Boys basketball rankings: Change sets up 1 vs. 2

With its 74-70 win over then-No. 2 Putnam City West at the Bartlesville Tournament last week, Broken Arrow jumped from No. 7 to No. 2 in this week’s OKRankings.com coaches’ poll for Class 6A.

That sets up a 1-vs.2 showdown tonight at Muskogee, where the top-ranked Roughers will try to hold onto the top spot. With its win at the Edmond Open, Edmond Santa Fe moved to the No. 3 spot, ahead of PC West in fourth and Putnam City in fifth.

That was a big win for BA, but I’ll have to see them win more than one big game to believe they’re a top-three team right now. They hit 16 3-pointers to beat PC West. You can’t count on shooting like that every night.

A couple other 6A teams to make big jumps this week were Norman North from 18th to 13th with its win at the Western Heights Invitational, and Choctaw, which took PC West to the wire last week. Edmond North also entered the rankings at No. 17.

No major changes in 5A, other than Ardmore and Carl Albert slipping a couple spots with losses over the weekend. Western Heights came into the poll at No. 17. I think they have a chance to be a pretty good team this year.

Star Spencer is back on top in Class 4A after giving the No. 1 ranking to Douglass last week. Both teams are still unbeaten, and that’ll be a fun battle to watch all year. Blanchard’s 11-point win over Bethany propelled it into the top 10 at the No. 9 spot and Tecumseh’s 6-0 start has it up to No. 12.

Bethel claimed the No. 1 spot in 3A, but the rest of the No. 1s held their rankings this week. Here are the full OKRankings.com top 20 polls:

Class 6A (previous ranking)
1 Muskogee (1)
2 Broken Arrow (7)
3 Edmond Santa Fe (4)
4 Putnam City West (2)
5 Putnam City (3)
6 Midwest City (6)
7 Union (5)
8 Edmond Memorial (8)
9 Southmoore (9)
10 Putnam City North (11)
11 Jenks (10)
12 Owasso (12)
13 Norman North (18)
14 Eisenhower (14)
15 Choctaw (20)
16 Del City (17)
17 Edmond North (-)
18 Enid (13)
19 Norman (15)
20 Bixby (-)

Class 5A
1 Memorial (Tulsa) (1)
2 Thomas Edison (2)
3 Booker T Washington (3)
4 Guthrie (4)
5 Bishop Kelley (10)
6 Capitol Hill (7)
7 Carl Albert (5)
8 Northwest Classen (9)
9 Ardmore (6)
10 El Reno (11)
11 East Central (8)
12 Macarthur (14)
13 Central (Tulsa) (12)
14 Claremore (15)
15 Southeast (13)
16 Duncan (18)
17 Western Heights (-)
18 Altus (16)
19 Grove (-)
20 Coweta (20)