Here’s our best guess at the Top 5 in each classification and our predictions for the winners of this week’s regional playoff games. Asterisks indicate the games we believe will be the closest on each side of the bracket. Not much change in the rankings, though we returned St. James Academy to third place in 4A because even at 2-7 the Thunder pushed Miege to the brink proving they are deserving of the ranking.
Class 6A
1. Washburn Rural
2. Olathe North
3. Manhattan
4. Olathe East
5. Gardner-Edgerton
Class 5A
1. Mill Valley
2. Blue Valley Southwest
3. Kapaun Mt. Carmel
4. De Soto
5. Maize South
Class 4A
1. Bishop Miege
2. St. Thomas Aquinas
3. Louisburg
4. Tonganoxie
5. St. James Academy
Class 3A
1. Cheney
2. Andale
3. Topeka Hayden
4. Wichita Collegiate
5. Clay Center