1/31/2023 basketball Edit

VHSL Hoops Top Tens - Entering 1-31-23 Games

Kareem Stagg and the Oscar Smith Tigers have lost only once on the season - to a King's Fork squad that is the top-ranked team in Class 4 - as the month of January draws to a close (Matthew Hatfield, VirginiaPreps.com)

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A total of 11 schools dropped out of our Top Tens from the past week of the 60 that we rank. Many of which have either won a State Championship or played in the title game in recent years, such as South County, L.C. Bird, Smithfield, Petersburg and East Rockingham.

Of course, there is still time for them to pop back in the rankings before the regular season concludes as we hit the final Tuesday of January 2023.

The 14th Annual VirginiaPreps.com Basketball Classic comes to Virginia Wesleyan University this weekend - February 4th - with several ranked programs in action. It'll be a good measuring stick for some of the public schools taking on high-caliber competition against private schools in four of the matchups, plus a couple of Northern Virginia publics see where they stack up against two of the better teams from Tidewater.

The lineup for the event is as follows...

11 AM - Kellam vs. Nansemond-Suffolk Academy
12:30 PM - Western Branch vs. Peninsula Catholic
2 PM - Oscar Smith vs. Washington-Liberty
3:30 PM - Menchville vs. W.T. Woodson
5 PM - Lake Taylor vs. Kecoughtan
6:30 PM - Green Run vs. Catholic
8 PM - Maury vs. Cape Henry

Make sure to keep it tuned to VirginiaPreps.com and our Twitter feed - @VaPrepsClassic - for updates and links from the event, including Full Game Video later available for subscribers to watch.

You can see the full rankings below...

* Indicates record including Eastern District Tournament games

Class 6 Top Ten:

Rank	Last Week	School	Record (entering 1/31)
1	1	Hayfield	16-1
2	2	Patriot	18-2
3	3	Battlefield	19-1
4	4	Oscar Smith	15-1
5	5	Manchester	17-1
6	6	Landstown	14-5
7	8	South Lakes	16-3
8	HM	Potomac	15-4
9	10	Fairfax	14-4
10	HM	James River-Midlothian	13-3

Dropped Out: #7 George Marshall (15-3) and #9 South County (10-8)

Honorable Mention:
Edison (15-3)
Madison (14-5)
Alexandria City (14-4)
Gainesville (15-5)
Washington-Liberty (12-6)

Greg Maynard, who has more than 500 victories in his career at the helm of the Albemarle Patriots, has a team that is thinking about making another State Tournament trip (Matthew Hatfield)

Class 5 Top Ten:

Rank	Last Week	School	Record (entering 1/31)
1	1	Menchville	16-0
2	3	Patrick Henry-Roanoke	17-2
3	4	Woodside	13-4
4	2	Kecoughtan	13-3
5	5	Albemarle	16-2
6	6	Norview	16-4; 13-4
7	8	Maury	14-4; 12-3*
8	HM	William Fleming	13-5
9	7	Glen Allen	14-4
10	HM	Princess Anne	14-5

Dropped Out: #9 Massaponax (14-3) and #10 L.C. Bird (11-6)

Honorable Mention:
Potomac Falls (13-5)
Highland Springs (11-6)
Riverside (11-7)
Stone Bridge (11-6)

Class 4 Top Ten:

Rank	Last Week	School	Record (entering 1/31)
1	1	King's Fork	13-3
2	2	Varina	13-4
3	3	E.C. Glass	15-2
4	4	Tuscarora	16-2
5	5	Western Albemarle	15-2
6	6	Loudoun County	13-5
7	HM	King George	15-3
8	HM	Sherando	14-5
9	8	Jefferson Forest	13-4
10	10	Matoaca	12-5

Dropped Out: #7 Smithfield (16-4) and #9 Great Bridge (11-5)

Honorable Mention:
Loudoun Valley (11-6)
GW-Danville (12-7)
Broad Run (12-6)
Hampton (9-7)
Grafton (14-6)

Class 3 Top Ten:

Rank	Last Week	School	Record (entering 1/31)
1	1	Northside	18-0
2	2	Cave Spring	14-4
3	3	Spotswood	16-2
4	4	Hopewell	14-2
5	5	Skyline	17-0
6	6	Tunstall	18-1
7	10	Abingdon	13-5
8	7	Lake Taylor	10-6; 10-5*
9	NR	Lafayette	17-3
10	9	Fluvanna	13-4

Dropped Out: #8 Petersburg (11-6)

Honorable Mention:
Staunton (13-4)
Lord Botetourt (11-7)
William Monroe (12-5)
Wilson Memorial (11-6)

Class 2 Top Ten:

Rank	Last Week	School	Record (entering 1/31)
1	1	John Marshall	19-0
2	3	Brunswick	13-3
3	4	Floyd County	14-4
4	2	Radford	13-2
5	5	Virginia High	14-4
6	7	Ridgeview	14-4
7	10	Greensville	11-5
8	6	Madison County	13-5
9	HM	Glenvar	12-7
10	NR	Strasburg	11-6

Dropped Out: #10 Strasburg (10-5)

Honorable Mention:
Nottoway (12-4)
Nandua (11-4)
Buckingham (13-5)
Clarke County (11-7)

Troy Henderson and the Red Devils are rolling at 17-0 overall and putting up more than 70 points per game as a team (Matthew Hatfield, VirginiaPreps.com)

Class 1 Top Ten:

Rank	Last Week	School	Record (entering 1/31)
1	1	Lancaster	17-0
2	3	Franklin	17-2
3	4	George Wythe	15-2
4	2	Auburn	15-4
5	5	Altavista	13-3
6	6	Narrows	16-3
7	HM	Chilhowie	14-3
8	10	Middlesex	16-2
9	7	Twin Springs	12-6
10	HM	Eastside	10-8

Dropped Out: #8 Northampton (13-6) and #9 Lebanon (15-3)

Honorable Mention:
Carver Academy (16-2)
Honaker (12-7)
Westmoreland (9-6)
Bland County (13-6)

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