Texas
Texas Association of Basketball Coaches high school state rankings, Feb. 12
A look at the Texas high school basketball state rankings from the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches.
Texas Association of Basketball Coaches State Rankings
Feb. 12, 2024
BOYS
CLASS 6A
1. Plano East (32-0); 2. Stony Point (31-1); 3. North Crowley (29-3); 4. Atascocita (28-6); 5. SA Brennan (27-4); 6. FB Clements (29-0); 7. Seven Lakes (32-2); 8. Shadow Creek (28-2); 9. Beaumont United (29-3); 10. Allen (29-5); 11. Duncanville (17-9); 12. Waxahachie (20-10); 13. Keller (25-5); 14. Mansfield Lake Ridge (26-6); 15. Austin Westlake (26-7); 16. Lake Travis (28-5); 17. New Braunfels (29-4); 18. South Grand Prairie (28-6); 19. Houston Bellaire (26-6); 20. TW College Park (30-4); 21. Schertz Clemens (25-8); 22. Cypress Falls (25-4); 23. Buda Johnson (25-7); 24. Frenship (26-4); 25. South Houston (27-6)
CLASS 5A
1. Lancaster (22-5); 2. SA Veterans Memorial (34-1); 3. FB Marshall (30-2); 4. EP Chapin (29-4); 5. Amarillo (29-4); 6. Leander Rouse (26-7); 7. Mansfield Summit (25-7); 8. Frisco Lone Star (28-3); 9. Dallas White (23-5); 10. The Colony (26-5); 11. Killeen Ellison (28-5); 12. Boerne Champion (29-4); 13. SA Southwest (29-3); 14. Waco University (26-6); 15. Palo Duro (21-5); 16. Longview (29-3); 17. Mt Pleasant (26-7); 18. Colleyville Heritage (26-5); 19. Mansfield Timberview (25-8); 20. CC Veterans Memorial (23-8); 21. South Oak Cliff (19-10); 22. SA Wagner (20-10); 23. Killeen Shoemaker (26-8); 24. Dallas Kimball (18-12); 25. Edinburg Vela (29-5)
CLASS 4A
1. FW Eastern Hills (25-4); 2. Faith Family (17-10); 3. Randall (28-3); 4. Dallas Carter (27-4); 5. Houston Washington (21-3); 6. Silsbee (22-9); 7. Iowa Colony (19-14); 8. Krum (29-3); 9. Estacado (21-7); 10. Bishop (25-9); 11. Stafford (27-6); 12. Boerne (28-5); 13. Kennedale (25-4); 14. Canyon (18-9); 15. Chapel Hill (24-4); 16. Hamshire Fannett (25-7); 17. Sinton (17-14); 18. West Plains (20-9); 19. Hudson (28-4); 20. La Vernia (30-1); 21. Dallas Lincoln (15-15); 22. Burkburnett (22-8); 23. Hirschi (13-11); 24. Mickey Leland (17-9); 25. Dallas Pinkston (17-15)
CLASS 3A
1. Hitchcock (27-3); 2. Shallowater (25-2); 3. SA Cole (26-9); 4. MP Chapel Hill (30-1); 5. Hooks (27-1); 6. Ponder (30-6); 7. Brock (26-8); 8. Holliday (28-2); 9. Orangefield (30-4); 10. Kountze (29-5); 11. Dallas Madison (17-11); 12. Poth (17-5); 13. Franklin (14-4); 14. Westwood (22-7); 15. Paradise (22-11); 16. Mexia (23-11); 17. Tatum (22-9); 18. Trinity Leadership (17-16); 19. Childress (23-8); 20. City View (17-10); 21. Lorena (22-9); 22. Northern Oaks (19-12); 23. Marion (21-8); 24. London (20-13); 25. Life Oak Cliff (24-10)
CLASS 2A
1. Lipan (28-4); 2. Martins Mill (27-4); 3. Beckville (21-6); 4. Reagan County (25-6); 5. Thorndale (28-3); 6. Hawkins (28-1); 7. Mumford (26-10); 8. North Hopkins (24-6); 9. New Home (25-6); 10. Honey Grove (26-4); 11. Nocona (22-11); 12. Poolville (27-5); 13. Shelbyville (22-7); 14. San Augustine (18-8); 15. LaPoynor (21-10); 16. Sam Rayburn (22-9); 17. Grapeland (23-10); 18. Evadale (22-12); 19. Marlin (16-4); 20. Farwell (22-9); 21. Timpson (10-6); 22. Tolar (14-14); 23. SA Stacey (19-8); 24. Olton (18-10); 25. Plains (28-3)
