OSN Power Rankings 

Josh Callaway  January 21st, 2021 

 

The high school basketball season is rolling on into late January and this is where the games start to really pick up significant importance. 

The amount of time to improve your resume for the postseason is shrinking, but the opportunities are still there. 

A rough patch or a hot streak could be the difference in playoff positioning that helps you make a run or go out early. This is go time. 

As we push onward through the month of January, here are the latest OSN Power Rankings.

 

LARGE SCHOOLS (BOYS) 

#1 Edmond Memorial – Last Week: #1 

Edmond Memorial stays at the top spot after a 71-44 thrashing of a solid Yukon team last Friday. They unfortunately had their game with Norman North get postponed. That would have been a fantastic matchup, but that’s the nature of the season we are in. It is hard to justify moving them down at this point, but their matchup with Edmond North next week is going to tell us a lot. 

#2 Kingfisher – Last Week: #2 

The Yellow Jackets are so good. Like, so so good. It was extremely tempting to move them up to the #1 spot after their blowout wins over Tuttle, Clinton and Blanchard this week, but given they still have their lone loss early in the year to Edmond Memorial…it was hard to make that move. But, they are very close. 

#3 Carl Albert – Last Week: #4 

The Titans picked up their biggest win of the year last week when they knocked off Heritage Hall – a team that has been toward the top of our rankings all season long. They have simply earned this jump into the top-3 and belong in the conversation amongst the elite teams in the state.

#4 Edmond North – Last Week: #5 

#5 Heritage Hall – Last Week: #3 

#6 Lawton MacArthur – Last Week: #6 

#7 Memorial – Last Week: #7 

#8 Crossings Christian – Last Week: #8 

#9 Hugo – Last Week: #9 

#10 Norman North – Last Week: #10 

LARGE SCHOOLS (GIRLS) 

#1 Norman – Last Week: #1 

Norman’s vice grip on the top spot got a lot tighter after their long-awaited matchup with Edmond North went down with them coming out on top 69-62. They also knocked off a very good Moore team since our last rankings as well. Their resume is fantastic and they’ve beaten some of the best, the #1 ranking is deservedly theirs. 

#2 Union – Last Week: #4 

Union has done nothing but keep winning and steadily climbing up our rankings. They rivaled Norman’s impressive Edmond North win with a big-time 68-49 victory over Sapulpa. They are 12-0 and looked to have separated themselves from the pack along with Norman. 

#3 Edmond North – Last Week: #2 

Edmond North hangs onto their top-3 spot since they are still an obviously great team with a competitive loss to a sensational Norman squad. It will be hard for them to climb back up and over the teams in front of them without playing either of them for the remainder of the season, but they still have some resume-builders left on their schedule. 

#4 Tuttle – Last Week: #5

#5 Sapulpa – Last Week: #3 

#6 Weatherford – Last Week: #6 

#7 Ft. Gibson – Last Week: #7 

#8 Roland – Last Week: #8 

#9 Anadarko – Last Week: #9 

#10 Classen SAS – Last Week: NR 

SMALL SCHOOLS (BOYS) 

#1 Hydro-Eakly – Last Week: #2 

We have a new No. 1 team among the small schools. Hydro-Eakly is 13-0 and has just kept winning while the teams around them have slipped up. They have earned the spot due to being among the most consistent teams in the entire state, and they’ll have more chances to prove themselves by month’s end. 

#2 Varnum – Last Week: #5 

Varnum climbs into the No. 2 ranking for reasons very similar to Hydro-Eakly. They just keep winning. A 14-0 record in this tumultuous high school basketball season is wildly impressive. There are good wins peppered throughout their schedule and they have to be considered among the elite teams right now. 

#3 Hooker – Last Week: #3 

Hooker stays at No. 3 despite dropping their first game of the season thanks to two reasons. Firstly that they are still really darn good with lots of good wins. The second being they benefit a bit from teams around them in the rankings falling. Roff’s loss and Dale’s losses help them here, but they still are very good and deserve to be up high on their own merrit. 

