{"id":392695,"date":"2026-01-05T08:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392695\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:03:59","slug":"syracuse-coms-boys-basketball-rankings-through-week-6-new-contender-emerges-in-class-aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392695\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse.com\u2019s boys basketball rankings (through Week 6): New contender emerges in Class AA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/highschoolsports\/\" title=\"Navigate to High School Sports News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High School Sports News<\/a>Updated: Jan. 04, 2026, 3:19 p.m.|Published: Jan. 04, 2026, 12:41 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"sports media day\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5QP6ERG3RRGSVNMEMRII5VLGZM.JPG\"  \/>The ESM boys basketball team, represented here by Anthony Bryant, Cole Vendetti, Robby Clifford and Ezra Wilson-Hefti at syracuse.com\u2019s winter sports media day, is No. 3 in Class AA this week.Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"72ETX6AQ6BG4HME2QTY7NGPLCA\">Syracuse, N.Y. \u2014 Weather derailed some holiday tournament matchups, but there were still plenty of marquee matchups between great teams that impacted where teams stand this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YEE4KWV3KJBUVCNIS3GQWHAMNM\">The biggest move comes from East Syracuse Minoa in Class AA. The Spartans are up to No. 3 in the class this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"V26QUJDAVBBRHJWYSXRVPD723M\">Looking ahead, ESM has a chance to really solidify itself among the top teams in the class with games against Fulton, Oswego and No. 1 Nottingham this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XCJECTMTOZGMZESOKKH5MKX3EI\">Rankings will be revealed on Mondays until the end of sectionals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kenny Lacy covers high school sports for Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard. He writes about all high school teams in Section III. Aside from typical game coverage, Kenny works to tell athletes&#8217; stories that go&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High School Sports NewsUpdated: Jan. 04, 2026, 3:19 p.m.|Published: Jan. 04, 2026, 12:41 p.m.The ESM boys basketball team,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-392695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}