Tennessee AP Girls Basketball Poll Rankings

released January 9, 2012

The Associated Press' Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee's three Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and broadcasters. With first-place votes in parentheses, records through January 9, total points based on 10 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 10th-place vote:

CLASS AAA
School/ Record/ Points
†1. Memphis Central (1) •••8-3 129 ••
†2. Science Hill (5) ••17-0 119 ••
†3. Riverdale (8) ••13-3 110 ••
†4. Bradley Central ••15-1 •97 ••
†5. Clarksville (1) ••20-0 •94 ••
†6. Mt. Juliet ••16-2 •67 ••
†7. Memphis Overton ••10-2 •45 ••
†8. Blackman ••14-1 •39 ••
†9. Morristown East ••15-3 •32 ••
†10. Oakland ••13-2 •31 ••
Others receiving 12 or more points: Whitehaven 30. Southwind 28. Clarksville NE 18. Brentwood 13.

CLASS AA
†1. Upperman (10) ••18-1 151 ••
†2. Obion County (4) ••17-1 124 ••
†3. Livingston Academy (2) ••17-2 122 ••
†4. Grainger ••15-2 •75 ••
†5. Dyersburg ••17-2 •63 ••
†6. McMinn Central •••9-4 •62 ••
†7. Creek Wood ••15-3 •40 ••
†8. Knoxville Fulton ••11-2 •39 ••
†9. Cannon County ••16-4 •34 ••
†10. Westmoreland ••14-1 •28 ••
Others receiving 12 or more points: Manassas 25. CPA 25. York Institute 24.

CLASS A
†1. Lake County (5) ••12-2 126 ••
†2. Moore County (3) ••18-3 111 ••
†3. Madison Academic (2) ••16-2 105 ••
†4. Jackson County (4) ••13-6 104 ••
†5. Clarkrange ••15-3 •92 ••
†6. Cloudland (1) ••17-3 •86 ••
†7. Summertown (1) ••12-2 •80 ••
†8. Collinwood ••13-4 •36 ••
†9. Houston County ••13-2 •31 ••
†10. Clay County ••13-3 •27 ••
Others receiving 12 or more points: Tellico Plains 20. Middleton 19. Hampton 12.

DIVISION 2
†1. Girls Prep (9) ••14-2 130 ••
†2. Briarcrest (2) ••13-3 117 ••
†3. Knoxville Webb ••13-4 •92 ••
†4. Ensworth (1) •••9-4 •75 ••
†5. Franklin Road Academy (2) ••17-3 •71 ••
†6. Fayette Academy ••12-1 •63 ••
†7. Ezell-Harding ••14-2 •57 ••
†8. Pope John Paul II ••11-3 •48 ••
†9. Jackson Christian ••12-2 •35 ••
†10. SBEC ••10-2 •12 ••
Others receiving 12 or more points: None.

All Associated Press members in Tennessee are eligible to participate in the high school basketball poll. Those who voted for this week's poll are: TNPrepHoops; The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville); Cleveland Daily Banner; The Daily Herald (Columbia); Cookeville Herald-Citizen; State Gazette (Dyersburg); Elizabethton Star; The Greeneville Sun; The Jackson Sun; Johnson City Press; The Knoxville News Sentinel; The Commercial Appeal (Memphis); The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro; Union City Daily Messenger; WCMT, Tennessean (Nashville).