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MIAA releases its latest basketball power rankings. See where Fall River area teams stand

steven sanchez, the herald news
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The MIAA released its latest tournament basketball power rankings of the season on Tuesday.

The rankings only include scores entered into Arbiter, verified by MIAA and schools as of Feb. 21 at 4 a.m. The top 32 teams qualify, while Teams 33 and below qualify for a play-in game with a .500 or better record.

As of Tuesday morning, seven Greater Fall River teams (three boys and four girls teams) have a grasp on a tournament seeding berth.

Here's a look at the latest power rankings of the season for Fall River area hoop teams:

Durfee's Alexis Montilla drives on Bishop Connolly's Jayden Sousa.
Durfee's Alexis Montilla drives on Bishop Connolly's Jayden Sousa.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Division I

Who's in?

  • 1. Catholic Memorial

  • 2. Lawrence

  • 3. Franklin

  • 4. Central Catholic

  • 5. Needham

  • 6. Newton North

  • 7. North High

  • 8. Andover

  • 9. North Andover

  • 10. Lynn English

  • 11. Xaverian

  • 12. Boston College High

  • 13. Beverly

  • 14. Brockton

  • 15. Taunton

  • 16. Natick

  • 17. Methuen

  • 18. Bishop Feehan

  • 19. Waltham

  • 20. Lowell

  • 21. Wellesley

  • 22. Peabody Veterans

  • 23. Attleboro

  • 24. Arlington

  • 25. Winchester

  • 26. St. John's Prep

  • 27. Brookline

  • 28. Springfield Central

  • 29. Saint John's

  • 30. Weymouth

  • 31. Lexington

  • 32. Durfee

Outside: None

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Division II

Who's in?

  • 1. Malden Catholic

  • 2. Mansfield

  • 3. Sharon

  • 4. Shepherd Hill

  • 5. Nashoba

  • 6. Wakefield Memorial

  • 7. Charlestown

  • 8. Marblehead

  • 9. Foxboro

  • 10. Dartmouth

  • 11. Pope Francis

  • 12. Salem

  • 13. North Quincy

  • 14. Burlington

  • 15. Walpole

  • 16. Canton

  • 17. West Springfield

  • 18. Bedford

  • 19. Leominster

  • 20. Middleboro

  • 21. Norwood

  • 22. Scituate

  • 23. Fitchburg

  • 24. Longmeadow

  • 25. Whitman-Hanson

  • 26. Westwood

  • 27. Tewksbury

  • 28. South High Community

  • 29. Plymouth South

  • 30. Pembroke

  • 31. Grafton

  • 32. Somerset Berkley

Outside: None

Division III

Who's in?

  • 1. Archbishop Williams

  • 2. St. Mary's

  • 3. Old Rochester

  • 4. Cardinal Spellman

  • 5. Dover-Sherborn

  • 6. Tech Boston Academy

  • 7. Pittsfield

  • 8. Oakmont

  • 9. Boston Latin Academy

  • 10. Hanover

  • 11. Norwell

  • 12. Saugus

  • 13. New Mission

  • 14. Apponequet

  • 15. Hudson

  • 16. Martha's Vineyard

  • 17. Dedham

  • 18. Gloucester

  • 19. Bishop Stang

  • 20. Seekonk

  • 21. Norton

  • 22. English High

  • 23. Greater Lowell

  • 24. Lowell Catholic

  • 25. Tantasqua

  • 26. Medway

  • 27. Watertown

  • 28. Arlington Catholic

  • 29. Abington

  • 30. East Boston

  • 31. Greater New Bedford

  • 32. Swampscott

Outside: Diman (63)

Division IV

Who's in?

  • 1. Burke

  • 2. Wareham

  • 3. Springfield Int'l Charter

  • 4. Bourne

  • 5. Millbury

  • 6. Manchester Essex

  • 7. Clinton

  • 8. Cathedral

  • 9. Randolph

  • 10. West Bridgewater

  • 11. Wahconah

  • 12. Monument Mountain

  • 13. Georgetown

  • 14. Tyngsboro

  • 15. Fenway

  • 16. South Hadley

  • 17. Lynn Vo-Tech

  • 18. Lunenburg

  • 19. Carver

  • 20. Uxbridge

  • 21. Nantucket

  • 22. Snowden International

  • 23. Whitinsville Christian

  • 24. Cape Cod Academy

  • 25. Bay Path

  • 26. Bartlett

  • 27. Whittier

  • 28. Oxford

  • 29. Northbridge

  • 30. Cohasset

  • 31. Winthrop

  • 32. Blue Hills

Outside: Bishop Connolly (33), Joseph Case (36)

Division V

Who's in?

  • 1. Taconic

  • 2. David Prouty

  • 3. Hopedale

  • 4. Maynard

  • 5. Westport

  • 6. Pioneer Valley

  • 7. Sutton

  • 8. Hopkins Academy

  • 9. Roxbury Prep

  • 10. KIPP Academy Lynn Coll.

  • 11. Salem Academy

  • 12. Academy of the Pacific Rim

  • 13. Hoosac Valley

  • 14. Holbrook

  • 15. Gardner

  • 16. Greenfield

  • 17. Quaboag

  • 18. Calvary Chapel Academy

  • 19. Paulo Freire SJ Charter

  • 20. Douglas

  • 21. Mystic Valley

  • 22. Ayer Shirley

  • 23. Mount Greylock

  • 24. Drury

  • 25. Granby

  • 26. Tahanto

  • 27. Keefe Tech

  • 28. Saint Bernard's

  • 29. John J. Duggan

  • 30. Neighborhood House

  • 31. Millis

  • 32. Hull

Outside: Atlantis Charter (44)

Case's Gianna Lupo guards Westport's Leah Sylvain.
Case's Gianna Lupo guards Westport's Leah Sylvain.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Division I

Who's in?