#4 Oklahoma Union – Last Week: #6 

#5 Ft. Cobb-Broxton – Last Week: #7

#6 Roff – Last Week: #1 

#7 Cashion – Last Week: NR 

#8 Dale – Last Week: #4 

#9 Calumet – Last Week: #8 

#10 Pawnee – Last Week: #10 

SMALL SCHOOLS (GIRLS) 

#1 Vanoss – Last Week: #1 

Vanoss is 16-0. Do I even need to say anything else? They have been the top team in our rankings for over a month now because they just won’t stop winning. It is impossible to move them off. 

#2 Lomega – Last Week: #2 

Lomega stands at 12-0 and just scored 111 (!) points in a blowout win over Ringwood on Tuesday night. It is totally within reason to think they may completely run the table through the regular season. Not only can they score obscene numbers, they play defense. They held Deer Creek-Lamont to only four points the entire game last week. That is not a typo, they won the game 92-4. 

#3 Dale – Last Week: #3 

Dale is really good. They may not be undefeated like Vanoss and Lomega, but they did avenge their only loss of the season against another top team in Silo. They have won nine straight games with several impressive victories along the way, they deserve a lot of credit. 

#4 Silo – Last Week: #4 

#5 Hydro-Eakly – Last Week: #5 

#6 Howe – Last Week: #6

#7 Crowder – Last Week: #7 #8 Amber-Pocasset – Last Week: #9 #9 Varnum – Last Week: #10 #10 Seiling – Last Week: NR

OSN Power Rankings 

Josh Callaway  January 7th, 2021 

The first OSN Power Rankings of 2021 have arrived. 

This is where the season gets really fun. Everything to this point has been largely based on projections and expectations – now teams start to separate from the pack. 

Practically every single team will play multiple games every single week the rest of the way. We are going to know what teams are the best very soon. 

As the playoff picture begins to take shape, here are the first OSN Power Rankings of the new year.

LARGE SCHOOLS (BOYS) 

#1 Edmond Memorial – 12/23: #1 

Edmond Memorial remains the top team in the state. They didn’t have an early game this week to pad their resume further, but right now they have to remain as No. 1. That win over Kingfisher is among the best that any team has and they are undefeated, so it is still their spot for now. 

#2 Heritage Hall – 12/23: #2 

Heritage Hall is in a similar position as Edmond Memorial in that they did not have an early game this week so it is hard to move them off of their spot. Their resume of wins is so impressive, including a 20-point win over Lawton MacArthur. They have a great argument to be No. 1 and will have their chance to get that top spot soon. 

#3 Lawton MacArthur – 12/23: #4 

This is our first shakeup, with MacArthur making the leap into the top three. The debate between them and Memorial is strong, with the two teams having split their meetings so far this season. But MacArthur’s win over Putnam City West, a team Memorial lost to, really tightened the gap. Then they went and got a blowout win over Piedmont this week that has pushed their way to No. 3.

#4 Memorial – 12/23: #3 

#5 Crossings Christian – 12/23: #5 

#6 Kingfisher – 12/23: #6 

#7 Putnam City North – 12/23: #7 

#8 Millwood – 12/23: #8 

#9 Carl Albert – 12/23: #9 

#10 Hugo – 12/23: NR 

LARGE SCHOOLS (GIRLS) 

#1 Norman – 12/23: #2 

We have a new top dog in the girls large schools rankings. Norman is 6-0 and they are fresh off of a 50-point demolition of a solid Deer Creek team earlier this week. Their resume of wins is exceptionally strong and they are deserving of the top spot, and they’ll have more huge chances coming up to tighten their grip on the No. 1 ranking. 

#2 Edmond North – 12/23: #1 

Edmond North drops from No. 1 to No. 2 after their overtime loss to Mustang. They got beat, simple as that. But, they are still a fantastic team that will certainly be a heavy contender for the title in 6A. Again, absolutely can’t wait for Edmond North and Norman to square off on Jan. 19th. 