CLASS A
1. Graford (27-4); 2. Jayton (30-3); 3. Benjamin (16-1); 4. Texline (26-4); 5. Perrin Whitt (30-4); 6. Brookeland (24-7); 7. Huckabay (21-11); 8. Gordon (16-5); 9. Dodd City (24-7); 10. Nazareth (16-11); 11. Slidell (24-7); 12. Fayetteville (26-4); 13. Calvert (16-8); 14. Knox City (25-2); 15. Rocksprings (22-3); 16. Wildorado (27-4); 17. San Perlita (14-9); 18. McMullen County (25-8); 19. Irion County (20-8); 20. Electra (26-5); 21. Eula (25-4); 22. Laneville (21-13); 23. Garden City (22-9); 24. Coolidge (18-6); 25. Penelope (24-3)
TAPPS 6A/SPC 4A
1. Bellaire Episcopal (27-8); 2. San Antonio Antonian Prep (28-6); 3. Dallas St. Mark’s (26-7); 4. Houston St. John’s (26-7); 5. Houston Christian (28-8); 6. Plano John Paul II (25-9); 7. Addison Greenhill (29-4); 7. Dallas Parish Episcopal (24-10); 9. Plano Prestonwood Christian (18-13); 10. Addison Trinity Christian (21-13)
TAPPS 5A/SPC 3A
1. Austin St. Michael’s (32-1); 2. Midland Christian (28-6); 3. Houston Second Baptist (25-7); 4. Grapevine Faith Christian (27-9); 5. The Woodlands Christian Academy (23-7); 6. Austin St. Andrew’s (21-8); 7. The Woodlands John Cooper (18-14); 8. San Antonio Christian (29-7); 9. Fort Worth Southwest Christian (22-12); 10. Fort Worth Christian (20-14)
TAPPS 4A
1. St. Thomas’ Episcopal (21-8); 2. Lubbock Trinity Christian (31-5); 3. Arlington Grace (23-9); 4. Prince of Peace (24-10); 5. Colleyville Covenant (22-7); 6. McKinney Christian (23-10); 7. Austin Brentwood Christian (20-10); 8. Boerne Geneva (22-6); 9. The Woodlands Legacy (17-3); 10. Austin Hill Country (24-4)
TAPPS 3A
1. St. Francis Episcopal (23-10); 2. Lubbock Christian (24-6); 3. Westbury Christian (18-15); 4. Tyler Bishop Gorman (28-4); 5. New Braunfels Christian (22-8); 6. Marble Falls Faith (23-10); 7. Waco Live Oak Classical (29-5); 8. Waco Bishop Reicher (24-7); 9. Houston Lutheran North (13-10); 10. Bryan Brazos Christian (16-5)
TAPPS 2A
1. Ft. Worth Bethesda Christian (27-8); 2. Dallas First Baptist (21-9); 3. Amarillo Ascension Academy (19-0); 4. Crowley Nazarene Christian Academy (19-7); 5. Lubbock All Saints Episcopal (24-4); 6. Ft. Worth Christian Life Preparatory (15-7); 7. Galveston O’Connell (20-10); 8. Bulverde Bracken Christian (25-8); 9. Wylie Preparatory Academy (12-4); 10. Red Oak Ovilla Christian (14-9)
TAPPS A
1. DeSoto Canterbury Kingdom Collegiate (13-6); 2. Alamo Macedonian (31-2); 3. North Prosper Prestonwood Christian (15-6); 4. San Angelo Cornerstone (16-3); 5. Spring Founders Christian (20-11); 6. Edinburg Harvest (19-8); 7. Kingwood Covenant Preparatory (16-6); 8. Amarillo Holy Cross (20-3); 9. Lake Jackson Brazosport Christian (20-3); 10. Longview Christian Heritage (11-5)
GIRLS
CLASS 6A
