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Way to get back to the top, PG! But why is Lone Peak ranked ahead of Skyline?

I love you boys!!!

Just make sure you don't get too confidant.

Bingham jumped 5 spots after winning one game... thats impressive... gotta love the ranking system

Why is Lone Peak ranked ahead of Skyline? Because Lone Peak is better? I don't know seems pretty logical to me... Why do you think Skyline should be ranked ahead of Lone Peak is the real question. I would love to hear an explanation for that.

Please explain to me why PG, with wins over spanish fork and timpanogas, goes from #9 to #4? Are those impressive victories? They have lost 5 games and will lose their 6th to LP on friday. They are rated 4th? Orem has only lost two games, and beat spanish fork by 27 points and PG beat them by 8. Orem beat Timpanogas @ Timpanogas by 12 and PG won by 12 so why are they ranked so far ahead of orem who is 10th. Also Orem's two losses have come from #1 rated Provo, and a close game to timpview @ timpview where things just didnt go their way (refs) and only lost by 2.... doesn't make sense.

I can't wait to see someone on Alta step up as a leader on offense. Once this happens, Alta will be a much better team. Everyone needs to stop complaining about these rankings. They mean nothing. Win games, that means something. Go Alta!

Maybe next year B.R. should just schedule all non-league games???? You just play the schedule that you have. By the way maybe these 5A teams should be ranked higher than Provo, after all they are only playing 4A teams!......Same logic?

The D News Ranking system is not a good predictor of the states teams. PG should not be ranked third in 5A especially after only winnin two games over very mediocre teams last week. Does anyone remember how PG was dismantled by Riverton? How are they ranked above them especially with more losses. On the same note, how is Bingham ranked above Riverton when Riverton beat them? The system has no merits and a Kindergartner pulling names out of a hat could come up with a better ranking sceme! PG will lose this week which will knock them down again (or maybe not with how these rankings go)!

OK... so Davis loses a close one on the road against a really solid Clearfield squad and they drop 8 spots from 6th to 14th. Riverton, on the other hand, loses a tough OT game on their home floor to a not-so-solid, in fact pretty bad, Copper Hills team and they only slide 2 spots to #6. Nice one Dnews.

Lone Peak's only loss in the state of Utah was @ Provo in double OT. Its pretty obvious right now who the best team is in 5A.

Who cares just go out and support your team, why do the rankings have to be exactly how you think they should be? So you can brag about it at work or chrch??? Get Real!! And just enjoy the season!

Let me start by saying that I am not a CH fan in any way, shape or form. They are alot better team than any one in region 3 would have thought at the beginning of the year. If you take a close look at Davis you will see that they have only beaten 1 ranked team in the 5 games they have had against ranked teams. I think you should be happy with the ranking you have if you look at how they have played against randed teams. Clearfield is not much better they also have only 1 win in 3 games against ranked teams. A 25% winning record is not that good. CH has that percentage also. Davis and Clearfield each have more winns than CH only because you play in a week region. If every team played cupcakes they would all have 11-3 and 10-4 records. Case in point 6 of those 7 loses are against ranked teams

D. News rankings are flat out bad. It seems to be the same mentalilty as the individuals that are running the BCS! After Riverton beats Bingham this Friday for the third time in a row will the D. News/BCS logic put Riverton at #10? Come on, PG at #4. Right now Jordan, West, or Bear River could destroy PG, straight up!

If you don't like what you read about the rankings stay out of the comments section and just take your team flag and go wave it on Friday night!

Riverton lost at Copper Hills. All these rankings are for is to sell ad space it does not mean anything. It all gets settle on the court at the state tornament.

I am going to agree that the P.G. ranking is a joke! Their league is so weak this year that P.G. is almost guaranteed 6 wins just by playing AF, Timp, and Spanish Fork. They cannot beat Lone Peak, and they have proven that they cannot beat quality teams from other 5A leagues. (Other than Alta, they have lost every game against a DNews ranked quality opponent in the top 15.) Not only are they ranked too high, but they are not deserving of a top 10 ranking in my opinion. Riverton absolutely dismantled P.G. and they are ranked ahead of Riverton? It makes no sense. Oh wait, I think P.G. has a guy going to Washington.... ah, now it makes sense!

Wow I have to agree. Riverton has beaten Bingham and PG but both are ranked ahead of Riverton. It might be because Riverton is more team players than individuals. The D. News loves the teams that have an individual that will shoot 100 times a game to score 30 points. PG has been beaten by 5 teams that are ranked and only beaten two ranked teams, not very immpressive for the #3 ranked team in the state.

Watch out the jags are going to start clicking come tourney time and i still see them as a contender in the tournament race.

Riverton lost at Copper Hills, in fact to a very good Copper Hills team. Why don't you come watch them play before you make assumptions about how good they are. Don't worry though, you'll get that chance. CH will take the deceiving 4th seed (seeing as how tough the region is compared to region 1) from region 3 and play the 1st seed from region 1, which will either be Davis or Clearfield. I smell an upset coming.....
Riverton did not have a bad game, they played very well. This was a hard fought game between two very good teams and Copper Hills happened to come out on top. If you are going to make an argument between Davis, why don't you refer to Riverton's loss at home to Viewmont, and very close wins at Hillcrest and Weber? Those are alot more telling than the OT loss to CH.

Amen Big Bear, Amen!