  • 1. Andover

  • 2. Bishop Feehan

  • 3. Woburn

  • 4. Brookline

  • 5. Wachusett

  • 6. Framingham

  • 7. Bridgewater-Raynham

  • 8. Lexington

  • 9. Newton North

  • 10. North Andover

  • 11. Winchester

  • 12. Lincoln-Sudbury

  • 13. Chelmsford

  • 14. Franklin

  • 15. Springfield Central

  • 16. Belmont

  • 17. Newton South

  • 18. Needham

  • 19. Central Catholic

  • 20. Wellesley

  • 21. Attleboro

  • 22. Quincy

  • 23. Mansfield

  • 24. Weymouth

  • 25. Durfee

  • 26. Methuen

  • 27. Reading

  • 28. New Bedford

  • 29. Algonquin

  • 30. Marshfield

  • 31. Acton-Boxboro

  • 32. Hingham

Outside: None

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Division II

Who's in?

  • 1. Walpole

  • 2. Medfield

  • 3. Wakefield

  • 4. Westwood

  • 5. Foxboro

  • 6. Dracut

  • 7. Newburyport

  • 8. Norwood

  • 9. Pentucket

  • 10. Whitman-Hanson

  • 11. Wayland

  • 12. Nashoba

  • 13. South High Community

  • 14. Chicopee

  • 15. Billerica

  • 16. Leominster

  • 17. Shepherd Hill

  • 18. Hanover

  • 19. Oliver Ames

  • 20. Amherst-Pelham

  • 21. Tewksbury

  • 22. Westboro

  • 23. Ashland

  • 24. Masconomet

  • 25. Holyoke

  • 26. Notre Dame (Hingham)

  • 27. Bedford

  • 28. Holliston

  • 29. Burlington

  • 30. Dartmouth

  • 31. Grafton

  • 32. Pembroke

Outside: Somerset Berkley (41)

Division III

Who's in?

  • 1. St. Mary's

  • 2. Rockland

  • 3. Norwell

  • 4. Dover-Sherborn

  • 5. Bishop Fenwick

  • 6. Norton

  • 7. Hudson

  • 8. North Reading

  • 9. Fontbonne

  • 10. Medway

  • 11. Tantasqua

  • 12. Archbishop Williams

  • 13. Bishop Stang

  • 14. Watertown

  • 15. Pittsfield

  • 16. East Bridgewater

  • 17. Sandwich

  • 18. Stoneham

  • 19. Oakmont

  • 20. Dennis-Yarmouth

  • 21. Abington

  • 22. Saugus

  • 23. Arlington Catholic

  • 24. Greater Lowell Tech

  • 25. Nipmuc

  • 26. Auburn

  • 27. Dedham

  • 28. Lynnfield

  • 29. Quabbin

  • 30. Apponequet

  • 31. Ipswich

  • 32. Diman

Outside: None

Division IV

Who's in?

  • 1. Cathedral

  • 2. Tyngsboro

  • 3. Cohasset

  • 4. Notre Dame (Worcester)

  • 5. Malden Catholic

  • 6. Littleton

  • 7. Mashpee

  • 8. Wahconah

  • 9. Millbury

  • 10. Joseph Case

  • 11. Bourne

  • 12. Winthrop

  • 13. Manchester Essex

  • 14. Northbridge

  • 15. Easthampton

  • 16. Pope Francis

  • 17. Uxbridge

  • 18. South Hadley

  • 19. Blackstone Valley

  • 20. Blue Hills

  • 21. Monomoy

  • 22. Hamilton-Wenham

  • 23. Frontier

  • 24. West Bridgewater

  • 25. Bay Path

  • 26. Mahar

  • 27. New Mission

  • 28. Fenway

  • 29. Tech Boston Academy

  • 30. Monument Mountain

  • 31. Leicester

  • 32. Southwick

Outside: Bishop Connolly (51)

Division V

Who's in?

  • 1. Millis

  • 2. Springfield Int'l Charter

  • 3. Sutton

  • 4. Georgetown

  • 5. Hoosac Valley

  • 6. Palmer

  • 7. Westport

  • 8. West Boylston

  • 9. Maynard

  • 10. Quaboag

  • 11. Tahanto

  • 12. Ayer Shirley

  • 13. Carver

  • 14. Lenox Memorial

  • 15. Hopedale

  • 16. Saint Bernard's

  • 17. Taconic

  • 18. Minuteman

  • 19. Hull

  • 20. Franklin County

  • 21. South Shore Vo-Tech

  • 22. Old Colony

  • 23. Prospect Hill Acad.

  • 24. Monson

  • 25. Saint John Paul II

  • 26. Gardner

  • 27. Drury

  • 28. Academy of the Pacific Rim

  • 29. Upper Cape Cod

  • 30. Renaissance School

  • 31. Salem Academy Charter

  • 32. Whitinsville Christian

Outside: Atlantis Charter (94)

Herald News and Taunton Daily Gazette sports editor Steven Sanchez can be reached at ssanchez@heraldnews.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @Chezsports. Support local journalism by purchasing a digital or print subscription to The Herald News today.

This article originally appeared on The Herald News: MIAA releases latest basketball power ranking of the 2022-23 season