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.

There are two new teams in the latest Maryland high school girls basketball Top 25 poll as weather has affected the early portion of this week’s schedule. Games Monday and Tuesday were postponed as Winter Storm Blaire brought several inches of snow and icy conditions to the Mid-Atlantic region Sunday and Monday.

The Big Ten and Southeastern Conference each has seven teams ranked in the AP top 25 women’s basketball poll, including four apiece in the first 10

Mississippi State women's basketball is off to a poor start in SEC play but remains in the latest NCAA tournament field projections. The Bulldogs (13-3, 0-2 SEC) were pummeled in both of their conference games by Kentucky and South Carolina.

The first full week of women’s college basketball returned this week as the calendar page flipped to 2025. With all conferences now fully in league play, teams throughout the top-25 rankings faced off against programs in and just out of the weekly AP poll.