Where do the Greater Gardner high school basketball teams sit in the state playoff race?

The MIAA released an updated batch of power rankings for the boys and girls basketball state tournaments on Friday morning.

These power rankings are not finalized and adjustments may be made as schools send their game results to the MIAA. This set of power rankings reflects scores which have been entered into ArbiterLive as of Friday, Feb. 3 at 4 a.m.

The biggest piece of news since we last checked in on the local teams’ standing in the power rankings two weeks ago is that both the Gardner High and Oakmont Regional boys basketball teams both captured their 10th win of the season during Week 8 thereby guaranteeing playoff berths for the Wildcats and Spartans.

The Monty Tech boys basketball team, winners of three in a row and four of its last five games before their game against Parker School last Friday, is also surging at the right time. Though it is unlikely the Bulldogs (8-6) will earn a top-32 seed for the Division 3 state tournament, they can earn a spot in a play-in game with a .500 record or better.

The good news is not solely limited to the region’s boys hoops teams either. The Monty Tech girls (5-9) recently won four games in a row to give themselves a fighting chance of reaching .500, while Gardner High (7-5), Oakmont (7-6) and Quabbin (7-6) were all hovering above .500 entering play last Friday.

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Here is where the Greater Gardner region’s high school teams stack up in their respective divisions.

Boys basketball

Division 3

1) Archbishop Williams (13-0)

2) St. Mary’s (10-3)

3) Old Rochester Regional (11-3)

4) Cardinal Spellman (9-4)

5) Pittsfield (11-3)

6) Norwell (12-2)

7) Tech Boston Academy (9-6)

8) Boston Latin Academy (11-4)

9) Oakmont Regional (11-2, down from No. 8)

10) Dover-Sherborn (12-3)

11) Saugus (11-4)

12) Apponequet Regional (7-6)

13) Hanover (7-6)

14) Gloucester (8-5)

15) Watertown (6-7)

16) New Mission (9-6)

17) Martha’s Vineyard Regional (13-1)

18) Hudson (9-5)

19) Dedham (9-4)

20) Bishop Stang (5-7)

21) East Bridgewater (8-7)

22) Rockland (8-6)

23) Abington (7-8)

24) Greater New Bedford (7-9)

25) Seekonk (7-8)

26) English High (6-5)

27) Medway (9-5)

28) East Boston (9-6)

29) Swampscott (6-7)

30) Arlington Catholic (5-10)

31) Greater Lowell Tech (8-4)

32) Groton-Dunstable (6-8)

Other locals looking in

57) Quabbin (4-10, down from No. 55)

60) Monty Tech (8-6, down from No. 57)

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Division 5

1) Taconic (11-2)

2) David Prouty (14-0)

3) Westport (10-3)

4) Pioneer Valley Regional (12-2)

5) Maynard (9-3)

6) Hopedale (10-3)

7) Sutton (10-3)

8) Hopkins Academy (13-1)

9) Academy of the Pacific Rim (8-3)

10) Roxbury Prep Charter (10-3)

11) Paulo Freire SJ Charter (6-7)

12) Hoosac Valley (7-5)

13) Calvary Chapel Academy (10-5)

14) Holbrook (12-3)

15) Salem Academy Charter (13-3)

16) Gardner (11-3, down from No. 9)

17) Greenfield (8-5)

18) KIPP Academy (6-7)

19) Hull (4-10)

20) Drury (8-6)

21) Granby (9-5)

22) Mounty Greylock Regional (9-5)

23) St. Bernard’s (7-6)

24) Keefe Tech (12-2)

25) Quaboag Regional (4-7)

26) Douglas (6-10)

27) Mystic Valley Reg. Charter (8-6)

28) John J. Duggan Academy (11-2)

29) Tahanto Regional (9-3)

30) Lenox Memorial (5-9)

31) Ayer-Shirley (8-6)

32) Edward M. Kennedy Academy (6-6)

Others locals looking in

64) Murdock (5-8, down from 61)

78) Narragansett (1-13, down from 73)

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Girls basketball

Division 3

1) St. Mary’s (14-1)

2) Dover-Sherborn (10-4)

3) Bishop Fenwick (8-5)

4) Rockland (12-2)

5) Norton (11-4)

6) Norwell (13-2)

7) Archbishop Williams (9-5)

8) Medway (7-7)

9) Fontbonne (10-3)

10) North Reading (9-4)

11) Hudson (11-2)

12) Watertown (6-7)

13) Bishop Stang (9-5)

14) Pittsfield (9-3)

15) Sandwich (11-3)

16) Tantasqua Regional (10-2)

17) East Bridgewater (10-7)

18) Dennis-Yarmouth (8-3)

19) Saugus (10-4)

20) Stoneham (3-12)

21) Arlington Catholic (5-10)

22) Oakmont Regional (7-6, down from No. 18)

23) Abington (8-9)

24) Greater Lowell Tech (9-2)

25) Dedham (3-12)

26) Lynnfield (7-8)

27) Quabbin Regional (6-6, no change)

28) Apponequet Regional (7-7)

29) Auburn (8-5)

30) Nipmuc Regional (8-4)

31) Bellingham (3-13)

32) Diman RVT (11-3)

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Others locals looking in

56) Monty Tech (5-8, no change)

Division 5

1) Millis (8-7)

2) Georgetown (9-4)

3) Springfield International Charter (10-2)

4) Palmer (11-1)

5) Sutton (12-2)

6) Hoosac Valley (8-4)

7) Westport (11-2)

8) Quaboag Regional (9-3)

9) Maynard (6-6)

10) West Boylston (10-3)

11) Taconic (5-7)

12) Minuteman Regional (13-0)

13) Lenox Memorial (9-4)

14) Ayer-Shirley (10-2)

15) Tahanto Regional (8-4)

16) Franklin County Tech (13-1)

17) Hopedale (7-6)

18) Carver (4-9)

19) South Shore Vocational Tech (12-2)

20) Old Colony RVT (10-4)

21) Prospect Hill Academy Charter (13-1)

22) St. Bernard’s (6-6)

23) Renaissance School (9-5)

24) Academy of the Pacific Rim (11-1)

25) Saint John Paul II (6-3)

26) Hull (5-10)

27) Pioneer Valley Regional (7-5)

28) Mount Everett Regional (6-6)

29) Nashoba Valley Tech (10-3)

30) Monson (6-7)

31) Salem Academy Charter (12-3)

32) Turners Falls (7-7)

Locals looking in

39) Gardner (7-5, up from No. 43)

76) Narragansett (1-9, down from No. 73)

77) Murdock (0-9, down from No. 76)

This article originally appeared on Gardner News: High school basketball: Updated MIAA state tournament power ratings