2013-14 News basketball polls
State classification in parentheses; first-place votes in brackets; *-tie in points.BOYS LARGE SCHOOLS
Team (Class) Record Pts. LW
1. Canisius (A) [10] 9-1 100 1
2. Clarence (AA) 7-1 83 2
3. McKinley (A-1) 5-1 77 6
4. Bishop Timon-St. Jude (A) 7-4 67 4
5. St. Joe’s (A) 6-6 65 3
6. Williamsville North (AA) 5-3 46 5
7. Jamestown (AA) 5-3 45 7
8. Amherst (A-2) 6-1 35 8
9. Sweet Home (A-1) 4-3 17 10
10. Kenmore West (AA) 7-2 11 9
Others receiving votes (with point): Lockport (AA) 4.
BOYS SMALL SCHOOLS
Team (Class) Record Pts. LW
1. East (B-2) [9] 6-0 99 1
2. Olean (B-1) [1] 7-2 90 2
3. St. Mary’s (B) 6-3 77 3
4. Nichols (B) 7-4 66 4
5. Park (B) 5-7 51 6
6. Middle Early College (C-1) 3-2 50 5
7. Fredonia (B-1) 6-3 46 *7
8. Silver Creek (C-1) 6-3 29 *7
9. Barker (C-1) 7-0 23 9
10. Sherman (D) 8-0 14 10
Others receiving votes (with points): CSAT (B-2) 3, Health Sciences (B-2) 1, Holland (C-1) 1.
GIRLS LARGE SCHOOLS
Team (Class) Record Pts. LW
1. Cardinal O’Hara [10] 9-0 100 1
2. Jamestown (AA) 8-1 86 2
3. Frontier (AA) 6-0 80 3
4. Niagara Falls (AA) 6-1 67 6
5. Lockport (AA) 4-2 51 4
6. Nardin 5-4 37 8
7. Hamburg (A-1) 3-2 28 5
8. Iroquois (A-2) 5-4 21 *9
9. Sacred Heart 4-3 20 8
10. Williamsville North* (AA) 2-5 15 9
10. Williamsville South* (A-1) 3-1 15 NR
Others receiving votes (with points): Orchard Park (AA) 10, Amherst (A-2) 6, Mount Mercy 5, East Aurora (A-2) 3, Niagara-Wheatfield (AA) 2, Williamsville East (A-1) 2, Maryvale (A-2) 1, Starpoint (A-2) 1.
GIRLS SMALL SCHOOLS
Team (Class) Record Pts. LW
1. Chautauqua Lake (C-2) [2] 6-1 65 2
2. Tapestry (C-1) [4] 7-2 53 1
3. Randolph (C-2) 7-2 44 3
4. Fredonia (B-1) 6-1 32 7
5. Immaculata* 5-3 26 5
5. Wilson* (B-2) 5-2 26 4
7. Pine Valley (D) 4-1 20 8
8. Christian Central 7-2 15 10
9. Cleveland Hill (B-2) 7-1 13 6
10. Silver Creek (C-1) 6-1 10 NR
Others receiving votes (with points): Salamanca (B-2) 8, Allegany-Limestone (C-1) 6, Holland (C-1) 6, Tonawanda (B-1) 5, Wilson (B-2) 5, Barker (C-1) 4, Sherman (D) 2.
How The News voted
Want to see why The News voted some schools ahead of others? Keith McShea explains his large and small school boys basketball ballots in the weekly How The News voted post at the Prep Talk blog at buffalonews.com.Coming attractions
• One of the biggest regular season meetings in boys basketball has No. 1 small school East hosting No. 3 large school and defending Class A state public school champion McKinley at 6 p.m. Wednesday. McKinley has gone undefeated in winning the Yale Cup the last two seasons and has a 27-game win streak in league play. Its last loss was to Bennett (57-54 on Feb. 15, 2011) in its next-to-last game of the 2011 Yale Cup season. It went 14-0 to win the cup in 2012 and was 12-0 last season. East will visit McKinley in this year’s regular-season finale Feb. 13. … On a busy Friday, there is a key Monsignor Martin small school battle as No. 4 Nichols visits No. 6 Park at 6:30. At 7:30, No. 6 large school Williamsville North plays at No. 2 Clarence; Clarence won the teams’ first meeting.• Saturday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Classic will again be hosted by City Honors and will include some key boys basketball matchups, with the marquee game pitting last year’s co-No. 1 large school champions against each other when current No. 1 Canisius plays McKinley at 2 p.m. The event starts with Hutch-Tech and St. Francis at 11 a.m., followed by East against No. 9 large school Sweet Home at 12:30 p.m.
• In girls basketball, there are a pair of key ECIC I games this week, including No. 3 large school Frontier at No. 2 Jamestown tonight at 7:30. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, co-No. 10 Willliamsville North hosts a team that was just behind it in the poll in Orchard Park. … No. 1 Cardinal O’Hara hosts No. 7 Hamburg at 6 p.m. Thursday then heads to Erie, Pa., for the Martin Luther King Basketball Showcase where it will play Franklin, Pa., on Saturday and Erie’s McDowell on Sunday.
• Two of the top boys hockey teams in Division II of the Western New York Varsity Hockey Federation – Kenmore East and Williamsville East – meet Saturday at 1 p.m.
• Wrestling’s ECIC Championships will be held at Lake Shore on Friday and Saturday.
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