Due to COVID guidelines and a shortened season, district tournaments won’t be played in Class 3A-2A-1A boys’ basketball this year so playoff teams will be selected through new criteria this year.  League champions earn automatic bids with the rest of the field chosen at-large through a formula combining polls from CHSAA, RPI, Packard and MaxPreps.  For the first time this season, Colorado Preps has combined those rankings to give our readers a look at which teams are in good shape for a post-season berth and which still have some work to do.

For our rankings, teams are awarded one point for each first place vote, two for second and so through on through the top 24 in each class.  Teams not ranked in the top 24 of a service are given 25 points for that poll to balance out the numbers.  Please note these standings are highly unofficial as CHSAA uses a percentage basis to develop their overall rankings at the end of the season.  We simply award a team points based on their individual standing in the respective polls.

24 teams qualify for the playoffs in each of the three classes this year.  State brackets will be released on Monday March 8th with first round games set to start the next day.  The top eight seeds in each bracket earn first round byes.  We list every team that reached the top 24 in any of the four polls below.

Also note that teams with fewer than four games are not ranked by MaxPreps so that could change future polls as programs continue to make up some early games lost to COVID or weather.

 

CLASS 1A BOYS CHSAA RPI PACKARD MAXPREPS TOTAL
1 Belleview Christian 1 1 1 1 4
2 Cheraw 3 3 8 2 16
3 Merino 5 5 2 6 18
4 Primero 4 7 5 3 19
5 DeBeque 2 4 7 7 20
6 Denver Jewish Day 10 2 6 5 23
7 Evangelical Christian 6 6 12 4 28
8 Haxtun 8 9 13 8 38
9 Sangre De Cristo 12 11 10 10 43
10 Eads 13 16 4 13 46
11 Granada 9 17 9 12 47
12 Caprock Academy 15 8 15 11 49
13 Simla 17 10 22 9 58
14 Cheyenne Wells 16 15 18 15 64
15 Mile High Academy 7 19 14 25 65
16 Flatirons Academy 11 21 20 14 66
17 Genoa Hugo 18 14 19 16 67
18 Denver Waldorf 19 25 3 25 72
19 Briggsdale 14 18 24 17 73
20 Kim/Branson 23 12 21 18 74
21 Longmont Christian 25 22 11 21 79
22 Rocky Mtn Lutheran 20 25 17 20 82
Fleming 25 13 25 19 82
24 Dove Creek 25 25 16 25 91
25 Cotopaxi 25 20 25 23 93
26 Kit Carson 21 25 25 25 96
27 McClave 22 25 25 23 95
28 Denver Academy of Torah 25 23 25 25 98
Hi Plains 25 25 23 25 98
30 Springfield 24 25 25 25 99
Elbert 25 24 25 25 99
CLASS 2A BOYS CHSAA RPI PACKARD MAXPREPS TOTAL
1 Wray 2 1 1 1 5
2 Limon 1 4 2 2 9
3 Peyton 7 2 7 3 19
4 Mancos 3 7 5 5 20
Sanford 5 3 8 4 20
6 Yuma 6 5 4 6 21
7 Denver Christian 4 11 6 8 29
8 Holly 8 9 13 7 37
9 Meeker 12 13 10 9 44
10 Crested Butte 14 8 15 10 47
11 Wiggins 10 12 16 11 49
Sedgwick County 11 14 11 13 49
13 Holyoke 18 10 12 12 52
14 Thomas MacLaren 23 6 3 25 57
15 Monte Vista 17 17 14 17 65
16 Fowler 9 25 17 19 70
17 Lyons 24 16 18 15 73
18 Ignacio 13 21 19 22 75
19 Center 25 15 25 14 79
20 Byers 20 19 25 16 80
21 Atlas Prep 25 25 9 24 83
22 Golden View Classical 25 18 25 18 86
23 West Grand 16 22 25 25 88
Del Norte 22 25 21 20 88
25 Soroco 15 25 25 25 90
26 Clear Creek 21 23 24 23 91
27 Lake County 25 20 22 25 92
28 Gilpin County 19 25 25 25 94
29 Heritage Christian 25 25 20 25 95
30 Swallows Charter 25 25 25 21 96
31 Vail Christian 25 25 23 25 98
32 Calhan 25 24 25 25 99
CLASS 3A BOYS CHSAA RPI PACKARD MAXPREPS TOTAL
1 St Mary’s 1 1 1 1 4
2 Colorado Academy 7 2 2 4 15
3 Manitou Springs 3 4 9 2 18
4 Sterling 4 9 4 3 20
5 Centauri 5 11 8 7 31
6 Englewood 13 5 6 10 34
7 Lutheran 2 16 3 16 37
8 Highland 12 10 7 11 40
9 Coal Ridge 11 8 14 9 42
10 Aspen 21 3 16 5 45
11 Resurrection Christian 8 13 11 14 46
12 Brush 20 6 20 6 52
13 Strasburg 15 12 13 13 53
14 Pinnacle 14 7 25 8 54
15 Manual 9 24 5 23 61
Kent Denver 10 19 15 17 61
17 Salida 19 14 18 12 63
18 Buena Vista 16 15 19 15 65
19 Faith Christian 6 25 10 25 66
20 CS Christian 17 21 12 18 68
21 Eaton 18 25 17 25 85
Gunnison 25 20 21 19 85
23 Alamosa 23 18 25 21 87
24 Estes Park 24 23 22 22 91
Moffat County 25 17 25 24 91
26 Bennett 25 22 25 20 92
27 University 22 25 24 25 96
28 Eagle Ridge Academy 25 25 23 25 98