Three East Texas teams ranked No. 1 in TABC preseason rankings<\/p>\n
Published 12:26 pm Monday, October 13, 2025<\/p>\n
The Texas Association of Basketball Coaches released their preseason rankings for the 2025-26 high school basketball season, and several East Texas programs received recognition.<\/p>\n
Martin\u2019s Mill boys and girls \u2014 both coming off of state championships \u2014 are ranked No. 1 in Class 2A.<\/p>\n
Palestine Westwood boys, led by five-star quarterback and four-star combo guard Kavian Bryant, is ranked No. 1 in Class 3A.<\/p>\n
The Tyler Lady Lions are ranked No. 17 in Class 5A girls.<\/p>\n
Brook Hill, coming off of its first trip to the state tournament, is ranked No. 2 in TAPPS 5A\/SPC 3A girls. Bishop Gorman is No. 7 in TAPPS 4A girls. Longview Christian Heritage is No. 5 in TAPPS 2A girls. In TAPPS 1A girls, Nacogdoches Regents is No. 9, and Longview St. Mary\u2019s is No. 10.<\/p>\n
In Class 4A girls, Mabank is No. 8 and Canton No. 14.<\/p>\n
In Class 3A girls, Winnsboro is No. 4, Malakoff No. 13 and Hooks No. 16.<\/p>\n
Joining Martin\u2019s Mill as ranked teams in Class 2A girls are No. 6 LaPoynor, No. 13 Tenaha, No. 16 Chireno, No. 17 Hawkins and No. 25 Douglass.<\/p>\n
In Class 1A girls, Broaddus is No. 2, Neches No. 5, Brookeland No. 6, Zavalla No. 18 and Avinger No. 20.<\/p>\n
Lufkin is ranked No. 17 in Class 5A boys. Paris is No. 13 and Chapel Hill No. 20 in Class 4A boys.<\/p>\n
Other Class 3A boys teams ranked are No. 6 Liberty-Eylau, No. 13 Jefferson, No. 19 Hooks and No. 25 Tatum.<\/p>\n
Other Class 2A boys teams ranked are No. 14 San Augustine, No. 17 Gary, No. 21 Frankston, No. 23 Hawkins and No. 24 Clarksville.<\/p>\n
In Class 1A boys, Brookeland is No. 4, Wells No. 10, Kennard No. 11, Groveton Centerville No. 12 and Slocum No. 13.<\/p>\n
In TAPPS 5A\/SPC 3A boys, Brook Hill is No. 6. Bishop Gorman is No. 5 in TAPPS 4A boys. Nacogdoches Regents is No. 7 in TAPPS 1A boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three East Texas teams ranked No. 1 in TABC preseason rankings Published 12:26 pm Monday, October 13, 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2099,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-freemium","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}