BB RANKINGS: The final Top 10s

By E. Shawn Aylsworth
Managing Editor

The Associated Press has released its seventh and final sets of weekly polls for the 2011-12 Ohio high school boys basketball season, and we find only one school moving up among the final Top 3s in each division.

That would be Jackson Center, which has risen from ninth in Poll 1 into a first-place tie in Division IV with season-long leader Berlin Hiland. Otherwise, there are no changes among the first three as D1 Columbus Northland, D2 Dayton Dunbar, and D3 Carroll Bloom-Carroll finish the regular season at the top.

The rankings from Feb. 20 (listed by rank followed by school, number of first-place votes (if applicable), record, vote total, and ranking from the last poll:

DIVISION I
1. Columbus Northland (20) 19-1 218 1
2. Cincinnati LaSalle (2) 19-1 194 2
3. Mentor 17-2 137 3
4. Pickerington Central 18-2 120 7
5. Toledo Whitmer 17-2 106 8
6. Cincinnati Archbishop Moeller 17-3 77 6
7. Powell Olentangy Liberty 18-2 76 4
8. Columbus Walnut Ridge 18-1 69 5
9. Cleveland Heights 15-2 68 9
10. Warren G. Harding 16-3 49 10

Others receiving 12 or more points (3): Lakewood St. Edward, Norwalk, Garfield Heights

DIVISION II
1. Dayton Dunbar (14) 20-0 206 1
2. Alliance (3) 20-0 175 2
3. Defiance (1) 19-0 152 3
4. Franklin (1) 20-0 141 4
5. Akron East (1) 19-1 111 7
6. Cincinnati Taft (2) 13-4 98 5
7. Plain City Jonathan Alder 18-1 87 6
8. East Liverpool 17-3 52 8
9. Vincent Warren 17-2 49 9
10. Mentor Lake Catholic 16-2 36 NR

Others receiving 12 or more points (2): Lexington, Wauseon

DIVISION III
1. Carroll Bloom-Carroll (15) 20-0 208 1
2. Leavittsburg LaBrae (3) 20-0 190 2
3. Cincinnati Summit Country Day (3) 19-1 159 3
4. Chesapeake 19-1 132 5
5. Lima Central Catholic 17-2 111 6
6. Portsmouth 18-2 97 8
7. Bedford St. Peter Chanel 16-3 86 4
8. Versailles 18-2 78 9
9. Creston Norwayne (1) 16-2 43 7
10. Newton Falls 16-3 26 NR

Others receiving 12 or more points (1): Ironton

DIVISION IV
1. Jackson Center (13) 20-0 204 2
1. Berlin Hiland (6) 18-1 181 1
3. Edgerton (2) 19-0 155 3
4. Richmond Heights 18-1 145 4
5. Fort Recovery 17-2 118 5
6. Zanesville Bishop Rosecrans 17-3 93 7
7. Newark Catholic 17-3 73 6
8. Malvern 17-3 71 9
9. Columbus Africentric Early College 16-3 57 8
10. Cleveland Villa Angela-St. Joseph 11-8 24 10

Others receiving 12 or more points (2): Dalton (1), Dayton Jefferson Township