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KSR's 2025-26 Kentucky High School Boys Basketball Top 25 Rankings: Preseason

Zack Geogheganby: Zack Geoghegan4 hours agoZGeogheganKSR

The 2025-26 Kentucky high school boys basketball season has arrived!

With regular-season games tipping off Monday night, the road to Rupp Arena is officially underway. Which means there’s no better time to break out KSR’s preseason Top 25 statewide rankings. We’ll be rolling with nine voters from across the state for the upcoming season, with weekly updates to the poll coming out every Monday between now and the Sweet 16 in March. Along with the Top 25, seven additional teams made the receiving votes category.

Dive in below to see how the first rankings update of the season shook out.

KSR’s Top 25 Rankings: Preseason

  1. St. Xavier
  2. Covington Catholic
  3. Frederick Douglass
  4. George Rogers Clark
  5. Madison Central
  6. Bryan Station
  7. North Laurel
  8. Ballard
  9. Male
  10. Montgomery County
  11. Warren Central
  12. Daviess County
  13. Butler
  14. Jeffersontown
  15. Boyd County
  16. Caverna
  17. Grayson County
  18. Lexington Catholic
  19. Lyon County
  20. North Oldham
  21. Eastern
  22. Bell County
  23. Ashland Blazer
  24. Clinton County
  25. McCracken County

Others receiving votes: Woodford County (21), South Oldham (19), Marshall County (9), Adair County (2), Green County (2), Highlands (2), Martin County (2)

KSR Top 25 voters: Troy Howell, Clark Howell, Les Dixon, Sam Gormley, Lovell Martin, Phoenix Stevens, Joseph Decker, Jalen Daugherty, Travis Scaggs

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2025-12-01