WJG SPORTS BASKETBALL POWER RANKINGS NO. 1

Football season has come and gone in the WJG Sports coverage area. All-area teams have been announced and you can find those on our website. We’re now fully into the 2019-20 high school basketball season here at WJG Sports. After much consideration, we’ve decided to bring back the WJG power rankings for girls and boys basketball in Wayne, Johnston, and Greene County.

We’ll have a top 10 player and team rankings list for both the girls and the boys that’ll be updated every week until the state playoffs. Coming into the new year, a lot of teams have made really good cases to be among the top teams in the area. With that in mind, here are the first set of power rankings as of January 6, 2020.

Girls’ Team Rankings

1. Wayne Country Day (13-4)
2. Clayton (9-3)
3. Smithfield-Selma (7-3)
4. C.B. Aycock (7-5)
5. North Johnston (8-1)
6. Princeton (7-3)
7. Wayne Christian (8-4)
8. Corinth Holders (5-6)
9. Southern Wayne (7-7)
10. West Johnston (5-8)

Boys’ Team Rankings

1. Goldsboro (8-1)
2. Clayton (10-2)
3. Wayne Country Day (16-3)
4. Cleveland (11-2)
5. South Johnston (10-1)
6. Princeton (6-3)
7. C.B. Aycock (7-5)
8. Greene Central (6-4)
9. Southern Wayne (6-7)
10. Wayne Christian (8-6)

Girls’ Player of the Year Rankings

1. Wayne Country Day freshman guard Ja’kea Brunson
2. Clayton freshman forward Darrionna Howard
3. Smithfield-Selma junior forward Khaliyah Peacock
4. Neuse Charter freshman Anna Taylor
5. Spring Creek senior guard Belinda Carson
6. Greene Central senior guard Jaanasia Edwards
7. Wayne Christian sophomore guard Brianna Verme
8. C.B. Aycock junior forward Abbey Thomas
9. Princeton junior guard Meredith Wooten
10. North Johnston junior guard Arial Pearce

Boys’ Player of the Year Rankings

1. Clayton junior forward BJ Freeman
2. South Johnston senior forward CJ Ray
3. Goldsboro junior forward Xavion Atkinson
4. Wayne Country Day junior guard Jaden Cooper
5. Cleveland junior guard Walter Ghaffar
6. Wayne Christian sophomore guard Jayquan Curry
7. Princeton sophomore guard Nayshin Waller
8. Goldsboro senior guard Christian Bullock
9. Greene Central senior BJ Corbitt
10. C.B. Aycock senior guard Charles Walker II

Kai Jones

I grew up in Goldsboro, North Carolina, graduated from Wayne Country Day School and I love my hometown. I also love sports, and have turned that passion into a career. Through my time at the Kinston Free Press and Johnstonian News I got to cover Johnston and Greene Counties, and fell in love with both communities. I love the area I cover, and I hope I do the communities proud with this website.

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