Editor’s note: The Illinois-Basketball.com girls basketball rankings are an attempt to contextualize just how every team in the state stacks up with one another, regardless of the size of the school. 

The week ending Feb. 13 is the sixth week of rankings. It features more movement than any other edition. It took a lot of mental back-and-forth and plenty of switching around to try and get it all to feel right. With postseason play underway, now more than ever, these rankings don’t mean anything in terms of actual games being played. 

This is a long way of saying, some will not be particularly fond of this week’s rankings. 

With that preamble: Things got weird last week. When considering last week’s rankings, No. 1 Stevenson lost to No. 9 Nazareth. No. 4 Naperville North lost to Fenwick. No. 6 Sycamore lost to No. 14 Geneva. No. 19 Whitney Young beat No. 3 Kenwood in the Chicago City Championship game and that changed a ton about the rankings. No. 17 Okawville was beaten by unranked Breese Central. No. 25 Quincy Notre Dame was blasted by unranked 1A power Brimfield. 

It was the most agonizing ranking process I’ve undertaken since the first time we put these rankings out.