The Los Angeles Daily News boys basketball Top 15 rankings as of December 29, 2025:<\/p>\n
1. Sierra Canyon (10-1): The Trailblazers dominated their first two games of the Les Schwab Invitational in Portland, Ore. Don\u2019t be surprised if they win the whole tournament.<\/p>\n
2. Notre Dame (10-4): Josiah Nance has returned from injury and it makes the Knights that much scarier with NaVorro Bowman Jr. and Zach White.<\/p>\n
3. Harvard-Westlake (15-2): Joe Sterling can\u2019t miss. He had 31 points with seven 3-pointers last week in a victory in the Rancho Mirage tournament.<\/p>\n
4. Crespi (11-4): The Celts are making big strides in the Platinum Division of The Classic at Damien. Crespi is in the semifinals Monday night against Sunnyslope (Arizona), which beat St. John Bosco.<\/p>\n
5. Thousand Oaks (13-0): The Lancers are the equivalent of the college basketball team that has knocked off high-major programs by playing together and is highlighted by players who champion their role. Coach Logan Baltau has things rolling in TO.<\/p>\n
6. Village Christian (11-5): The Crusaders are finishing things in The Classic at Damien and then start Olympic League play with a game against rival Heritage Christian on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n
7. St. Francis (12-2): Sophomore point guard Luke Paulus is the most valuable player coach Todd Wolfson has in his program, despite 7-foot-3 Cherif Millogo dominating games.<\/p>\n
8. Chaminade (15-1): The Eagles have been playing well in Hawaii. Their only loss was to Thousand Oaks.<\/p>\n
9. Knight (13-3): The Hawks have seen the brunt of their schedule. They will now look to dominate the Golden League. But Eastside and Quartz Hill look pretty good, too.<\/p>\n
10. Heritage Christian (8-2): The Warriors are competing in the Battle for Nashville in Tennessee.<\/p>\n
11. Golden Valley (9-5): Donovan Webb has been stellar for the Grizzlies, who are 3-0 in Foothill League play.<\/p>\n
12. Legacy Christian (10-7): The Lions continue to challenge themselves and are making noise this week in The Classic at Damien\u2019s Diamond Division.<\/p>\n
13. Oaks Christian (14-2): The Lions are eyeing a Marmonte League title run in January, but unbeaten Thousand Oaks is in their way.<\/p>\n
14. Westlake (11-5): The Warriors have won four straight and are in the mix for St. Francis\u2019 holiday tournament after beating Saugus and Milken.<\/p>\n
15. Moorpark (14-5): Logan Stotts is emerging as one of the top scorers in the area. He\u2019s pouring in 24.1 points per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Daily News boys basketball Top 15 rankings as of December 29, 2025: 1. Sierra Canyon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,2356,451,184223,10299,4050,13489,3,99,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-376765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-high-school-all-sports","13":"tag-high-school-basketball","14":"tag-high-school-sports","15":"tag-los-angeles-county","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}