Atlanta metro 2019-20 boys basketball coaches rankings

Class AAAAAAA runner-up Grayson tops the list.

By Staff Report

May 20, 2020, 11:00am

Highlights of Grayson's 82-76 win over the defending Georgia 7A state champs, McEachern.

No. 2 Grayson beats McEachern in Georgia 7A semifinals 10,274 views 3:33

Video: Grayson vs. McEachern highlights

See footage from AAAAAAA semifinals.

At the conclusion of the 2019-20 high school basketball season in Georgia, we reached out to coaches in and around the Atlanta metro to get their take on the area's top teams.

It's another perspective to go alongside the MaxPreps computer rankings — where not everyone always agrees with the algorithm's output.

Over 100 coaches responded to our call to identify the Top 10 teams in the region. The number in parenthesis is that particular school's standing in the MaxPreps computer rankings provided for the sake of comparison. Here are the results:

Rank. (CPU Rank) School (City)

1. (1) Grayson (Loganville)

2. (2) Wheeler (Marietta)

3. (3) Woodward Academy (College Park)

4. (4) St. Francis (Alpharetta)

5. (6) McEachern (Powder Springs)

6. (9) Pace Academy (Atlanta)

7. (5) Milton

8. (10) Dutchtown (Hampton)

9. (12) Norcross

10. (17) Chattahoochee (Alpharetta)

11. (8) South Cobb (Austell)