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Boys School Top 50 2024: Week 13

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Boys School Top 50 2024: Week 13

St. Ignatius vs Mar del Plata in Argentina. Grady Wilson photo.

We waited a week thanks to a slow Easter Weekend, but there aren't a lot of shifts anyway.

The big changes in the School Top 50 include Georgetown Prep up five spots after a win over Fairfield Prep, and Wichita and Weymouth joining the Top 50 after a tie and a win vs ranked teams, respectively. Now, this is still relatively early for some leagues, so we might see big shifts in, say Massachusetts.

St. Augustine of New Jersey comes back after a good win, while Monarch and Bishop Dwenger drop out mostly because we haven't seen them play a lot. Both have games coming up, and that can easily bring them back. Also, with Weymouth, we're not completely on the bandwagon. Strength of schedule matters so this MIAA D2 team (in 2023 at least) will have to back up their early result.

Several teams were on tour, and usually tour games don't really hurt you in the rankings. They can help, and overall nothing that happened with the top teams made us think we should make major changes. We of course saw St. Ignatius up close because GRR was on tour with them—they, like a lot of teams on tour, weren't exactly full strength, but they fronted up quite impressively. The upcoming St. Ignatius vs Xavier and St. Ignatius vs St. Edward games will be interesting to watch.

Rank Prev Team Notes
1 1 Gonzaga (DC) On tour
2 2 Xavier (NY) On tour
3 3 St. Thomas Aquinas (KS) Beat Liberty, Liberty North
4 4 St. Ignatius (OH) On tour
5 5 St. Martin's (KS)  
6 6 De La Salle (CA) Beat Jesuit Sac (19)
7 7 Herriman (UT) Lost to Layton Christian
8 8 Los Alamitos (CA)  
9 9 Torrey Pines (CA)  
10 10 Cathedral Catholic (CA)  
11 11 St. Francis (CA)  
12 12 St. Edward (OH)  
13 13 East HS (UT)  
14 17 Greenwich (CT) Beat Staples
15 14 Dallas Jesuit (TX)  
16 15 Hough (NC)  
17 16 St. Ignatius SF (CA)  
18 18 Marvin Ridge HS (NC)  
19 19 Sacramento Jesuit (CA) Lost to De La Salle (6)
20 20 Gregory the Great (PA)  
21 21 Pelham HS (NY) Beat Fairfield RC
22 23 St. Joe's Prep (PA) Beat Berks
23 22 Rye (NY)  
24 24 South Meck (NC)  
25 25 BC High (MA) Beat SImsbury
26 26 ND de la Salette (IL)  
27 32 Georgetown Prep (MD) Beat Fairfield Prep (27)
28 28 Regis Jesuit (CO) Beat Falcons
29 29 St. Xavier (OH)  
30 27 Fairfield Prep (CT) Lost to Georgetown Prep (32)
31 30 Lake Travis (TX)  
32 31 SLUH (MO) Beat CBC
33 33 Orange Lutheran (CA)  
34 34 Strake Jesuit (TX)  
35 37 Eagle (ID)  
36 38 East HS (CO) Beat Titans
37 39 Moeller (OH)  
38 36 Bixby (OK) Tied Wichita. Beat Little Rock
39 Unr Wichita (OK) Tied Bixby (36)
40 Unr Weymouth (MA) Beat Belmont (35)
41 35 Belmont HS (MA) Lost to Weymouth
42 40 Loyola LA (CA)  
43 41 Kahuku (HI)  
44 42 Bishop O'Dowd (CA)  
45 44 Owyhee (ID)  
46 50 St. Augustine (NJ) Beat Union
47 49 Jesuit New Orleans (LA) Beat Warren Easton
48 46 La Salle (PA) On Tour
49 47 Rocky Mountain (ID)  
50 48 Fordham Prep (NY)