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Basketball rankings: Here are the top boys and girls teams entering the playoffs

The Vance and Garner girls are No. 1, as are the North Mecklenburg and Farmville Central boys.
Posted 2021-02-22T23:45:45+00:00 - Updated 2021-02-22T23:45:45+00:00
Dontrez Styles (3) of Kinston. Garner ran past Kinston to an 86-60 win in the HighSchoolOT.com Garner Showcase at Garner High School on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. (Photo By: Nick Stevens/HighSchoolOT.com)

With the N.C. High School Athletic Association basketball playoffs beginning this week, all teams in the state of North Carolina are officially in postseason mode.

In the next-to-last HighSchoolOT basketball rankings, the Vance and Garner girls are No. 1, as are the North Mecklenburg and Farmville Central boys.

Vance and North Mecklenburg were last ranked No. 1 after the second week of the season. When Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools were put on an athletics pause for three weeks, they were dropped from the rankings and have been working their ways back to the top ever since.

Here are the newcomers to this week's rankings:

  • West girls — No. 6 Lake Norman, No. 9 Providence.
  • East girls — No. 24 Pine Forest, No. 25 Chapel Hill
  • West boys — No. 14 Harding, No. 18 Rocky River, No. 24 Hough, No. 25 Charlotte Catholic
  • East boys — No. 19 Kinston, No. 23 Laney, No. 24 Northwood, No. 25 St. Pauls

The full boys and girls top 25 rankings are below. The final rankings will be posted one week after the NCHSAA championships. The N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association championships are this weekend.

West Girls

  1. Vance 8-0
  2. Shelby 14-0
  3. Newton-Conover 14-0
  4. Dudley 11-0
  5. Myers Park 7-0
  6. Lake Norman 9-1
  7. Enka 13-1
  8. Hickory Ridge 12-1
  9. Providence 6-0
  10. Asheville 11-2
  11. Independence 5-2
  12. Cannon School 18-5
  13. Jesse Carson 14-0
  14. Northwest Guilford 12-1
  15. Salisbury 13-1
  16. West Stokes 11-0
  17. Cuthbertson 13-1
  18. Northern Guilford 12-1
  19. East Surry 12-0
  20. Concord Academy 16-2
  21. Mitchell County 13-0
  22. Bunker Hill 10-0
  23. Freedom 9-0
  24. North Davidson 11-2
  25. Asheboro 11-0

East Girls

  1. Garner 12-0
  2. Farmville Central 10-0
  3. Apex Friendship 10-2
  4. Millbrook 11-1
  5. Terry Sanford 9-0
  6. E.E. Smith 9-1
  7. Ashley 12-1
  8. Hoggard 11-1
  9. Northwood 11-0
  10. Eastern Alamance 11-0
  11. Panther Creek 9-1
  12. North Raleigh Christian 17-1
  13. D.H. Conley 11-0
  14. Jordan 9-2
  15. Rocky Mount 10-0
  16. Southeast Raleigh 6-1
  17. Jack Britt 10-0
  18. North Pitt 11-2
  19. Heritage 12-1
  20. Princeton 13-0
  21. St. Pauls 12-0
  22. Knightdale 11-2
  23. Pamlico County 8-0
  24. Pine Forest 8-3
  25. Chapel Hill 9-2

West Boys

  1. North Mecklenburg 8-0
  2. Carmel Christian 22-1
  3. Victory Christian Center 18-7
  4. Cannon School 25-5
  5. Greensboro Day 24-5
  6. Weddington 13-0
  7. United Faith Christian 17-3
  8. North Davidson 12-0
  9. Northern Guilford 14-0
  10. R.J. Reynolds 11-1
  11. Ardrey Kell 6-0
  12. Mount Tabor 11-2
  13. Charlotte Latin 15-5
  14. Harding 5-1
  15. Central Cabarrus 11-1
  16. Cox Mill 8-2
  17. Independence 6-1
  18. Rocky River 6-1
  19. West Stanly 11-1
  20. Reidsville 8-1
  21. Forest Hills 10-2
  22. Hendersonville 12-0
  23. Crest 11-1
  24. Hough 6-2
  25. Charlotte Catholic 11-2

East Boys

  1. Farmville Central 10-0
  2. Millbrook 14-0
  3. Apex Friendship 14-0
  4. South Central 13-0
  5. Terry Sanford 9-1
  6. South Granville 11-3
  7. The Burlington School 21-7
  8. Pinecrest 12-1
  9. Northwood Temple 24-7
  10. Panther Creek 12-1
  11. Lumberton 10-2
  12. Westover 10-2
  13. Fuquay-Varina 10-2
  14. Cape Fear Christian 24-7
  15. Wayne Country Day 22-2
  16. Henderson Collegiate 8-2
  17. Riverside (Williamston) 11-0
  18. Princeton 15-0
  19. Kinston 10-3
  20. Trinity Academy Raleigh 12-2
  21. Granville Central 12-2
  22. Rocky Mount 10-0
  23. Laney 9-1
  24. Northwood 10-2
  25. St. Pauls 13-1

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