When St. John Bosco High School (Calif.) five-star guard Brandon McCoy Jr. visited the Duke basketball program in early November, the 6-foot-4, 170-pound junior checked in at No. 1 overall in the 2026 class, both in the eyes of On3 and on the 247Sports 2026 Composite. He still sits atop the composite rankings.

The holiday season is anything but time off for the area’s top high school basketball teams. Such squads, particularly those with national reputations, traveled to locales as far as Hawaii, as well as up and down the East Coast,

The New York State Sportswriters Association released its latest boys basketball rankings of the 2024-25 season on Tuesday. A new Section III team joined the top 10 of its respective class to give the CNY section seven teams in the top 10 this week.

For the third straight week, Duke basketball is the only ACC representative in the AP Top 25 Poll. That said, Cooper Flagg & Co.'s next opponent, Blue Devil alum Jeff Capel's Pitt