SCNext Top 25: Ranking the best high school girls' basketball teams in the 2022-23 season

With the start of the girls’ high school basketball schedule in the Northeast, the entire country’s slate is now officially underway for the 2022-23 season.

The She Got Game series and Art Turner Memorial provided premier early-season matchups, leading into one of the biggest tournaments of the year: the Nike Tournament of Champions (Dec. 19-22) in Phoenix. Many top-25 schools will be playing each other over the next two weeks.

Sidwell Friends (D.C.) remains No. 1 after strong victories over both No. 7 South Grand Prairie (Texas) and No. 16 Duncanville (Texas) last week. Sierra Canyon (Calif.) remains right on Sidwell’s heels at No. 2 after a strong victory over No. 18 Lone Peak (Utah) at HoopFest-Utah last week.

We rank the best teams in the country for the 2022-23 season. Below is our ESPN High School Girls’ Basketball Top 25 for the week of Dec. 19:

1. Sidwell Friends (D.C.) 4-0
2. Sierra Canyon (Calif.) 6-0
3. Etiwanda (Calif.) 10-0
4. La Jolla Country Day (Calif.) 10-0
5. Montverde Academy (Fla.) 10-0
6. Long Island Lutheran (N.Y.) 5-0
7. South Grand Prairie (Texas) 11-4
8. Hopkins HS (Minn.) 6-0
9. South Bend Washington (Ind.) 14-0
10. St. John Vianney (N.J.) 2-0
11. Conway (Ark.) 9-1
12. St. John’s College HS (D.C.) 6-1
13. Archbishop Mitty (Calif.) 6-1
14. Sacred Heart (Ky.) 7-0
15. Duncanville (Texas) 10-4
16. DeSoto HS (Texas) 10-3
17. Bishop McNamara (Md.) 2-3
18. Lone Peak (Utah) 5-1
19. Purcell Marian (Ohio) 7-1
20. Clackamas (Ore.) 2-0
21. Waterloo West (Iowa) 8-0
22. Incarnate Word Academy (Mo.) 5-0
23. Hazel Green (Ala.) 11-0
24. Hoover (Ala.) 17-0
25. Centennial (Nev.) 1-1