Chloe Johnson and St. Mary's, last year's national champions, are slowly making their way towards the top of the rankings.
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Hathaway Brown may be a smaller Ohio school with three losses, but Hathaway has a win over Whitney Young of Chicago, which means Friday's game won't be easy. And then No. 11 Science Hill is on tap Saturday.
7. (8) Windward (Los Angeles, Calif.) 19-0Windward played its closest game of 2013 Monday — and won by 30. On Saturday, though, it's SoCal power Long Beach Poly, and the game will be much tighter.
8. (10) Shabazz (Newark, N.J.) 14-0Blair Academy just wouldn't go away until
Zaire O'Neal scored for the third time in the final 73 seconds to give Shabazz a 52-51 win over a team that had lost just once all year. And unbeaten Phillipsburg is next.
9. (11) St. Mary's (Phoenix) 19-1Pinnacle was supposed to give St. Mary's a battle, but the No. 9 Knights went ahead early and never looked back in a 20-point win. Maybe it will be closer in the playoffs.
10. (15) Paul VI (Fairfax, Va.) 20-0Seton is a quality opponent, but no threat to the elite teams in the DMV. Still, Friday's game isn't a gimme, and the back-loaded schedule will start to heat up come February.
