High School Sports

If you attempted to come watch Garfield and Rainier Beach last night, there’s a decent chance you were turned away. Unfortunately, if you were one of those fans that missed the game, it lived up to the hype.

This week’s boys basketball rankings.

The Rainier Beach basketball team is traveling today to Washington D.C. ahead of its game Saturday against St. Benedict’s Prep (New Jersey) at 8:45 p.m. in the MLK Hoopfest Showcase.

SEATTLE (AP) — How a state panel of sports writers rates Washington high school basketball teams in the weekly Associated Press poll of 2015, by WIAA divisions, with won-lost record and total points (first-place votes in parentheses):

One of the biggest Metro games of the season comes tonight when Eastside Catholic visits Rainier Beach for a 7:30 p.m. tip. The teams played four times last season, including a thrilling matchup in the Class 3A state title game.

USA Today is holding a competition on its High School Sports page to determine the best boys basketball program in the country. The Washington candidates are Garfield, Mercer Island, Franklin, O’Dea and Rainier Beach. Vote here.

This week’s rankings.

SEATTLE (AP) — How a state panel of sports writers rates Washington high school basketball teams in the weekly Associated Press poll of 2015, by WIAA divisions, with won-lost record and total points (first-place votes in parentheses):

Garfield entered the latest edition of the MaxPreps national boys basketball rankings at No. 22. Rainier Beach, previously No. 24, dropped out after losing a game in the Les Schwab Invitational.

After a week break from the rankings, we’re back at it. I didn’t penalize teams that struggled at out-of-state tournaments. A lot of the tournaments had stacked fields and it’s hard to compare those teams with in-state ones. It’s also difficult to compare out-of-state teams in different tournaments.