There is already a change at the top of the first Times-Tribune High School Boys Basketball Poll, while the girls\u2019 ranking sees little shakeup.<\/p>\n
Riverside, led by the high-scoring Nico Antoniacci, takes over as the No. 1 team in the boys ranking, and Scranton Prep is anchored at No. 1 among the girls teams.<\/p>\n
Last week, Valley View, which debuts in the poll, knocked off Holy Cross to create the movement.<\/p>\n
Riverside is off to a 3-0 start with impressive performances from Antoniacci. The Vikings\u2019 best win came against District 1 Penncrest, which reached the PIAA Class 4A quarterfinals last season.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights is 2-0 in the early season. The Comets climbed three places to No. 2.<\/p>\n
Dunmore (3-0) is off to a fast start and moved up three places to No. 3. The Bucks averaged 68.3 points per game and won by an average margin of 39.0 points.<\/p>\n
Valley View, which didn\u2019t have any returning starters from last season\u2019s District 2 Class 4A championship team that reached the PIAA semifinals, jumps into the poll at No. 4.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep split its two games at the North Catholic Tip-off Tournament in western Pennsylvania and is ranked No. 5.<\/p>\n
Delaware Valley won its first three games to move one place in the poll to No. 6.<\/p>\n
Holy Cross, which is without injured guard CJ Thompson, fell from No. 1 to No. 7 after opening with a win over Fannie Lou Hamer and a loss to Valley View.<\/p>\n
Old Forge lost to the host Wolfpack in the title game of the Wilkes-Barre Area Tournament and dropped from No. 3 to No. 8.<\/p>\n
Elk Lake stayed at No. 9 after two wins, and Lackawanna Trail is No. 10 after it won the Cal King Tournament championship.<\/p>\n
In the girls\u2019 ranking, Scranton Prep is 2-0 after wins over Wyoming Valley West and Bethlehem Liberty. The Classics are a unanimous choice at No. 1.<\/p>\n
Dunmore stayed at No. 2, while North Pocono (3-0) and Abington Heights (1-1) swapped places at No. 3 and No. 4.<\/p>\n
Mountain View is 3-0, which includes a win over Pocono Mountain East, and moved up one place into the top five.<\/p>\n
Valley View, which lost to Dunmore last week in a nonleague game, is at No. 6.<\/p>\n
Wallenpaupack, unranked in the preseason, defeated East Stroudsburg North, Stroudsburg, and Western Wayne to land at No. 7.<\/p>\n
Scranton lost to Crestwood and Dallas, two top teams from the Wyoming Valley Conference, and tumbled three places to eighth.<\/p>\n
Honesdale, which lost to No. 3 North Pocono, is down one spot to ninth, and Elk Lake, which has not played a game, is at No. 10.<\/p>\n
2025-26 WEEK 1 TIMES-TRIBUNE BOYS TOP 10<\/p>\n
1. Riverside (3-0)<\/p>\n
2. Abington Heights (2-0)<\/p>\n
3. Dunmore (3-0)<\/p>\n
4. Valley View (2-0)<\/p>\n
5. Scranton Prep (1-1)<\/p>\n
6. Delaware Valley (3-0)<\/p>\n
7. Holy Cross (1-1)<\/p>\n
8. Old Forge (1-1)<\/p>\n
9. Elk Lake (2-0)<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0 Lackawanna Trail (2-1)<\/p>\n
2025-26 WEEK 1 TIMES-TRIBUNE BOYS GIRLS 10<\/p>\n
1. Scranton Prep (2-0)<\/p>\n
2. Dunmore (1-0)<\/p>\n
3. North Pocono (3-0)<\/p>\n
4. Abington Heights (1-1)<\/p>\n
5. Mountain View (3-0)<\/p>\n
6. Valley View (2-1)<\/p>\n
7. Wallenpaupack (3-0)<\/p>\n
8. Scranton (0-2)<\/p>\n
9. Honesdale (2-1)<\/p>\n
10. Elk Lake (0-0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is already a change at the top of the first Times-Tribune High School Boys Basketball Poll, while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-54963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-high-school-sports","9":"tag-scranton","10":"tag-scranton-headlines","11":"tag-scranton-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}