mission South
3 Topeka-Washburn Rural
4 Wichita Southeast
5 Olathe Northwest
6 Wichta South
7 Olathe North
8 OP-Blue Valley
9 Lawrence
10 Liberal
5A Girls
1 OP-St. Thomas Aquinas
2 Andover
3 Lenexa-St. James Academy
4 Topeka - Seaman
5 Wichita - Bishop Carroll
6 Emporia
7 Andover Central
8 Basehor-Linwood
9 Maize South
10 Topeka-Highland Park
Here it is, semifinal weekend, the final four in each classification remain. We did a little better with our picks last week, but still struggled more than a season ago. Even so, we'll take another stab at ranking the Top 5 in each class and guessing the winners of each semifinal. As always, good luck to each of the final four teams in each classification. Win or lose, what an incredible accomplishment to make it this far.
The asterisk (*) indicates our prediction of which of the two games in each classification will be the closest.
Class 6A
We've found this year difficult to pick so far, and in many classifications that really doesn't change this week. We're going to throw some rankings out there, even though we don't have a great deal of confidence in them, so while you could use this article as affirmation or bulletin board material, we fully expect to miss on several of these without complete clarification coming until the weekend after Thanksgiving, which is the way it should be anyway. Best of luck to each of the eight teams left in each classification heading into Friday night!
6A
