Top 25 MaxPreps Boys Basketball National RankingsSee who is ranked in the initial national top 25 rankings.
The MaxPreps/JJHuddle Terrific 20 boys basketball rankings debut this season. The poll, created by JJHuddle senior basketball writer Kurt Stubbs, is an all-encompassing, all-divisional ranking. Every team in Ohio is eligible.
Here is who made the first cut.
1.) Jackson (Massillon) (0-0)*Idle
2.) Archbishop Moeller (Cincinnati) (1-0)*Defeated Pickerington North
3.) Pickerington Central (1-0)*Defeated Bowman Academy
4.) St. John's Jesuit (Toledo) (0-0)*Idle
5.) Wayne (Huber Heights) (0-0)*Idle
6.) Westerville South (2-0)*Defeated Westerville North and No. 17 Gahanna Lincoln
7.) Newark (2-0)Defeated Tri-Valley and Dayton Dunbar
8.) Trotwood-Madison (0-0)*Idle
9.) Garfield Heights (1-0)*Defeated Cleveland JFK
10.) St. Vincent-St. Mary (Akron) (1-0)*Defeated Cleveland CC

Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary and Jayvon Graves debut at No. 10 in the MaxPreps/JJHuddle Terrific 20.
Photo by Jeff Harwell
11.) Cleveland Heights (2-0)*Defeated Cleveland St. Ignatius and Cornerstone Christian
12.) St. Ignatius (Cleveland) (0-1)*Lost to Cleveland Heights
13.) Upper Arlington (Columbus) (1-0)*Defeated Greenfield McClain
14.) St. Edward (Lakewood) (2-0)*Defeated Lakewood and Cleveland John Marshall
15.) Pickerington North (0-1)*Lost to No. 2 Cincinnati Moeller
16.) Oak Hills (Cincinnati) (1-0)*Defeated Hilliard Bradley
17.) Lincoln (Gahanna) (1-1)*Defeated Chicago Von Steuben and lost to No. 6 Westerville South
18.) Hilliard Bradley (Hilliard) (1-1)*Defeated Teays Valley and lost to unranked Oak Hills
19.) Shaker Heights (0-0)*Idle
20.) Harding (Warren) (0-1)*Lost to unranked Youngstown Boardman
Challengers:Northland (Columbus),
Mentor,
La Salle (Cincinnati),
Lima Senior,
Lorain,
Mason,
Centerville,
Springfield,
Dunbar (Dayton),
Villa Angela-St. Joseph (Cleveland),
Roger Bacon (Cincinnati),
Summit Country Day (Cincinnati) and
Cornerstone Christian (Willoughby).