GAINESVILLE - With less than a month to go in the 2025-2026 high school basketball season, the top-ranked Gainesville boys basketball team is still on the rise.

When Sandy's Spiel published their preseason rankings in late October, Red Elephant boys basketball debuted at No. 5 in Class 5A.

In late November, after wins on back-to-back nights over then No. 6 Dutchtown (69-67) and then No. 3 Woodward Academy (52-51), Big Red rose to No. 1 in those same rankings, a position that's gone unrelinquished since by the still-unbeaten Gainesville hoops team, which sits at 18-0, 5-0 in Region 7-5A play.

Fast forward to January and the consistent winning, and big-game wins, that lifted the Red Elephants to the top of Class 5A have garnered both national attention and the same results.

On January 6 Gainesville debuted at No. 25 in MaxPreps High School Basketball Top 25. In a fashion familiar due to early-season happenings and a manner befitting the consistent nature of this year's team, a week later the Red Elephants came in at No. 20 in that same poll after wins over Class 5A's then-fifth-ranked Milton (68-60) and seventh-ranked Johns Creek (64-62).

Next up for Gainesville, a home region game against Seckinger Friday at the Davis-Hill Gym: girls start at 6, boys tip at 7:30 p.m.

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