3 New Entries In Girls Basketball Top 10

CONNECTICUT — It is another unusual week in balloting for the best high school girls basketball teams in Connecticut, as one school was a unanimous top pick, six of the top seven teams begin with the letter N, and three teams which were unranked last week cracked the top 10.

Notre Dame-Fairfield collected all 17 first-place votes to remain comfortably on top of the rankings. Norwich Free Academy and Staples High School each moved up two spots into second and third, respectively.

Here are the top 10, with last week's ranking in parentheses, as well as all other schools gaining support.

1. Notre Dame-Fairfield (lw: 1)
2. Norwich Free Academy (lw: 4)
3. Staples (lw: 5)
4. Newtown (lw: 2)
5. Newington (lw: 7)
6. New London (lw: 8)
7. Norwalk (lw: 3)
8. Trumbull (lw: N/R)
9. Berlin (lw: N/R)
10. Stamford (lw: N/R)

Also receiving votes: Southington, Wethersfield, St. Paul, Bloomfield, Bacon Academy, East Catholic, Glastonbury, Canton, Daniel Hand, Shelton, Sheehan.

Voters: Tim Jensen, Patch; Media Corp.; Lori Riley, Hartford Courant; Scott Ericson, GametimeCT; Mike Madera, New Haven Register; Dave Phillips, Shoreline Newspapers; Dave Ruden, The Ruden Report; Jimmy Zanor, Norwich Bulletin; Scotty Nails, Rye Country Day School; Brian Medeiros, Canton; Vickie Fulkerson, New London Day; Fred Williams, Northwestern Regional; Rick Wilson, Waterbury Republican American; Sean Krofssik, Record-Journal; Ryan Chichester, Bristol Press; Rich Zalusky, The Chronicle; Dave Danko, Fairfield Warde; Adam Betz, Journal Inquirer. Compiled by Scott Ericson.