How a state panel of sports writers and broadcasters rates Ohio high school boys basketball teams in the fourth of seven weekly Associated Press polls, by OHSAA divisions, with won-lost record and total points (first-place votes in parentheses):
DIVISION I
1, Cols. Northland (23) 13-1 298
2, Pickerington Cent. (1) 14-1 229
3, Cin. La Salle (3) 16-1 227
4, Powell Olentangy Liberty (2) 16-0 199
5, Mentor (2) 13-1 186
6, Cin. Moeller 13-2 127
7, Cols. Walnut Ridge 14-0 120
8, Cle. Hts. 11-1 88
9, Tol. Whitmer 13-2 50
10, Lakewood St. Edward 8-5 34
Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Mason 21. 11, Cle. St. Ignatius 21. 13, Tol. St. John's 18. 14, Norwalk 14.
DIVISION II
1, Day. Dunbar (20) 15-0 296
2, Plain City Jonathan Alder (2) 13-0 254
3, Alliance (3) 16-0 234
4, Defiance (2) 14-0 203
5, Franklin (2) 15-0 147
6, Cin. Taft (2) 11-4 142
7, East Liverpool 12-2 115
8, Vincent Warren 11-2 75
9, Lexington 11-3 43
10, Akr. East 12-1 41
Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Day. Thurgood Marshall 31. 12, Mentor Lake Cath. 23. 13, Akr. SVSM 15. 14, Cle. Benedictine 12.
DIVISION III
1, Bloom-Carroll (12) 15-0 272
2, Cin. Summit Country Day (5) 15-0 245
3, Labrae (6) 17-0 236
4, Bedford St. Peter Chanel (7) 13-1 232
5, Chesapeake 14-1 178
6, Lima Cent. Cath. (1) 11-2 126
7, Creston Norwayne 13-1 111
8, Versailles 12-2 83
9, Portsmouth 15-2 78
10, Ironton 12-3 59
Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Chillicothe Huntington 13.
DIVISION IV
1, Berlin Hiland (30) 14-0 307
2, Ft. Recovery 13-1 239
3, Jackson Center 9-0 216
4, Edgerton (1) 13-0 191
5, Richmond Hts. 12-1 169
6, Newark Cath. 12-2 160
7, Cols. Africentric 13-2 124
8, Zanesville Rosecrans 10-3 69
9, Cle. VASJ 6-7 46
10, Malvern 12-3 35
Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Day. Jefferson 29. 12, Ada 23. 13, Leipsic 21.
