Way Too Early Preseason Rankings for 24-25

[ACfan4]

Wanted to see who everyone would have as a top 15-20 list for this. 

[theguru]

1 minute ago, ACfan4 said:

Wanted to see who everyone would have as a top 15-20 list for this. 

Who do you have for your top five?

[Waterboy70]

Great Crossing and Newport, St X, at the first tier. Henry Clay, Marshall County, South Laurel, bringing up next. Obviously missed a few.

Edited March 24 by theguru

[24Rocks]

Doesn’t Adair County have a lot of players back?

[16thBBall Fan]

Great Crossing Newport, St. X,  Frederick Douglass and Bryan Station from the 42nd district. Douglass has their entire starting 5 back Station has one of the top players in the 11th region in Armari Owens. Henry Clay or Lex. Cath. probably next in that region. Ashland will still be good in the 16th as well Boyd Co. GRC will be one of the better teams in the state again next year.

[Strawberrybarrow250]

Cooper will be very good again next year and a definite top 10 team for sure.  I would imagine them and Newport will be battling it out for the 9th region again.  Cov Cath will have some good guard play, but unless they get a transfer will really be missing a big man.

[theguru]

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[LouHSJunkie]

South Oldham, South Laurel, Web Dubois, Butler County, Adair County, Lloyd Memorial,Manual, Bryan Station, Newport, Boyd County, St. X, Woodford County, Taylor County all will be in the top 20 mix and have good teams coming back.

[ACfan4]

7 hours ago, 24Rocks said:

Doesn’t Adair County have a lot of players back?

Adair returns their top 7 in the rotation led by Connor Loy and Isaiah Cochran two guys with D1 offers. They def could be a heavy favorite in the 5th with as much as the region loses and arguably top 10-15 in the state after making the final 8 this year. 

[24Rocks]

Just now, ACfan4 said:

Adair returns their top 7 in the rotation led by Connor Loy and Isaiah Cochran two guys with D1 offers. They def could be a heavy favorite in the 5th with as much as the region loses and arguably top 10-15 in the state after making the final 8 this year. 

Where are their DI offers?

[ACfan4]

43 minutes ago, 24Rocks said:

Where are their DI offers?

Loy has an offer from Mcneese State. Cochran has offers from Mcneese, Bryant, EKU and TN Tech

[10thregionobserver]

Great Crossing, Newport, Frederick Douglass; Adair Co, St X.  Montgomery County 

[westernky]

Calloway County returns their top 3 players and I would pick them as favorites to win the 1st region next year followed by Marshall County. Henderson County returns Davenport and Suggs and should be the favorite in the 2nd region. Lyon County looses a lot but they have a really good sophomore class led by Kirk, Breedlove, and Defew that should keep them competitive at the top of region 2 for a couple more years. Bowling Green only looses 2 seniors and returns Bailey, Barber and Wardlow from a top 10 team this year. I would expect the Purples to be the heavy favorite in the 4th region next year with all the talent that Warren Central is losing. 
 

Some other western Kentucky teams to keep an eye on would be Paducah Tilghman, McCracken County, and Madisonville North Hopkins. 
 

PT only loses 2 seniors from this year and return their 2 best players in Woodfork and Thompson, a sophomore and an 8th grader respectively. McCracken loses 3 seniors but one of those didn’t play this year due to an injury and they return Klope, Fulcher, Jackson, and Martin. Madisonville only looses 2 seniors and they improved significantly from the beginning of the season to the end this year. 

[ACfan4]

5th region could be weakest in my lifetime. Here is examples of how much everyone loses that were contenders this year. 

Adair- they lose their 8th man but everyone else returns. 

Central Hardin- Decker, Stone, Jaggers. that's their top 3 scorers

North Hardin- Boykins, Smith, Wiley, Ross all gone, that's 2 lead scorers and 2 other starters

Etown- Alex and Ayden Evans, Durbin, Hanier, Moberly. that's 2 lead scorers and 3 other rotation players

Larue- Lead scorer and rebounder Daniel Allen is gone

Caverna- Rowlett, and Barker 2 starters are gone

Green County- Mckinney the teams best defender who starts is gone

Washington County- 4 starters besides Gabe Weis are gone

Taylor County- Wise, Clements, Johnson, 3 starters gone.

Bardstown- Lead scorer and 2 other starters are gone. 

 

[LethalPG]

Danville Christian returns two veteran guards and two 6"11 impact players.  They're state ranked caliber team talent wise.