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High School Boys Basketball Top 15: Week 5

By Edgar Walker, on January 9th, 2012

Welcome to the fifth installment of BSR’s weekly top 15 rankings.

Mount St. Joseph’s continues to hold the top spot in the rankings, but after their loss to underachieving Calvert Hall on Friday evening, the Gaels’ perch atop Baltimore has begun to dip.

I know it feels like I say it every week, but now we are really getting into the meat of conference play, where the contenders separate themselves from the pretenders. Several highly-anticipated league contests this week should lead to some major shake-ups in the rankings come next Monday.

As will be the case all season, these rankings reward results, taking into account opponent strength and margin of victory/loss. Teams will not be ranked highly because of the hype or publicity surrounding their teams, but rather the consistency and impressiveness of their play. Rankings will typically be released every Monday.

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See past rankings: Preseason || Week 1 || Week 2 || Week 3 || Week 4

High School Boys Basketball Top 15: Week 4

By Edgar Walker, on January 2nd, 2012

Welcome to the fourth installment of BSR’s weekly top 15 rankings.

This week sees Mount St. Joseph’s keeping the top spot in the rankings, despite picking up their first loss of the season in a holiday tournament. In fact, several of the metro area’s top teams lost while participating in tournaments over the break, and those losses have been reflected in this week’s rankings.

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See past rankings: Preseason || Week 1 || Week 2 || Week 3

High School Boys Basketball Top 15: Week 3

By Edgar Walker, on December 27th, 2011

Before we dive into the rankings, I’d like to apologize for the delay in posting them. I decided it would be best to let the holiday fervor die down before posting.

The top teams in this weeks’ rankings remain virtually unchanged, but the middle and lower parts of the top 15 will see a lot of changes. A couple new teams have been added, and the position of certain teams has changed quite a bit. It seems that at this point in the season, we’re starting to see which teams are a bit more consistent. Those teams will continue to hang around in the rankings.

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See past rankings: Preseason || Week 1 || Week 2

High School Boys Basketball Top 15: Week 2

By Edgar Walker, on December 19th, 2011

After a great week of high school basketball in the Baltimore area, our rankings will see a major shake-up. Several ranked teams fell, and a few unranked teams staked their claim for a spot in the top 15.

As will be the case all season, these rankings reward results, taking into account opponent strength and margin of victory/loss. Teams will not be ranked highly because of the hype or upside surrounding their teams, rather the consistency and impressiveness of their play. Rankings are released every Monday.

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See past rankings: Preseason || Week 1

High School Boys Basketball Top 15: Week 1

By Edgar Walker, on December 12th, 2011

Welcome to the first edition of the Baltimore Sports Report top 15 high school boys basketball rankings for the Baltimore metro area.

While most rankings tend to be about hype and potential, these rankings are all about results and consistency. As a result, you’ll see a lot of fluctuation, as a team could go up several spots with a big win one week, and drop completely out of the top 15 the next week after a bad loss. With that said, the first couple weeks of rankings rely a bit on hype and reputation, until a nice sample size of games have been accumulated.

We released our preseason rankings in the high school boys basketball preview, with Aquille Carr’s Patterson Clippers holding the top spot. The top 15 will be posted each Monday, with a short write-up following the rankings.

Baltimore Area High School Basketball Preview

By Edgar Walker, on December 5th, 2011

Aquille Carr (#3) and Patterson lead BSR's high school basketball rankings.

Following our coverage of this weekend’s high school state football championships, we now move on to the fast-approaching high school basketball season with our short, yet informative area preview. The preview will cover the Baltimore metro area, which is rife with basketball talent, and produces most of Maryland’s state championship teams on a yearly basis. Additionally, several top NBA players played their high school basketball in this area, including Carmelo Anthony (Towson Catholic) and Rudy Gay (Eastern Tech, Archbishop Spalding). The “metro” area includes Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Harford County, Cecil County, Howard County, and Anne Arundel County.

The preview includes rankings of the area’s top 15 teams, preseason All-Metro selections, some notable games to put on the calendar, and predictions for the area’s major conferences, and Maryland’s four state championships.