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The second edition of the 2006 METRONEWS Power Index has been released for Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006
Click here for the complete METRONEWS Power Index from Week 2.
Now let’s take a look at the updated second Power Index for the 2005-06 season …
The computer is saying the same thing as most sportswriters and the fans – HUNTINGTON is the best high school basketball team in West Virginia … at least for right now. At a perfect 11-0, HUNTINGTON is on top of the Power Index for the second straight week. The Highlanders are followed by UNIVERSITY, which is off to its best start in years at 9-0. GEORGE WASHINGTON is third followed by MORGANTOWN at four and MARTINSBURG at five. This is the first time in PI history that both MORGANTOWN and UNIVERSITY are in the top 10 together, much less the top four.
SOUTH CHARLESTON at number six starts the second five followed by the highest ranked Class AA school in West Virginia, WEIR, at number seven. Two big schools – BRIDGEPORT at eight and CAPITAL at nine – follow and the top 10 ends with the second Class AA team, RAVENSWOOD, at 10. The CAPITAL Cougars jumped from 21 a week ago to nine this week.
JEFFERSON falls out of the top 10 and lands at 11 this week followed by HEDGESVILLE, one of four Eastern Panhandle schools in the top 20, jumping from 24 to 12. Class AA LINCOLN is 13, then ST. ALBANS at 14 and NITRO at 15.
Two Class AA powerhouses start the next five – WESTSIDE at 16 and WINFIELD at 17. PARKERSBURG is 18 this week followed by perennial power Beckley WOODROW WILSON at 19. MUSSELMAN - thirteen a week ago - rounds out the top 20.
The top Class A teams this week are: No. 26 CHARLESTON CATHOLIC, No. 34 WHEELING CENTRAL, No. 36 BUFFALO, No. 37 TUCKER COUNTY and No. 41 WILLIAMSON.
Have fun with it and we'll talk again next Wednesday as the 2005-2006 high school basketball season moves into the third METRONEWS Power Index week of the season.
The girls and boys high school season will run into March when their seasons will come to a conclusion with the state tournaments at the Charleston Civic Center. The girls state tournament will be held March 8-11, while the boys tournament will run March 15-18.
The METRONEWS Power Index rates all 133-West Virginia high school basketball teams from one to 133. Using strength of schedule, success against that schedule and results of inter-class play, the Power Index attempts to gauge the relative strength of each West Virginia high school team. Newspapers may use the Power Index if they (a) refer to the rating system as the METRONEWS Power Index, (b) publish the information exactly as received from METRONEWS and (c) attach no commercial credit to the publication other than regular run of paper advertisements.
The METRONEWS High School Basketball Power Index is a copyrighted feature of the METRONEWS Radio Networks. All rights reserved.
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