Power-ranking each Springfield area boys' basketball district heading into February

With less than a month remaining in the 2023-24 high school basketball regular season, we went through and power-ranked each district involving a high school basketball team from the area.

Here's how we see things going down on the boys' side. Rankings are based on results from games played through Jan. 30.

Class 1, District 4

  1. Niangua

  2. Chadwick

  3. Couch

  4. Eminence

  5. Koshkonong

  6. Bradleyville

  7. Lutie

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Class 1, District 5

  1. Walnut Grove

  2. School of the Ozarks

  3. Billings

  4. McAuley Catholic

  5. Exeter

  6. Hurley

  7. Everton

Class 1, District 6

  1. Lockwood

  2. Dadeville

  3. Halfway

  4. Humansville

  5. Fair Play

  6. Golden City

  7. Greenfield

Class 2, District 10

  1. Hartville

  2. Bakersfield

  3. Norwood

  4. Gainesville

  5. Dora

  6. Mansfield

  7. Fordland

Class 2, District 11

  1. Blue Eye

  2. Wheaton

  3. Galena

  4. Purdy

  5. Spokane

  6. Crane

  7. Gloria Deo

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Class 2, District 12

  1. Ash Grove

  2. Miller

  3. College Heights Christian

  4. Jasper

  5. Liberal

  6. Verona

  7. Thomas Jefferson

Class 2, District 13

  1. Weaubleau

  2. Osceola

  3. Rich Hill

  4. Marion C. Early

  5. Lakeland

  6. Lincoln

  7. Appleton City

Class 3, District 8

  1. Versailles

  2. Stover

  3. Cole Camp

  4. Skyline

  5. Warsaw

  6. Russellville

Class 3, District 10

  1. Thayer

  2. Mountain View

  3. Licking

  4. Seymour

  5. Willow Springs

  6. Alton

  7. Houston

Class 3, District 11

  1. Sparta

  2. Greenwood

  3. Fair Grove

  4. Forsyth

  5. Pleasant Hope

  6. Conway

  7. New Covenant

More: Ranking the Top 10 Springfield area high school boys' basketball teams so far this season

Class 3, District 12

  1. Southwest (Washburn)

  2. Marionville

  3. Lamar

  4. Sarcoxie

  5. Pierce City

  6. Diamond

Class 4, District 10

  1. Catholic

  2. Strafford

  3. Bolivar

  4. Eldon

  5. Osage

  6. Buffalo

Class 4, District 11

  1. Logan-Rogersville

  2. Mountain Grove

  3. Clever

  4. Ava

  5. Reeds Spring

  6. Hollister

Class 4, District 12

  1. Seneca

  2. Aurora

  3. Mount Vernon

  4. East Newton

  5. Cassville

  6. Monett

Class 5, District 6

  1. Parkview

  2. Rolla

  3. Willard

  4. Branson

  5. Marshfield

  6. Hillcrest

  7. McDonald County

  8. West Plains

Class 6, District 5

  1. Central

  2. Kickapoo

  3. Nixa

  4. Republic

  5. Glendale

  6. Ozark

  7. Neosho

  8. Joplin

Wyatt D. Wheeler is a reporter and columnist with the Springfield News-Leader. You can contact him at 417-371-6987, by email at wwheeler@news-leader.com or X at @WyattWheeler_NL.

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