1. DeSoto (23-5); 2. Lewisville Hebron (31-2); 3. Summer Creek (30-2); 4. SA Clark (29-2); 5. Duncanville (28-4); 6. SA Brennan (27-3); 7. South Grand Prairie (26-3); 8. Pearland (31-4); 9. Cypress Springs (27-2); 10. Cibolo Steele (27-8); 11. Ft. Bend Hightower (27-3); 12. Crowley (26-6); 13. Ft. Bend Austin (30-2); 14. Converse Judson (28-6); 15. Southlake Carroll (28-5); 16. FW Boswell (31-5); 17. Austin Westlake (25-5); 18. Edinburg (34-2); 19. Frenship (31-3); 20. Seven Lakes (27-8); 21. CE King (27-6); 22. Royse City (29-4); 23. Garland Sachse (22-9); 24. Langham Creek (28-5); 25. Hurst Bell (29-4)
CLASS 5A
1. Mansfield Timberview (34-1); 2. Frisco Liberty (27-7); 3. SA Wagner (24-5); 4. Amarillo High (32-4); 5. Richmond Randle (25-8); 6. Leander Glenn (31-2); 7. Lubbock Monterey (29-5); 8. McKinney North (26-10); 9. Liberty Hill (33-2); 10. Denton Ryan (28-7); 11. Pflugerville Hendrickson (26-7); 12. Argyle (30-5); 13. Comal Pieper (27-6); 14. Ft. Bend Willowridge (27-8); 15. White Settlement Brewer (28-4); 16. Killeen Chaparral (25-6); 17. Amarillo Tascosa (23-6); 18. SA McCollum (30-2); 19. Dallas White (28-3); 20. Georgetown (26-6); 21. Lamar Fulshear (24-7); 22. Manvel (29-6); 23. SA Harlandale (30-6); 24. Frisco Memorial (24-11); 25. Kerrville Tivy (23-7)
CLASS 4A
1. Glen Rose (29-3); 2. La Vega (28-8); 3. Levelland (32-2); 4. Sunnyvale (33-2); 5. Boerne (30-5); 6. Seminole (29-4); 7. Decatur (28-5); 8. Canyon (24-6); 9. Dallas Lincoln (25-3); 10. Fredericksburg (27-5); 11. Hardin Jefferson (24-10); 12. Silsbee (27-3); 13. Canton (28-5); 14. Cuero (32-3); 15. Godley (25-8); 16. Navasota (30-3); 17. West Plains (23-8); 18. Canyon Randall (22-8); 19. Krum (26-8); 20. Bishop (29-8); 21. Madisonville (27-5); 22. Brownsboro (26-7); 23. El Paso Riverside (29-1); 24. Bridgeport (24-11); 25. West Oso (26-8)
CLASS 3A
1. Fairfield (30-2); 2. Tuscola Jim Ned (30-2); 3. Emory Rains (31-2); 4. Winnsboro (30-6); 5. Hitchcock (23-4); 6. Idalou (28-6); 7. Tatum (27-1); 8. Lytle (26-7); 9. SA Cole (30-7); 10. Wall (23-7); 11. Franklin (31-6); 12. Brock (24-9); 13. Comanche (28-3); 14. Lorena (28-6); 15. Ponder (30-7); 16. Hallettsville (28-4); 17. Malakoff (30-3); 18. Littlefield (23-6); 19. Paradise (25-8); 20. Rice (21-5); 21. Poth (25-9); 22. Huntington (30-6); 23. Hooks (27-6); 24. Spearman (24-5); 25. Jourdanton (27-8)
CLASS 2A
1. Lipan (30-3); 2. Tenaha (30-5); 3. Farwell (29-3); 4. Martins Mill (29-4); 5. New Home (24-7); 6. Shiner (29-2); 7. Panhandle (25-6); 8. Goldwaithe (28-3); 9. Nocona (29-3); 10. Wellington (24-6); 11. Clarendon (27-2); 12. Christoval (27-7); 13. Bremond (26-1); 14. Ozona (29-5); 15. Cisco (25-4); 16. Muenster (26-6); 17. Lovelady (22-7); 18. Jewett Leon (26-5); 19. San Saba (27-5); 20. Flatonia (28-5); 21. Douglass (23-6); 22. Falls City (26-5); 23. Hamilton (22-9); 24. Frost (25-7); 25. Normangee (27-6)
CLASS A
