The first batch of boys high school basketball rankings from Michigan Sports Writers released Tuesday night. Check out each division here:

There's a new No. 1 in the Maryland high school boys basketball rankings 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.

Here’s a look at the First Edition of the 2024-25 IHSAA Boys Basketball rankings: Class 4A RANK SCHOOL W L 1 Cedar Falls 7 0 2 Valley, W.D.M. 7 2 3 Waukee Northwest 6 2 4 Cedar Rapids, Kennedy 5 2 5 Johnston 7 2 6 Muscatine 6 0 7

The high school winter season is a little more than a month old and one fact is clear: The South Shore is loaded with girls basketball talent. The area was shut out of state titles last season, but there are plenty of contenders across several divisions ready to change that narrative. Narrowing this list down to the top 10 was no easy task.

Even though we have entered a new year, the top girls basketball teams from the Ann Arbor area continue to look like the best of the best. And while the area’s best have not let up, there are other teams around the area who have also had strong performances so far this season.

Top performers in high school athletics for the week of Jan. 6-12: Boys basketball has two players who went for 30-plus points.

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. It was no easy task,