Depending on what class you look at, Trib HSSN either did a great job ranking the Top 5 heading into the state playoffs with plenty of “likes” and “atta-boys,” or we should hide our face in great shame and are banished to the bat cave.
It has been a crazy first two rounds of the PIAA boys basketball postseason with some brackets going as expected and others turned upside down.
We were perfect in 6A and 3A, nearly perfect in 5A and A and should lose our ranking card with what happened in 4A and 3A where only three of the 10 ranked teams are alive heading into the quarterfinals.
All but one of the top seeds are advancing to the state elite eight.
Class 4A No. 1 Cathedral Prep was stunned by City League champion Obama Academy to highlight the crazy Class 4A where three other ranked teams were also eliminated.
However, the other top teams remain the same with Imhotep Institute Charter in 6A, Neumann-Goretti in 5A, Taylor Riverside in 3A, Sewickley Academy in 2A and Sankofa Freedom Academy in A still No. 1 heading in the quarterfinals.
Here is the latest Top 5 in each of the six classifications. Teams are listed with overall record, district and last week’s ranking.
Class 6A
1. Imhotep Institute Charter (23-6) (12) (1)
2. Father Judge (17-11) (12) (2)
3. Upper St. Clair (26-1) (7) (3)
4. Central Dauphin (24-3) (3) (4)
5. Plymouth-Whitemarsh (24-4) (1) (5)
Out: None
Class 5A
1. Neumann-Goretti (22-5) (12) (1)
2. Chartiers Valley (25-2) (7) (2)
3. West York (22-1) (3) (3)
4. Monsignor Bonner-Archbishop Prendergast (19-6) (12) (5)
5. Moon (22-4) (7) (NR)
Out: Upper Dublin (1)
Class 4A
1. Scranton Prep (20-5) (2) (5)
2. Bishop McDevitt (21-3) (3) (NR)
3. Carver & Engineering (22-6) (12) (NR)
4. Devon Prep (7-18) (12) (NR)
5. North Catholic (21-6) (7) (NR)
Out: Cathedral Prep (10), Berks Catholic (3), Pope John Paul II (1), Archbishop Carroll (12)
Class 3A
1. Taylor Riverside (25-1) (2) (1)
2. Bishop Guilfoyle Academy (25-4) (6) (2)
3. Camp Hill Trinity (22-2) (3) (3)
4. Warrior Run (25-2) (4) (4)
5. West Catholic (14-12) (12) (5)
Out: None
Class 2A
1. Sewickley Academy (27-1) (7) (1)
2. United (29-0) (6) (2)
3. Delone Catholic (25-1) (3) (NR)
4. Jeannette (24-2) (7) (NR)
5. Paul Robeson (22-6) (12) (NR)
Out: Constitution (12), York Catholic (3), Delco Christian (1)
Class A
1. Sankofa Freedom Academy (20-8) (12) (1)
2. Neighborhood Academy (23-3) (7) (2)
3. Elk County Catholic (26-2) (9) (4)
4. Erie First Christian Academy (20-6) (10) (5)
5. High Point Baptist (16-8) (3) (NR)
Out: Bethlehem Christian (11)