#3 Weatherford – 12/23: NR 

How about this, the Lady Eagles go from unranked all the way up to No. 3 in this week’s rankings. Weatherford has flat out put out an unbelievable resume of wins, highlighted by a victory over a sensational Anadarko team. Their only loss was a 6-point game to Edmond North. They have earned this spot. 

#4 Sapulpa – 12/23: #4

#5 Ft. Gibson – 12/23: #5 

#6 Moore – 12/23: NR 

#7 Carl Albert – 12/23: #6 

#8 Roland – 12/23: #7 

#9 Union – 12/23: #8 

#10 Anadarko – 12/23: #3 

SMALL SCHOOLS (BOYS) 

#1 Roff – 12/23: #1 

It is hard to move Roff off of the top spot as it currently stands. The smaller school rankings are incredibly top heavy with many of the best teams having not played each other at this point. Also, many schools are yet to return to action after the holiday break, so these rankings won’t have many shakeups. 

#2 Hydro-Eakly – 12/23: #2 

Same situation as Roff, Hydro-Eakly doesn’t have any new results under the belt since the last rankings and thus it is hard to have any reason to move them around. The small school rankings will largely stay the same this week. 

#3 Hooker – 12/23: #3 

Hooker is actually one of the smaller schools who has returned to action in 2021, picking up two wins over Class A schools. As all these teams heavily return to action with tournaments and matchups against one another, there will be a much greater chance for movement in the rankings going forward through January. 

#4 Dale – 12/23: #4 

#5 Varnum – 12/23: #5 

#6 Arapaho-Butler – 12/23: #6

#7 Oklahoma Union – 12/23: #7 

#8 Ft. Cobb-Broxton – 12/23: #8 

#9 Calumet – 12/23: #9 

#10 Garber – 12/23: NR 

SMALL SCHOOLS (GIRLS) 

#1 Vanoss – 12/23: #1 

Vanoss has a vice grip on the top spot right now. They are 9-0, they have beaten some really good teams, and they have simply earned it. It is going to be extremely difficult to take them off of the No. 1 ranking without them losing a game somewhere down the road. 

#2 Silo – 12/23: #2 

Like we were saying in the boys small school rankings, many of the smaller schools haven’t returned to action much yet. So, the rankings will largely stay the same this week. Silo’s win over Dale is still one of the very best that anyone has, there is no way they should be moved down as things currently stand. 

#3 Lomega – 12/23: #4 

Lomega cracks the top-3 with another win picked up this week over Okeene to move them to 6-0 on the season. They are undefeated with good wins, so they get the spot narrowly over Leedey, who is hot on their tails. 

#4 Leedey – 12/23: #5 

#5 Hydro-Eakly – 12/23: #3 

#6 Howe – 12/23: #7 

#7 Crowder – 12/23: #6 

#8 Varnum – 12/23: #8

#9 Dale – 12/23: #9 

#10 Amber-Pocasset – 12/23: #10

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OSN Power Rankings

Josh Callaway December 23rd, 2020

We’ve now entered the winter break portion of the high school basketball season, with many
teams having the next couple of weeks off before diving into the very busy January and February
schedule in the run up to the playoffs.
After three weeks of action, there has been a lot of fun games across the state and some solid
movement in our rankings. However, many teams did not play last week so the movement isn’t
quite as high this week as others, but there was still some shifting.

Here are the final OSN Power Rankings of 2020:

LARGE SCHOOLS (BOYS)

#1 Edmond Memorial – Last Week: #1

While Edmond Memorial did not play last week, I have a really hard time moving them off of
the top spot. They are a seriously talented group and that win over Kingfisher is going to look
better and better as the year goes on. The top spot still belongs to them for now.

#2 Heritage Hall – Last Week: #2

It is pretty much impossible to move the Chargers off of the #2 spot given who they have beaten
already in this young season. They have knocked off Del City, Carl Albert and Lawton
MacArthur among others – creating as strong of a resume as anybody. They are nipping at
Edmond Memorial’s heels for the top ranking.

