Top 25 Georgia High School Boys Basketball Teams Across All Classifications
Preseason Rankings
The 2025-26 Georgia high school basketball season is near, exciting fans, coaches, and players statewide. ITG Next proudly presents our 2025-26 preseason top 25 rankings, highlighting the Georgia high school boys basketball programs poised for big impact in 2025. Rankings are based on returning talent, new transfers, last year’s results, and early team outlooks. Get ready for another thrilling season of Georgia high school basketball.
Wheeler is the top team to start the season. Head coach Larry Thompson led the Wildcats to their 10th boys basketball state championship last year, and they enter the 2025-26 season as Class 6A favorites again.
Wheeler returns the state’s top small forward, Colben Landrew, now a senior. Last year, Landrew helped seal the state title by scoring Wheeler’s last 10 points, turning a close contest with Newton into a 61-56 victory and securing the Class 6A championship.
Defending state champion Holy Innocents’ is a team to watch this season. Although the Golden Bears lose one of the nation’s most exciting players in Caleb Wilson as he takes his talents to North Carolina, there’s enough returning talent to keep Holy Innocents’ at the top of the Class 2A rankings and as one of the state’s best overall programs.
Shooting guard Devin Hutcherson and power forward Khalid Worthy are two of the best at their positions, and they’ll assume leadership duties this season for Holy Innocents’ head coach Mario Mays’ squad.
Another Holy Innocents’ player to watch this season is freshman point guard King Araujo. The 6-foot-3, 2029 player is one of the top athletic floor leaders in the state.
McEachern is the No. 3 team heading into the 2025-26 Georgia high school boys basketball season, and Indians head coach Tremayne Anchrum likes what he sees so far as his team prepares for the upcoming season.
“I feel good about our team,” Anchrum said. “We have some solid players that will lead us this season, including a really good guard in Zach Graves, and we also have Mason McMillan returning, and he is a shooter extraordinaire.”
Four-star combo guard Chase Lumpkin, a junior, will be the leader for the Indians this season. He is as talented a player as there is in Georgia, and his style of play impacts both ends of the floor. Lumpkin recently received an offer from the University of Georgia.
Other players Anchrum pointed out are Emmanuel Alofe, a 6-foot-7 junior forward whom the coach says has a 7-foot wingspan and is “super athletic,” and 6-foot-9 freshman guard Alvin Pettaway.
Pace Academy is the No. 4 team in our 2025-26 preseason Georgia high school boys basketball rankings after finishing as the state runner-up in Class 4A last season and ending a run of three straight state finals titles. Head coach Sharman White has overseen one of the most dominant boys basketball teams in the Peach State, and he’ll likely have the Knights right back in the mix once again in 2025-26 with two of the state’s top big men leading the team. Center Jake Agolli and power forward Hayden Clay are among the top at their respective positions in Georgia high school basketball for the 2026 season.
Rounding out the top five is Grayson. The Rams fell a little short last season, one year after winning the Class 6A state championship with one of the most dominating seasons in Georgia high school basketball history.
The Rams’ losses to graduation include strong forward Jacob Wilkins, Amir Taylor, and sharpshooter Chris McLavish. Caleb Holt transferred to Prolific Prep in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to finish out his senior season, and his loss is a big one for head coach Geoffrey Pierce and Grayson’s basketball squad. But the Rams will have a combination of seniors and good, young talent that Pierce seems to enjoy building from and succeeding with.
Grayson will be led by a couple of talented combo guard and wing players in junior Marcus Curry Jr., who transferred to Grayson from Grovetown this offseason, and freshman Austin Leonard.
Providing the leadership for Grayson this season will be senior guards Malik Rideout, who transferred from Peachtree Ridge this offseason; Tyler Williams; and Donovan Thomas. Junior Byron Lee is a physical 6-foot-7 forward and guard who will be a great complementary player for the Rams this year.
Rounding out the young but talented roster are freshman Jacori Thompson and sophomore Eli Tillman.
“I think we are a top five team in Class 6A for sure,” Pierce said. “Yes, we are young, but really talented.
A team to watch out for, and just outside the top five, is Alexander. The Cougars return every statistical leader from last season’s Class 5A quarterfinals squad, which won 22 games but ultimately fell to Hughes by 2 points in the third round of the state playoffs.
Coming back to lead the Cougars will be senior point guard Gregory Dunson, who averaged 18 points per game as the team’s floor general in 2024-25.
Senior shooting guard Torian Greene returns, as does power forward and center Christian More, the team’s leading rebounder from a year ago.
Marquise Leslie is a returning senior combo guard and forward who can do it all on the court, as he proved last year, ending the season in the top three of every statistical category for the Cougars. He is a Charleston Southern commit and will be one of the top emerging superstar seniors in the state this season.
Here is our entire 2025-26 preseason Georgia high school boys basketball rankings of the top 25 teams, regardless of classification.
- Wheeler (6A)
- Holy Innocents’ (2A)
- McEachern (6A)
- Pace Academy (4A)
- Grayson (6A)
- Alexander (5A)
- Newton (6A)
- Tri-Cities (5A)
- North Oconee (4A)
- Sandy Creek (3A)
- Carver (Columbus) (2A)
- Butler (2A)
- Berkmar (6A)
- Milton (5A)
- Savannah (1A-DII)
- Cross Creek (3A)
- Southwest (Macon) (1A-DI)
- Cedar Grove (3A)
- Woodward Academy (5A)
- Randolph-Clay (1A-DII)
- Pebblebrook (6A)
- Hughes (5A)
- Greene County (1A-DII)
- McIntosh County Academy (1A-DII)
- North Cobb Christian (2A)
