February 18, 2026

Area teams in latest KBCA rankings

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This week continues big push for sub-state seeding, as several area schools are in this weeks Kansas Basketball Coaches Association rankings.

The Liberal girls remain ranked at No. 9 in Class 6A, while the Hugoton boys are at No. 4 in Class 4A. Holcomb’s girls are third and boys are fifth in Class 3A. Class 1A, Division 1 features the Hodgeman County girls at No. 5 and the South Gray girls at No. 7, while the Meade boys are at No. 6 and Spearville is at No. 9. Class 1A, Division 2 has the Bucklin girls No. 2, Dighton girls ranked fifth and Ashland sixth, while on the boys side, Deerfield is No. 9.

Girls
Class 6A

1. Wichita Heights
2. Olathe South
3. Shawnee Mission South
4. Derby
5. Blue Valley North
6. Olathe North
7. Manhattan
8. Wichita East
9. Liberal
10. Topeka High

Class 5A
1. Andover
2. St. Thomas Aquinas
3. Maize South
4. Hays
5. St. James Academy
6. Shawnee Heights
7. Kapaun Mt. Carmel
8. Basehor-Linwood
9. Goddard Eisenhower
10. Kansas City Piper

Class 4A
1. Wellington
2. Eudora
3. Wamego
4. Independence
5. Bishop Miege
6. Rock Creek
7. Topeka Hayden
8. Clearwater
9. Andale
10. Ottawa

Class 3A
1. Silver Lake
2. Halstead
3. Holcomb
4. Osage City
5. Hiawatha
6. Burlington
7. Goodland
8. Frontenac
9. Beloit
10. SE Of Saline

Class 2A
1. Eureka
2. Ellinwood
3. Moundridge
4. Hoxie
5. Sacred Heart
6. St. Mary’s Colgan
7. Hillsboro
8. Oakley
9. Remington
10. Conway Springs

Class 1A, Division I
1. Little River
2. Wabaunsee
3. Centralia
4. Olpe
5. Hodgeman County
6. Rock Hills
7. South Gray
8. Quinter
9. Pretty Prairie
10. Oberlin

Class 1A, Division II
1. Central Christian
2. Bucklin
3. Hanover
4. Linn
5. Dighton
6. Ashland

7. Argonia
8. Marais des Cynges Valley
9. Wheatland-Grinnell
10. Lebo

Boys
Class 6A

1. Shawnee Mission South
2. Olathe North
3. Mill Valley
4. Blue Valley Northwest
5. Wichita Heights
6. Blue Valley
7. Maize
8. Derby
9. Olathe East
10. Blue Valley North

Class 5A
1. Kapaun Mt. Carmel
2. Maize South
3. Bonner Springs
4. Topeka West
5. Topeka Seaman
6. Kansas City Piper
7. Emporia
8. Bishop Carroll
9. Hays
10. Salina South

Class 4A
1. Rock Creek
2. Atchison
3. Pratt
4. Hugoton
5. Concordia
6. Bishop Miege
7. McPherson
8. Andale
9. Santa Fe Trail
10. Baldwin

Class 3A
1. Wichita Collegiate
2. Hesston
3. Beloit
4. Burlington
5. Holcomb
6. Hiawatha
7. Silver Lake
8. Chaparral
9. Riverton
10. Neodesha

Class 2A
1. Sterling
2. Berean Academy
3. Moundridge
4. Sacred Heart
5. The Classical School
6. Ell-Saline
7. Cair Paravel
8. TMP-Marian
9. St. Mary’s
10. Pittsburg-Colgan

Class 1A, Division I
1. Little River
2. Olpe
3. Central Plains
4. Burden-Central
5. Pleasonton
6. Meade
7. South Central
8. St. John’s/Tipton
9. Spearville
10. Seabury Academy

Class 1A, Division II
1. Axtell
2. Hanover
3. Hartford
4. Lebo
5. Wallace County
6. Victoria
7. Wheatland-Grinnell
8. Thunder Ridge
9. Deerfield
10. Linn