Video: Top 25 national girls basketball rankings
See who the top teams in the nation are.
It's automatic every Monday and Tuesday during the girls prep basketball season. High school basketball fans from all corners of the state login to their computers hoping the school they are loyal to moved up in the rankings, took over the top spot, or made the climb into the rankings.
But what about the national rankings? Oh what a coup that would be, to find your alma mater alongside traditional powers La Jolla Country Day (La Jolla, Calif.), Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.) or Sierra Canyon (Chatsworth, Calif.). Heck, landing a Top 100 ranking would be pretty cool, too.
Well, this week we did that work for you. Scouring through the MaxPreps National Rankings, we unearthed the current national ranking for each member of Nebraska's Top 10 girls basketball teams.
While the Cornhusker State is not represented in the Top 25, or the Top 100, top-ranked Crete did climb 69 spots to No. 300. Lincoln Pius X, Nebraska's No. 2 club, is now a member of the Top 350 at No. 341 and Millard South sits in at 355th.
Hastings St. Cecilia and Lincoln East round out this week's Top 5 at 542nd and 577th respectively out of the 17,167 schools that now reside in MaxPreps' girls basketball national rankings database.
Classes A, B, C1 and C2 are all represented in this week's Top 10. But that does not mean that some of Nebraska's small school programs do not hold high national rankings.
Pleasanton, the top squad in Class D1, ranks 16th in Nebraska and 1,388th nationally, while Class D2's No. 1 club Falls City Sacred Heart is ranked 18th in the Cornhusker State and 1,441st in the national rankings. Besides the Top 10 teams, Class A No. 6 North Platte, Nebraska's No. 11 squad, also ranks in the nation's Top 1,000 at 936th.
We used Tuesday's rankings for this week's Top 10. As you browse through the Top 10, listed on the top line is the name of the school, its won-loss record through last weekend's competition in parentheses, the school's scoring differential and its MaxPreps power ranking.
The third line and beyond is reserved for last weekend's result(s) for the school. If the school did not play over the weekend, we included the result of its last contested basketball game going into the weekend. This week's competition is not recorded since it did not impact Tuesday's rankings.
Where do Nebraska's Top 10 girls basketball teams rank nationally?
1. Crete (12-0) 50.4-32.3 23.8Nebraska Class B Ranking (1st) | Nebraska Ranking (1st) | National Ranking (300th)
Rose 69 spots to 300th nationally after knocking off Norris 52-32.
2. Pius X (Lincoln) (11-0) 62.0-38.5 23.4Nebraska Class A Ranking (1st) | Nebraska Ranking (2nd) | National Ranking (341st)
Dropped three spots to 341st nationally after upending Bellevue West 74-43.
3. Millard South (Omaha) (15-0) 72.9-33.2 23.2Nebraska Class A Ranking (2nd) | Nebraska Ranking (3rd) | National Ranking (355th)
Fell 72 spots to 355th nationally after defeating Omaha Marian and Omaha Central 73-38 and 67-23 respectively.
4. St. Cecilia (Hastings) (14-1) 55.0-32.1 21.5Nebraska Class C2 Ranking (1st) | Nebraska Ranking (4th) | National Ranking (542nd)
Climbed 136 spots to 542nd nationally after knocking off Kearney Catholic 51-27.
5. Lincoln East (Lincoln) (12-1) 61.7-42.8 21.2Nebraska Class A Ranking (3rd) | Nebraska Ranking (5th) | National Ranking (577th)
Jumped 153 spots to 577th nationally after upending Omaha Westside 68-65.
6. Omaha Westside (Omaha) (11-3) 54.4-45.1 19.3Nebraska Class A Ranking (4th) | Nebraska Ranking (6th) | National Ranking (880th)
Dropped 122 spots to 880th nationally after falling to Lincoln East 68-65.
7. North Bend Central (North Bend) (14-0) 58.1-29.4 19.3Nebraska Class C1 Ranking (1st) | Nebraska Ranking (7th) | National Ranking (889th)
Rose 123 spots to 889th nationally after defeating Archbishop Bergan 47-37.
8. Bancroft-Rosalie/Lyons-Decatur Northeast (Bancroft) (13-1) 60.7-35.9 19.3Nebraska Class C2 Ranking (2nd) | Nebraska Ranking (8th) | National Ranking (890th)
Fell 225 spots to 890th nationally after dropping a 55-52 decision to Oakland-Craig.
9. Crofton) (12-3) 58.1-40.7 19.3Nebraska Class C2 Ranking (3rd) | Nebraska Ranking (9th) | National Ranking (892nd)
Dropped 39 spots to 892nd nationally after knocking off South Dakota's West Central High School 54-51.
10. Lincoln Christian (Lincoln) (10-2) 50.8-37.6 19.2Nebraska Class C1 Ranking (2nd) | Nebraska Ranking (10th) | National Ranking (898th)
Climbed 122 spots to 898th nationally after upending Louisville 57-20.
