Final RVA Sports Network Top 10 Basketball Polls

The regular season is complete, the playoffs are underway, so it is time to release our final RVA Sports Network Top 10 Boys and Girls High School Basketball Polls. Some notes:

--Our #1 teams, the Monacan girls and L.C. Bird boys, went wire-to-wire from the preseason poll over Thanksgiving weekend, to today's final poll.

--Our #2 girls team, Highland Springs, also went wire-to-wire, with their third straight unbeaten regular season.

--Six boys teams and eight girls teams listed in our preseason polls are ranked in the final survey, with the biggest risers from the group during the season being the Hermitage boys and J.R. Tucker girls, the Tigers also going unbeaten for the first time in program history.

--One team, the Manchester boys, make their season debut in the Top 10 in the final poll.

FINAL TOP 10 POLLS (Preseason Rank, Postseason Position in Parentheses):

GIRLS:

1) Monacan (#1, Conference 20 Top Seed)
2) Highland Springs (#2, Conference 12 Top Seed)
3) J.R. Tucker (#9, Conference 11 Top Seed)
4) Cosby (#6, Conference 3 Top Seed)
5) St. Catherine's (unranked, in LIS Tournament)
6) Atlee (#10, Conference 16 Top Seed)
7) Hopewell (unranked, Conference 26 Top Seed)
8) L.C. Bird (#5, Conference 12 #2 Seed)
9) Trinity Episcopal (#3, in LIS Tournament)
10) Midlothian (#8, Conference 20 #2 Seed)

BOYS:

1) L.C. Bird (#1, Conference 12 Top Seed)
2) Trinity Episcopal (#4, in Prep League Tourney)
3) Varina (#5, Conference 12 #2 Seed)
4) John Marshall (unranked, Conference 26 Top Seed)
5) Hermitage (#7, Conference 11 Top Seed)
6) Mills Godwin (unranked, Conference 11 #2 Seed)
7) St. Christopher's (#8, in Prep League Tourney)
8) George Wythe (unranked, Conference 26 #2 Seed)
9) Manchester (unranked, Conference 3 Top Seed)
10) Henrico (#6, Conference 11 #3 Seed)