Nebraska High School Girls Basketball Coaches Poll 1-12-26

Each week during the high school basketball season, select coaches from the six Nebraska classes rate the teams in their class and our Tony Chapman compiles the rankings. Here is the fourth in-season poll for the 2025-26 season. Records are through games played on Saturday, Jan. 10. 

Class A (Record), Previous 

1. Lincoln North Star (10-0), 1
2. Omaha North (9-3), 3 
3. Millard West (9-1), 2
4. Kearney (12-0), 4 
5. Omaha Westside (11-4), 8
6. Omaha Westview (8-4), 5 
7. Lincoln Northeast (8-2), 9 
8. Millard South (7-4), 10 
9. Millard North (7-4), 6
10. Lincoln Southwest (7-4), 7 

Receiving Votes: Lincoln High (7-3), NR; Papillion-La Vista (8-4), RV. 

Class B (Record), Previous

1. Bennington (13-0), 1
2. Norris (11-1), 2
3. Lincoln Pius X (8-2), 4 
4. Gretna East (7-5), 3 
5. Sidney (11-1), 5
6. Blair (6-2), 6
7. Gretna (7-4), 8
8. Elkhorn North (5-5), 7
9. Beatrice (9-2), 10 
10. Skutt Catholic (5-8), NR

Receiving Votes: Gross Catholic (7-4), 9; Scottsbluff (7-5), RV; Waverly (5-5), RV. 

Class C-1 (Record), Previous

1. Lincoln Christian (12-0), 2 
2. Milford (12-1), 3
3. Malcolm (11-1), 1
4. Gothenburg (9-2), 4
5. Ogallala (10-1), 5
6. Central City (11-1), 6
7. O’Neill (11-1), 7
8. Fort Calhoun (10-1), 8
9. Holdrege (9-3), 10
10. Omaha Nation (12-1), NR

Receiving Votes: Louisville (11-2), NR; Minden (7-3), RV; Pierce (9-3), NR.

Class C-2 (Record), Previous

1. Pender (12-1), 1
2. Elkhorn Valley (11-0), 3 
3. Oakland-Craig (11-2), 2
4. Guardian Angels CC (11-1), 4
5. Alma (11-1), 5
6. Elmwood-Murdock (10-1), 6
7. Hastings St. Cecilia (10-1), 9 
8. Crofton (11-3), 7 
9. Yutan (9-2), 10
10. Sandy Creek (11-2), 8

Receiving Votes: Centura (9-2), RV.

Class D-1 (Record), Previous

1. Bloomfield (11-0), 2 
2. Maywood-Hayes Center (12-1), 4
3. Howells-Dodge (8-3), 1
4. Elm Creek (10-2), 3
5. Amherst (9-3), 5
6. Tri County (9-3), 6
7. Elgin Public-Pope John (11-2), 7
8. Overton (9-2), 8
9. Arapahoe (10-2), NR 
10. Bancroft-Rosalie (9-3), NR

Receiving Votes: Central Valley (11-1), NR; Sutton (9-3), 9.

Class D-2 (Record), Previous

1. Dundy County Stratton (10-0), 1
2. Falls City Sacred Heart (8-3), 2
3. Red Cloud (9-1), 3
4. Archangels Catholic (8-4), 4
5. Cambridge (7-3), 6 
6. Silver Lake (9-1), 7
7. Wynot (6-6), 5
8. McCool Junction (8-3), 8
9. Paxton (7-4), 9
10. Dorchester (10-1), 10

Receiving votes: Anselmo-Merna (8-4), RV; Mullen (6-4), RV; SEM (6-2), NR.