By Steve Tappa, stappa@qconline.com
Moline Dispatch/Rock Island Argus prep basketball writer
Originally Posted Online: Feb. 22, 2009, 10:51 pm
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The Top 6 boys’ teams remained the same this week in the Quad Cities Prep Basketball Power Poll.
However, former No. 1 Moline continued to lose ground to top-ranked Bettendorf, with the Maroons falling on the road for a second straight Saturday, albeit at fellow state-rated Lincoln, this past weekend.
Bettendorf (18-3) again earned 13 of the 14 first-place votes, and 137 of a possible 140 voting points, in the first boys-only local poll of the season. The final girls’ rankings were released last week, as the final local girls’ teams entered postseason action.
Bettendorf’s postseason-bound Mississippi Athletic Conference champions have been No. 1 for the last three weeks.
In this week’s balloting by the sports staffs at WQAD-TV, The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus, Moline (19-5) received the other first-place nod — thanks to a head-to-head win over Bettendorf just before Christmas.
Still, the already-crowned Western Big 6 Conference champs saw their voting totals drop from 121 points to 113.5.
By Steve Tappa, stappa@qconline.com
Moline Dispatch/Rock Island Argus prep basketball writer
Originally Posted Online: Feb. 16, 2009, 12:36 am
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Losses by their biggest challengers, coupled with impressive wins of their own, allowed the Bettendorf boys’ and Moline girls’ to tighten their grip on their respective No. 1 rankings in this week’s Quad Cities Prep Basketball Power Polls.
Both received 13 of the 14 first-place votes cast by the sports staffs at WQAD-TV, The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus.
In today’s eighth installment of this season’s local rankings, the only other first-place nods went to the No. 2 Moline boys (18-4) and No. 3 Sterling Newman girls (25-1).
By Steve Tappa, stappa@qconline.com
Moline Dispatch/Rock Island Argus prep basketball writer
Originally Posted Online: Feb. 08, 2009, 11:35 pm
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The debate over who’s No. 1 in the Quad Cities Prep Basketball Power Polls has heated up heading into the final month of the season.
Losses over the weekend by both of last week’s top-ranked teams, the Moline boys and girls, opened the door to their respective challengers in the joint effort by WQAD-TV, The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus.
In today’s seventh installment of this season’s local rankings, Bettendorf (14-3) replaced the Moline boys (17-3) by a whisker, while the Moline girls (23-5) retained their season-long top spot, but continued to lose ground to No. 2 Annawan (26-2).
By Steve Tappa, stappa@qconline.com
Moline Dispatch/Rock Island Argus prep basketball writer
Posted Online: Feb. 01, 2009, 7:20 pm
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A combined record of 36-6 by last week’s Top 10s kept this week’s Quad Cities Prep Basketball Power Polls pretty much status quo.
In balloting by the sports staffs at WQAD-TV, The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus, 13 of last week’s 20 Top 10-ranked teams held their lofty positions.