#3 Memorial – Last Week: #5

Memorial climbs back into the top three because they were a team that managed to get two
games played last week and got two really solid wins over Victory Christian and Hilldale. Our
original top-ranked team, they took a couple of tough losses in the Norman Invitational that slid
them down. It was very impressive the way they bounced back last week.

#4 Lawton MacArthur – Last Week: #4

#5 Crossings Christian – Last Week: #3
#6 Kingfisher – Last Week: #6
#7 Putnam City North – Last Week: #7
#8 Millwood – Last Week: #8
#9 Carl Albert – Last Week: #10
#10 Community Christian – Last Week: NR

LARGE SCHOOLS (GIRLS)

#1 Edmond North – Last Week: #1

Edmond North didn’t play last week, but I still have a hard time moving them off the top spot.
Their resume is so good to this point and that win over Sapulpa is helping keep them here. The
battle between them and Norman for the top ranking is a coin flip right now.

#2 Norman – Last Week: #2

Same situation with Norman as Edmond North, they didn’t play last week but I am not going to
move them down just because of that. They could easily be put #1 and I wouldn’t argue with that
either. I can’t wait for these two top teams and to go at it on January 19th.

#3 Anadarko – Last Week: #6

We all knew the Lady Warriors were good, but they had a hard time rising in the rankings given
that they still had not played a game until last week. After shaking the rust off against Chickasha,
they went on the road and got an impressive win over Tuttle to move to 2-0. This team is really
good and could beat anyone in the state.

#4 Sapulpa – Last Week: #4
#5 Ft. Gibson – Last Week: #3
#6 Carl Albert – Last Week: #9

#7 Roland – Last Week: #5
#8 Union – Last Week: #7
#9 Classen SAS – Last Week: NR
#10 Jones – Last Week: #10

SMALL SCHOOLS (BOYS)

#1 Roff – Last Week: #1

Roff keeps at the #1 spot despite not playing last week because even with being idle all week
they have played, and won, more games than anyone else. 9-0 is 9-0 and they have earned being
the top team going into the winter break.

#2 Hydro-Eakly – Last Week: #2

Hydro-Eakly stays at #2 after getting to take the court again last week and picking up a win over
Sentinel to go to 7-0. This team was #1 in the original rankings and has a great chance to get
back there after the new year. They have some very interesting games coming up toward the end
of January that I am looking forward to.

#3 Hooker – Last Week: #5

Hooker moves into the top three over Dale due to the fact that they have the single best win
between the two, beating Cashion, and they were able to add onto that resume last week with
another win over a squad from Texas. They’ve just shown a little more to this point, they get that
#3 spot.

#4 Dale – Last Week: #3
#5 Varnum – Last Week: #4
#6 Arapaho-Butler – Last Week: #7
#7 Oklahoma Union – Last Week: #8
#8 Ft. Cobb-Broxton – Last Week: #6

#9 Calumet – Last Week: #10
#10 Battiest – Last Week: NR

SMALL SCHOOLS (GIRLS)

#1 Vanoss – Last Week: #1

The Wolves were inactive last week, but at 9-0 that isn’t going to be enough to move them off of
the #1 ranking. It is really hard to differentiate between Vanoss and Silo for the #1 ranking right
now, but some common opponents after the break may provide some more clarity.

#2 Silo – Last Week: #2

Vanoss and Silo are extremely similar to Edmond North and Norman for the big school girls
rankings – you can flip a coin on who deserves to be #1 right now. Unfortunately they aren’t
scheduled to play in the regular season, but that very well could change come playoff time.
These teams are easily among the elite of the small schools.

#3 Hydro-Eakly – Last Week: #5

Hydro-Eakly jumps up into the top three due to a big win over 2A Merritt that improved them to
7-0 on the season. In a week where many other top teams didn’t have games, they went out and
beat a good team in the class above them. That is hard to ignore.

#4 Lomega – Last Week: #3
#5 Leedey – Last Week: #4
#6 Crowder – Last Week: #6
#7 Howe – Last Week: #10
#8 Varnum – Last Week: #7
#9 Dale – Last Week: #8
#10 Amber-Pocasset – Last Week: #9