KBCA Releases 2025-26 Preseason Basketball Rankings

The Kansas Basketball Coaches Association (KBCA) released its Preseason Class Rankings for the upcoming high school girls’ and boys’ basketball seasons, which begin Tuesday, Dec. 2.

The full top 10 for each class is listed below.

6A

Boys:

1. Shawnee Mission South
2. Olathe North
3. Shawnee-Mill Valley
4. OP-Blue Valley
5. OP-Blue Valley North
6. Derby
7. Wichita Heights
8. Maize
9. Topeka-Washburn Rural
10. OP-Blue Valley Northwest

Girls:

1. Derby
2. Olathe South
3. Olathe North
4. Topeka-Washburn Rural
5. Olathe West
6. OP-Blue Valley North
7. Wichita East
8. Topeka High
9. Manhattan
10. Liberal

5A

Boys:

1. Kapaun Mt. Carmel
2. KC-Piper
3. Andover
4. Great Bend
5. Topeka-Highland Park
6. Topeka-Shawnee Heights
7. Topeka West
8. Bonner Springs
9. Topeka-Seaman
10. Maize South

Girls:

1. St. Thomas Aquinas
2. Maize South
3. Andover
4. St. James Academy
5. KC-Piper
6. Topeka-Seaman
7. Wichita-Bishop Carroll
8. Spring Hill
9. Topeka-Shawnee Heights
10. Hays

4A

Boys:

1. Baldwin
2. Rock Creek
3. McPherson
4. Ottawa
5. Andale
6. Pratt
7. OP-Bishop Miege
8. Topeka-Hayden
9. Eudora
10. Atchison

Girls:

1. Wellington
2. OP-Bishop Miege
3. Topeka-Hayden
4. Eudora
5. Andale
6. Wamego
7. Clay Center
8. Buhler
9. Altamont-Labette County
10. McPherson

3A

Boys:

1. Hesston
2. Cheney
3. Silver Lake
4. Holcomb
5. Goodland
6. Nemaha Central
7. Burlington
8. Scott City
9. Wichita Collegiate
10. Beloit

Girls:

1. Halstead
2. Silver Lake
3. Osage City
4. Hesston
5. Colby
6. Holcomb
7. Goodland
8. Girard
9. Riley County
10. Cheney

2A

Boys:

1. Sterling
2. Moundridge
3. Ell-Saline
4. Rossville
5. Pittsburg-St. Mary’s Colgan
6. Salina-Sacred Heart
7. St. Mary’s
8. Berean Academy
9. Valley Falls
10. Bennington

Girls:

1. Moundridge
2. Pittsburg-St. Mary’s Colgan
3. Inman
4. Highland-Doniphan West
5. Ellinwood
6. Hillsboro
7. Eureka
8. Blue Rapids-Valley Heights
9. Cottonwood Falls-Chase County
10. Oakley

1A Div. 1

Boys:

1. Olpe
2. Coldwater-South Central
3. Montezuma-South Gray
4. Lincoln
5. Centralia
6. Little River
7. Frankfort
8. Alma-Wabaunsee
9. Burlingame
10. Canton-Galva

Girls:

1. Little River
2. Centralia
3. Quinter
4. Alma-Wabaunsee
5. Clifton-Clyde
6. Jetmore-Hodgeman County
7. Troy
8. Frankfort
9. Montezuma-South Gray
10. Mankato-Rock Hills

1A Div. 2

Boys:

1. Axtell
2. Hanover
3. Cunningham
4. McPherson-Elyria Christian
5. Weskan
6. Hutchinson-Central Christian
7. Lebo
8. Wallace County-Sharon Springs
9. Logan-Palco
10. Victoria

Girls:

1. Hanover
2. Linn
3. Bucklin
4. Melvern-Marais des Cygnes Valley
5. Lebo
6. Bird City-Cheylin
7. Wallace County-Sharon Springs
8. Atica
9. Axtell
10. Hutchinson-Central Christian