1. Turkey Valley (30-2); 2. Newcastle (28-1); 3. Rocksprings (30-4); 4. Eula (30-4); 5. Nazareth (21-10); 6. Whiteface (28-4); 7. Richland Springs (29-6); 8. Gordon (25-8); 9. McMullen County (26-5); 10. Whitharral (25-5); 11. Gorman (29-5); 12. Borden County (28-5); 13. Graford (26-6); 14. Throckmorton (24-4); 15. McLean (25-3); 16. Neches (24-7); 17. Eden (24-6); 18. Harrold (22-2); 19. Dodd City (22-8); 20. Jayton (23-10); 21. Menard (23-5); 22. Irion County (22-8); 23. Robert Lee (25-8); 24. Texline (25-7); 25. Saltillo (25-7)
TAPPS 6A/ SPC 4A
1. San Antonio Antonian (32-7); 2. Dallas Ursuline (19-9); 3. Dallas Bishop Lynch (23-12); 4. Bellaire Episcopal (29-5); 5. Houston Kinkaid (29-3); 6. Plano Prestonwood Christian (26-6); 7. Plano John Paul II (18-17); 8. Houston The Village (24-11); 9. Tomball Concordia Lutheran (25-8); 10. Addison Greenhill (22-8)
TAPPS 5A/SPC 3A
1. San Antonio St. Mary’s Hall (31-3); 2. Grapevine Faith Christian (30-2); 3. Houston Second Baptist (25-9); 4. Argyle Liberty Christian (19-15); 5. Fort Worth Southwest Christian (18-8); 6. Brownsville St. Joseph (23-9); 7. San Antonio Christian (21-8); 8. Austin St. Dominic Savio (21-9); 9. Flower Mound Coram Deo (21-11); 10. Fort Worth All Saints (13-14)
TAPPS 4A
1. Geneva School of Boerne (26-3); 2. Grace Prep (Arlington) (24-7); 3. Lake County Christian (Fort Worth) (26-6); 4. Bay Area Christian (League City) (19-6); 5. Brook Hill (Bullard) (26-8); 6. Incarnate Word Academy (Corpus Christi) (31-6); 7. Trinity Christian (Lubbock) (17-13); 8. Trinity Christian (Willow Park) (17-12); 9. Legacy Prep (Woodlands) (19-11); 10. Dallas Christian (Mesquite) (14-6)
TAPPS 3A
1. Lubbock Christian (27-8); 2. Rosehill Chrisitan-Tomball (29-3); 3. San Jacinto Christian-Amarillo (25-8); 4. Brazos Christian-Bryan (24-8); 5. Bishop Gorman Catholic Tyler (17-13); 6. Lutheran-San Antonio (17-16); 7. McKinney Cornerstone (15-2); 8. Lutheran North-Houston (9-12); 9. Live Oak Classical-Waco (19-10); 10. Yavneh Dallas (13-7)
TAPPS 2A
1. Dallas First Baptist (26-3); 2. Lubbock Southcrest (21-5); 3. Bryan St. Joseph (18-4); 4. Red Oak Ovilla (18-6); 5. Hallettsville Sacred Heart (17-8); 6. Conroe Covenant (20-12); 7. Shiner St. Paul (17-8); 8. Austin Waldorf (17-7); 9. Muenster Sacred Heart (16-14); 10. Bryan Allen Academy (9-9)
TAPPS A
1. Edinburg Harvest Christian (36-1); 2. Prosper Prestonwood North (23-12); 3. Sherman Texoma Christian (18-8); 4. Longview Christian Heritage (19-6); 5. Amarillo Accelerate (14-8); 6, San Angelo Cornerstone (8-9); 7. Amarillo Holy Cross (16-8); 8. Fredericksburg Heritage (10-4); 9. Cypress Covenant (11-4); 10. Conroe Calvary Baptist (11-6)
Texas
Michigan Forced to Make Major Coaching Change Ahead of Citrus Bowl vs. Texas
As the offseason of college football approaches, coaches across the country are leaving their current programs for new ones. One of these coaches is Michigan offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey, who has left the Wolverines for the Mizzou Tigers. With his departure, Michigan will look to a new coach to assume Lindsey’s duties in the upcoming Cheez-It Citrus Bowl.
