Published Nov 30, 2021
Final VHSL Hoops Top Tens for 2020-21
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Matthew Hatfield  •  VirginiaPreps
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It was one of the more peculiar seasons for Virginia High School Basketball. Certainly COVID-19 has made for stranger times during 2020-21, but with more than 70 schools opting out of winter sports for safety reasons, the field shrunk. In addition, title games were played in High School gymnasiums as opposed to at the VCU Siegel Center in Richmond, the normal site more well over a decade for the title games.

Of course, back in 2019-20, only two teams in John Marshall Boys and Gate City Girls got to win sole state titles. The other five classifications for boys and girls hoops settled for Co-State Champs as the virus halted the remainder of the Finals at VCU.

Centreville was the lone program of the six State Champs on the Boys side to repeat, while Stone Bridge erased a 19-point deficit to win hardware in Class 5, Smithfield overcame a bit smaller deficit to win Class 4 in Winchester, Hopewell held off Abingdon on the road for the Class 3 title, Union protected home court against East Rock in Class 2, and Parry McCluer brought another state title for its veteran Head Coach who happened to beat his old school.

See the Final Playoff Brackets for 2020-21 Here


Class 6 Hoops Top Ten:
Dropped Out: #7 Riverbend (11-1)
RankPreseasonSchoolRecord

1

5

Centreville

14-2

2

3

Potomac

13-1

3

NR

Hayfield

13-2

4

1

South County

14-2

5

7

Landstown

5-2

6

10

Thomas Dale

6-1

7

NR

Madison

11-6

8

HM

South Lakes

14-1

9

4

Lake Braddock

11-3

10

6

Patriot

12-3

Honorable Mention:
John Champe (12-4)

Opted Out:
2. Western Branch
9. Oscar Smith

* Note - Chesapeake Public Schools had a condensed spring season following the winter season, but its teams did not compete in the VHSL Playoffs.


Class 5 Hoops Top Ten:
RankPreseasonSchoolRecord

1

NR

Stone Bridge

16-1

2

1

Green Run

9-1

3

3

Patrick Henry-Roanoke

8-2

4

2

L.C. Bird

12-3

5

NR

Manchester

12-2

6

HM

William Fleming

5-2

7

HM

Kempsville

6-2

8

NR

Riverside

10-5

9

7

Rock Ridge

9-5

10

5

Albemarle

7-4

Honorable Mention:
Salem-VB (4-3)

Opted Out:
3. Varina
4. Kecoughtan
6. Maury
8. Norview
9. Douglas Freeman


Class 4 Hoops Top Ten:
Dropped Out: #9 GW=Danville (3-3)
RankPreseasonSchoolRecord

1

9

Smithfield

10-0

2

NR

Handley

11-1

3

10

Loudoun County

15-3

4

NR

Eastern View

13-3

5

3

Halifax County

3-3

6

NR

Courtland

13-3

7

NR

Grafton

6-2

8

7

Monacan

9-4

9

4

Dominion

10-5

10

NR

Hanover

7-3

Honorable Mention:
Blacksburg (4-4)

Opted Out:
1. King's Fork
2. Menchville
6. Woodrow Wilson
8. Jefferson Forest


Class 3 Hoops Top Ten:
Dropped Out: #10 Spotswood (6-2)
RankPreseasonSchoolRecord

1

4

Hopewell

8-0

2

10

Abingdon

14-2

3

3

Northside

10-1

4

1

Charlottesville

8-1

5

HM

Liberty Christian

12-2

6

5

Cave Spring

7-3

7

9

Independence

12-5

8

7

Skyline

12-2

9

2

Western Albemarle

6-1

10

NR

Petersburg

8-3

Honorable Mention:
Lord Botetourt (10-4)
William Monroe (9-3)

Opted Out:
7. Armstrong


Class 2 Hoops Top Ten:
Dropped Out: #7 Strasburg (7-4) and #9 Madison County (8-7)
RankPreseasonSchoolRecord

1

4

Union

16-3

2

2

Radford

15-1

3

1

East Rockingham

10-3

4

9

Gate City

11-6

5

7

Graham

15-1

6

5

Floyd County

9-5

7

HM

King William

4-3

8

HM

Staunton

9-5

9

NR

Fort Chiswell

7-4

10

HM

Page County

11-4

Opted Out:
1. John Marshall
3. Dan River
6. Brunswick
7. Martinsville


Class 1 Hoops Top Ten:
Dropped Out: #6 Honaker (9-5)
RankPreseasonSchoolRecord

1

2

Parry McCluer

12-1

2

NR

J.I. Burton

14-3

3

9

Altavista

9-5

4

1

Auburn

5-2

5

6

Mathews

9-3

6

4

Grundy

10-5

7

NR

Holston

12-6

8

5

Twin Springs

14-4

9

3

West Point

5-3

10

HM

George Wythe

5-2

Opted Out:
7. Colonial Beach
10. Lancaster



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