MaxPreps Top 25 national high school girls basketball rankings

There's not much left to the 2013-14 season — just the California state championships this coming weekend and the Dick's Sporting Goods National High School Tournament April 3-5.

See the list of 2013-14 girls basketball state champions

The latter will feature No. 7 Riverdale Baptist (Upper Marlboro, Md.), No. 21 Miami, Utah's best in Fremont (Plain City) and 26-6 Edgewater (Orlando) from Florida.

See the girls basketball playoff brackets from each state

Oh, and the championship game will be at Madison Square Garden and televised on ESPN2.


*Season complete

1. (1) Blackman (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) 34-1*
If Blackman comes close to your town next year, find a way to get there. Barring injury, they're something special.

2. (2) Incarnate Word Academy (St. Louis) 31-1*
Incarnate Word's closest game in the Missouri Class 4 playoffs was in the first round against MICDS — a 13-point win. Dexter went down by 17 in the final.

3. (3) Regis Jesuit (Aurora, Colo.) 26-2*
Regis Jesuit was tested all over the country — and No. 3 in the nation shows they pretty much aced the exam.

4. (4) Long Beach Poly (Calif.) 26-3
Poly will play for its sixth California title, but its first Open Division championship — but only because California has only had an Open Division for two years. Etiwanda was the final victim in Southern California; the last hurdle is No. 23 Salesian Saturday in Sacramento.

5. (5) Rock Bridge (Columbia, Mo.) 27-3*
St. Joseph's Academy, long a Missouri power, put on a late season burst to get to the Class 5 final — but Rock Bridge was simply too good, winning by 11.

6. (6) Myers Park (Charlotte, N.C.) 30-1*
Adding to the luster of an already great season is a win over the newest member of the Xcellent 25, No. 25 Sierra Canyon.

7. (7) Riverdale Baptist (Upper Marlboro, Md.) 27-3
Riverdale will be the last top-10 team playing when it winds up its season in early April.

8. (8) Whitney Young (Chicago) 29-3*
Corry Irvin just keeps the great teams coming at Whitney Young.

9. (10) Bedford North Lawrence (Bedford, Ind.) 27-1*
Damon Bailey, who was featured in Sports Illustrated as a young Indiana high school star, coached this team — and two of his daughters.

10. (11) Shabazz (Newark, N.J.) 33-1*
Vanessa Watson has been coaching for 32 years, and she's now won six state titles. Manasquan actually led in the second quarter, but Shabazz took over from then on, using its size to roll to a 69-55 Tournament of Champions triumph.

11. (12) Manvel (Texas) 38-2*
A couple more upsets and Manvel might wind up in the top ten.

12. (13) Duncanville (Texas) 33-1*
One of the great runs in recent high school sports, that 105-game winning streak should not be eclipsed by the loss in the last game.

13. (14) Windward (Los Angeles) 24-3*
It's been a great ride for Jordin Canada and Kristen Simon, but they're moving on — which means former Stanford star Vanessa Nygaard will have some adjusting to do next year.

14. (15) Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.) 26-3*
Katie Lou Samuelson needed just a little more help this year, but she's got another shot next season — and Mater Dei returns almost all of its firepower along with her.

15. (16) McEachern (Powder Springs, Ga.) 28-2*
If Caliya Robinson improves as much this offseason as she did the last offseason, the loss of those seven seniors won't be as damaging as people think.

16. (17) New Hope Christian Academy (Thomasville, N.C.) 32-1*
The top two scorers — who are also the top rebounder and passer — graduate, so New Hope might not be quite at the same level next year.

17. (18) Salmen (Slidell, La.) 32-1*
As long as 6-5 Kalani Brown is around — and she's back next season — Salmen will be a favorite in pretty much every game it plays.

18. (19) Princeton (Cincinnati) 28-2*
It's been a great four-year run for Princeton's seniors, but eight of them graduate this spring.

19. (20) Cosby (Midlothian, Va.) 27-0*
This year's state title was Cosby's first, but there are two Division I players returning, so it might not be the last.

20. (21) Montini (Lombard, Ill.) 34-2*
If Montini had extended its geographic reach to include games against other regional or national powers, this ranking could easily have been a lot higher.

21. (22) Miami 25-1
Miami will have one more chance to move up — or conceivably drop out — in the Dick's Sporting Goods National High School Tournament April 3-5. No. 7 Riverdale Baptist will also be there so a statement could be made.

22. (23) Eleanor Roosevelt (Greenbelt, Md.) 26-0*
Just a note: There were no seniors on Eleanor Roosevelt's roster this year.

23. (24) Salesian (Richmond, Calif.) 30-6
Miramonte shut down Mariya Moore, who was considered by many to be pretty much all there was to Salesian. But the rest of the lineup stepped up, and Salesian rolled over Miramonte — which lost twice all year, both times to Salesian — to move into the California Open finals.

24. (25) South (Wichita, Kan.) 24-1*
It was no surprise South repeated as 6A champions, as every starter returned from the defending title team (which also went 24-1) — but three starters will be coming back next year as well, plus all but two seniors.

25. (NR) Sierra Canyon (Chatsworth, Calif.) 27-4
Sierra Canyon has some serious talent and is the defending California Division V (smallest schools) champion. This year, they're playing for the D-IV title, and those four losses are to No. 6 Myers Park, No. 13 Windward (twice) and No. 14 Mater Dei.

Dropped out: No. 9 Neumann-Goretti.