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High school boys basketball: Top 20

it suprised me to see Jordan ranked at number 18. They are a very good team with a lot of returning players. They were sloppy against Park City but will pick it up as the season goes on. Watch out for Jordan. they have a tough pre-season schedule and could make some noise with wins over Davis, Bingham, PG and West Jordan. I'm looking forward to watching them this season.

oh yeah, East has lets its program hit rock bottom.
They are worlds away from being competitive.
They have won less then 10 games in the past 4 years.
They would not be in the top half of the 2A Classification.

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME!

why is this article called the top 25 when I see only 20 teams?
olympus lost in the first round at state last year and their jv team wasn't great either. why are they ranked so high-?? lots of better 4a schools and where is Viewmont- who went deep into state finals last year?
Davis was a VERY close second to lone peak last year but they are behind schools with much worse records last year.
I think actual records this year will be big surprises to the utah county biased voters!!

ok springville took lone peak to OT and they aren't even ranked above teams that haven't played a game, that makes alot of sense

Dixie should be in the top 10!

I guess you can pick who ever you want when all teams are 0-0.

Are you serious? Pine View got all of it's younger groups pillaged by Desert Hills and their senior class, what hasn't already been depleted by SEASON LONG injuries, is mediocre at best. You can't even base this ranking on good coaching since their old head coach, amazing as he is, jumped ship for Desert Hills and their new coach is an unknown entity. Pine View will be lucky to win 2 games in Region 9 including the games against the much improved 3A side of the region. This ranking has to be based on their schools name, not on fact.

how can a top 25 ranking with only 20 teams mentioned make any sense--don't worry--as usual the real rankings will be figured out come state tournament time.looks like they only looked at southern salt county and further south with an silly ranking for Olympus who lost in the first round at state last year.
these are the same writers who last year ranked sky view in the top ten based on having one tall dude who never lived up to his potential so what do you expect?? these dudes probably picked hillary c to win the election in pre season polls.!

Let the season begin............we all agree it will be determined in the end...keep reading..ha

I don't think the Tyler Haws show can keep LP un-beaten this season.

Really :-) It is a little different when you are not playing with 3 other D1 players over 6'7. They will not even come close to being undefeated!

dixie will dominate region 9 this year are you sure you didnt rank pine views football team in the basketball rankings

We all but punked Tyler Haws and Lone Peak and we get no run at all? Coach Kitchen and the boys get no respect, but when they win State they'll get some love. It's a travesty that Dan Foster hasn't been offered a D-1 full ride scholarship yet. He's the most versatile big in Utah county. And Mortensen will be playing in the NBA some day. Yeah, he's skinny, but so is CJ Miles and Ronnie Price. And he's been playing varsity ball since 9th grade. That should tell you something.

Go Devils! Win State!

Regardless if he can keep the team undefeated he is still the class of the state as far as boys basketball players go. He is also a class act off the court so even though we have to play against them I wish him all the luck in the world. Too bad he didn't choose to play at Utah State though, at least he would've had a chance to win in the NCAA tournament.

Yeah Haws is the man and will take his team as far as he can. I'm sure they have other player who will step up. It takes 5 you know.

Really? A chance to win the NCAA tournament with Utah St.? you've got to be joking. I know BYU hasn't won a tourney game in years but I still think their chances to win it all are better than Utah St.

5A and 4A champions will come from Utah County again.

Can you say 3-Peat?

If there is an upset in 4A it will come from Springvile this year.

5A, LP is king until someone takes it away. I watched the LP-Springvile game. Shooting 3 pointers in a big arena can present problems. They only made 2 (out of 15?). Look for that to greatly improve. Underestimate the other LP players at your own peril.

LP is not repeating. They downgraded at every position and by virtue of size, Haws will be playing out of position all year which will effect his ability to take games over consistently like he had to last week.
So save the 3-peat t-shirts for another year and another team.

I think the comment was that he would have a better chance to win a tournament game, not the entire tournament. USU will roll this Saturday!