With the New Year rang all the way in, Michigan’s best boys basketball teams are starting to separate themselves from the rest of the state. That means it’s time for MLive’s first rankings of 2025.

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 Associated Press national player of the week in women’s basketball for Week 9 of the season: Ta’Niya Latson, Florida State The junior guard matched the program record with a 40-point effort against Virginia Tech to become the first player in the ACC to have 40 points this season.

For the fifth week in a row, Auburn men’s basketball remains No. 2 in the AP Top 25, trailing only Southeastern Conference foe Tennessee. The Tigers picked up 15 first place votes this week, compared to Tennessee’s 45.