By Michael Lindsay
The first editions of the Associated Press’ Boys and Girls Top-10 basketball polls in Tennessee were released Monday afternoon. 14 Upper Cumberland programs are ranked in the initial top 10, led by Livingston Academy’s boys and Upperman’s girls coming in at #1 in Class 3A.
The full top-10 ranking for each classification that an Upper Cumberland team is ranked is below:
Boys
CLASS 3A
1. Livingston Academy
2. Haywood County
3. Lawrence County
4. Crockett County
5. Stone Memorial
6. Fulton
7. Melrose
8. Fayette Ware
9. Tennessee
10. Onion County
Others receiving 12 or more points: Dyer County 14. Upperman 13. Unicoi County 12
CLASS 1A
1. Middleton
2. Clay County
3. Richland
4. Hampton
5. East Robertson
6. Eagleville
7. McKenzie
8. Gordonsville
9. Pickett County
10. North Greene
GIRLS
CLASS 4A
1. Bearden
2. Coffee County
(Tie) Bradley Central
4. Blackman
5. Bartlett
6. Heritage
7. Stewarts Creek
8. Cookeville
9. Rockvale
10. Arlington
CLASS 3A
1. Upperman
(Tie) Jackson South Side
3. White County
4. Dyer County
5. Elizabethton
6. Creek Wood
7. Cumberland County
8. Livingston Academy
9. Crockett County
10. Greeneville
CLASS 2A
1. Westview
2. Alcoa
3. York Institute
4. Huntingdon
5. Gatlinburg-Pittman
6. Gibson County
7. Cheatham County
8. McMinn Central
9. Community
10. Summertown
CLASS 1A
1. Wayne County
2. Hampton
3. Clarkrange
4. Clay County
5. McKenzie
5. Pickett County
7. Dresden
8. Houston County
8. McEwen
10. Richland
*Note: Upper Cumberland Reporter is not part of the Associated Press and does not vote in these polls.