Ranking the best high school girls' basketball teams in the 2022-23 season

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La Jolla Country Day's Jada Williams is 1 of 3 top-25 recruits to perpetrate to Arizona. Brittany Graham

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The 2022-23 girls' precocious schoolhouse hoops play has tipped disconnected successful immoderate states, and we are a fewer weeks distant from the play being successful afloat plaything crossed the country.

As we look guardant to nationalist events similar the She Got Game Classic, Nike Tournament of Champions, Geico Nationals and the State Champions Invitational, we find immoderate acquainted teams astatine the apical of the SCNext Top 25 rankings.

Sidwell Friends School (Washington, D.C.), which won past year's inaugural SCI, returns Jadyn Donovan, a Duke perpetrate who is the third-ranked enlistee successful the 2023 espnW 100, arsenic good arsenic Kendall Dudley and Leah Harmon, top-20 prospects successful the 2024 espnW 60.

Three California schools are besides adjacent the top, boasting rosters of loaded talent. Sierra Canyon is led by Judea Watkins (No. 1, 2023) and Mackenly Randolph (No. 19, 2024). Etiwanda returns Kennedy Smith (No. 16, 2024) astatine guardant and Aliyahna Morris (No. 18, 2025) astatine constituent guard. La Jolla Country Day starts Arizona signees Breya Cunningham (No. 14, 2023) and Jada Williams (No. 21, 2023), arsenic good arsenic Tajianna Avant-Roberts (No. 24, 2024).

Montverde Academy (Florida) rounds retired the apical five, bringing successful South Carolina signee Sahnya Jah (No. 40, 2023) to articulation returning seniors similar Letycia Vasconcelos (No. 36, 2023) and Mjracle Sheppard (No. 86, 2023).

We fertile the champion teams successful the state for the 2022-23 season. Below is our preseason ESPN High School Girls' Basketball Top 25:

1. Sidwell Friends (D.C.)
2. Sierra Canyon (Calif.)
3. Etiwanda (Calif.)
4. La Jolla Country Day (Calif.)
5. Montverde Academy (Fla.)
6. Centennial (Nev.)
7. The Webb School (Tenn.)
8. South Grand Prairie (Texas)
9. Bishop McNamara (Md.)
10. IMG Academy (Fla.)
11. Hopkins (Minn.)
12. Archbishop Mitty (Calif.)
13. Long Island Lutheran (N.Y.)
14. St. John's College High School (D.C.)
15. South Bend Washington (Ind.)
16. St. John Vianney (N.J.)
17. DeSoto (Texas)
18. Shabach Christian Academy (Md.)
19. Conway (Ark.)
20. Purcell Marian (Ohio)
21. St. Paul VI (Va.)
22. Clackamas (Ore.)
23. Waterloo West (Iowa)
24. Incarnate Word (Neb.)
25. Hazel Green (Ala.)