Girls basketball/Final Top 20 rankings
Girls basketball
Team Comment
1. Rolling Meadows (30-4) Class 4A runner-up could be better next year
2. Vernon Hills (31-3) Great run to 3A title game for Cougars
3. Montini (35-2) Broncos wanted more, settle for 3rd in 3A
4. Huntley (26-8) Four starters back for 4A fourth-place team
5. WW South (29-4) First sectional title since 1997
6. Neuqua Valley (27-4) Loses one starter off sectional finalist
7. Wheaton North (23-8) Falcons’ first sectional title since 1986
8. Fremd (26-8) MSL champs 2nd time in 3 years
9. Naperville Central (25-7) Memorable regional final rally against Benet
10. Benet (20-10) Prasse graduates, but cupboard far from bare
11. Metea Valley (22-7) Program’s best year, but what-ifs with injuries
12. Burlington Central (27-5) Elite Eight team will only get better
13. Streamwood (22-9) Oh so close to a sectional title
14. Willowbrook (22-6) Four seniors leave, but an unbeaten soph team
15. Geneva (19-11) Won 5th straight regional
16. Cary-Grove (23-7) Four-peat regional champs
17. Elk Grove (19-11 2nd to Meadows in MSL East
18. Stevenson (20-9) 4th 20-win season in Dineen’s 4 seasons
19. Crystal Lake S. (23-7) Mickow leads talented group of returnees
20. Grayslake North (26-4) Zion-Benton ends Knights’ best season