Taking over play-calling duties for Michigan will likely be Wolverines tight ends coach and co-offensive coordinator Steve Casula.
Steve Casula Takes Over As Offensive Coordinator
According to ESPN, Lindsey signed a three-year deal with the Tigers to take over as the team’s offensive coordinator. After spending only a single season with the Wolverines, he left in the aftermath of the recent Sherrone Moore scandal, which led to the firing of the former Michigan head coach.
Casula is in his second season with the Wolverines as an assistant coach, but previously worked with Michigan from 2019 to 2021 as an offensive analyst. Nearly eclipsing 20 years of coaching experience, this will not be Casula’s first time taking on a team’s offensive playcalling.
Casula previously held stints as the offensive coordinator at Davenport, Ferris State and, most recently, UMASS. While with Massachusetts, the Minutemen offense averaged 22.5 points per game, 163.5 rushing yards per game, 181.8 passing yards per game and 345.2 total yards per game.
Now he takes on perhaps his toughest challenge yet as an offensive playcaller, taking on the Texas Longhorns in the Citrus Bowl.
Texas has undergone some coaching changes as well, on the opposite side of the ball, recently firing defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski and hiring Will Muschamp in his stead.
While the Texas defense didn’t perform to expectations this season and has had various players opt out of the Citrus Bowl, they still boast some of the best young talent in the nation. Defensive players set not to play in the Longhorns’ upcoming contest include linebacker Anthony Hill Jr., safety Michael Taaffe, defensive lineman Ethan Burke, cornerback Malik Muhammad and linebacker Trey Moore.
This will mean the Longhorns will get an early look at perhaps some of the players that will be the core of next season’s defense. Some young names like Jonah Williams and Bo Barnes likely be given a chance to play significant minutes, and will hope to put a stop to Casula and the Michigan offense.
With the turmoil that Michigan has undergone over the past few weeks, perhaps Casula can bring some stability to the offense after Lindsey’s exit.
Texas
How to watch Kentucky vs. Texas A&M volleyball in NCAA championship
Texas A&M, Kentucky face off in NCAA volleyball championship game
We now know the two teams heading to the national championship. Meg Hall explains how Texas A&M and Kentucky made it to the title game.
The 2025 NCAA volleyball season comes down to Kentucky vs. Texas A&M. The conference rivals will meet in the first all-SEC national championship game on Sunday, Dec. 21 (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC) at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.
Texas A&M is vying for its first championship after upsetting No. 1 overall seed Nebraska and Pitt in the Elite Eight and Final Four, respectively. Meanwhile, Kentucky is looking to win its second title and first since 2020 after beating Wisconsin in a five-set semifinal thriller.
It will be the 28th all-time meeting between the teams. The Wildcats hold a 17-10 advantage in the series, but the Aggies are 2-0 when the team’s meet on a neutral court.
