The Saint Ignatius varsity basketball team earned the third spot in the initial Associated Press big-school state rankings for 2014. On the strength of Saturday night's 3-0 victory over St. Edward at Winterhurst (see the corner's story from Saturday night), the Ice Cats (16-2-4) continued to hold down the top spot in the weekly voting by the state's hockey coaches.

Here is how a statewide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters voted for the top 10 basketball teams in Division I, with the first-place votes in parenthesis.

1, St. Edward (5) 7-1, 103
2,Trotwood Madison (4) 8-0, 96
3, Saint Ignatius (2) 7-1, 95
4, Cin. Moeller (2) 8-1, 84
5, Zanesville (1) 8-0, 74
6, Dublin Coffman 8-0, 64
7, Uniontown Lake (1) 9-0, 58
8, Berea-Midpark (3) 8-0, 53
9, Tol. Cent. Cath. (1) 8-1, 48
10, Perrysburg 9-0, 44