Basketball season tips off in the Upper Cumberland this week, and with it comes the first UC top 5 basketball polls:

Girls

1. White County

2. Cookeville

3. Upperman

4. York Institute

5. Van Buren County

Honorable mentions: Pickett County, Cumberland County

Boys

1. Upperman

2. Jackson County

3. Pickett County

4. Cookeville

5. Stone Memorial