Kentucky beat Texas A&M on Oct. 8 in College Station. The Aggies won the first set, but Wildcats rallied to win the last three for the victory.
When is Kentucky vs. Texas A&M volleyball?
No. 1 Kentucky (29-2) faces No. 3 Texas A&M (28-4) on Sunday, Dec. 21 at 3:30 p.m. ET at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
Kentucky vs. Texas A&M volleyball: Channel, streaming
- Date: Sunday, Dec. 21
- Time: 3:30 p.m ET (2:30 p.m. CT)
- Location: T-Mobile Center (Kansas City, Missouri)
- Channel: ABC
- Stream: ESPN+, Fubo
Stream to NCAA volleyball championship
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Kentucky Wildcats starting lineup
Head coach: Craig Skinner
- 6 Kassie O’Brien | S 6-1 – Freshman
- 7 Eva Hudson | OH 6-1 – Senior
- 10 Kennedy Washington | MB 6-0 – Sophomore
- 11 Molly Berezowitz | DS 5-5 – Junior
- 12 Molly Tuozzo | L 5-7 – Junior
- 15 Lizzie Carr | MB 6-6 – Redshirt Junior
- 17 Brooklyn DeLeye | OH 6-2 – Junior
Texas A&M Aggies starting lineup
Head coach: Jamie Morrison
- 37 Kyndal Stowers | OH 5-11 – Sophomore
- 1 Ifenna Cos-Okpalla | MB 6-2 – Senior
- 2 Addi Applegate | L/DS 5-5 – Freshman
- 9 Logan Lednicky | OPP 6-3 – Senior
- 12 Ava Underwood | L/DS 5-7 – Senior
- 16 Maddie Waak | S 5-10 – Senior
Texas
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Texas A&M’s Loss to Miami
No matter the accomplishments and accolades collected through the year, all seasons must come to end in some form or fashion. Unfortunately for Texas A&M football, the form of its first defeat in the College Football Playoff was in a tight 10-3 matchup with the Miami Hurricanes.
Despite of their best defensive outing of the 2025 campaign, the Aggies inability to get the offense churning until the very end of the game was among the factors that doomed their chances of advancing deeper into the national title race.
All things considered, it was a terrific season for the Maroon and White, who rattled off 11 straight wins to start the season as well as reaching the CFP for the first time in school history, which is a huge leap seeing that it was only head coach Mike Elko’s second season at the helm of the program. With that said, let’s take a look at the good, bad and ugly of the final A&M game of the year.
The Good: A precedent was set
Though the sting of a loss, especially a season-ending one, is a hard feeling to turn the page over with, an 11-2 run in Elko’s second year is a quite the feat. A&M, which hadn’t achieved 10 wins in a season in over a decade, is poised to build a long-standing prescence in the national title race.
Though a small sample size, Elko has progressed his time in each of the last two years, which can lead folks to assume that next year will have a similar outcome as far as overall success. While difficult to grasp in the moment, championship programs are not so quickly built in today’s Southeastern Conference.
The Bad: Offensive struggles spoil courageous defensive effort
In most normal circumstances, holding a team to just 10 points typically results in a victory. But that was not the case for the Aggies on Saturday. Through the better part of a three-and-a-half quarters, the A&M defense held Miami to just three points until in the final two minutes when a touchdown was conceded.
The Aggies had no answer to their defense’s heroics and came up short in the final seconds of the game when there was a chance in the end zone to tie the ballgame. A new offensive coordinator in Holmon Wiggins is due up next season, so the jury is still out on how next year will pan out.
The Ugly: Kicking the ball
Sometimes, things can be so bad that they are simply comical. That would certainly be the case in College Station on Saturday afternoon, where a windy day helped a total of four field goal attempts to be missed across both squads.
However, the Aggie faithful would be the first to say that even without wind, field goal kicking seemed virtually impossible this season. Kicker Jared Zirkel seemingly kicked the ball straight in the Hurricanes line within the 30-yard line and the Aggies only scored off a short boot from kicker Randy Bond.
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