Michael O’Brien’s Super 25 basketball rankings

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Simeon’s Marquise Brown (2) tips in a rebound for an easy bucket against Bloom in the Pontiac Holiday Tournament, December 30, 2016. Allen Cunningham / Chicago Sun-Times

With record and last week’s ranking

1. Simeon (11-0) 2

Pontiac champions

2. Evanston (13-2) 4

Second at Beach Ball

3. Kenwood (10-3) 7

Broncos are well-traveled

4. Young (9-3) 8

Proviso West champions

5. Bolingbrook (10-0) 6

Hinsdale Central champs

6. Morgan Park (9-2) 3

Second at Proviso West

7. Fremd (13-0) 15

Champs at Wheeling

8. Uplift (11-3) 10

Lost to Morgan Park

9. Orr (7-1) 11

Champions in Detroit

10. Homewood-Flossmoor (10-2) 14

Second at Hinsdale Central

11. Bloom (9-3) 17

Terrific at Pontiac

12. Joliet West (13-1) 5

Lost to Bloom

13. Conant (13-2) 24

Champs at York

14. Benet (11-3) 25

Second at Pontiac

15. Curie (11-2) 1

Upset by Danville

16. Marist (16-0) 18

Champions at Centralia

17. Fenwick (10-3) 12

Lost to Young

18. Thornton (9-3) 16

Won Big Dipper

19. Joliet Central (12-1) NR

Won title in Bloomington

20. Jacobs (12-0) 19

Cruised at Jacobs

21. Farragut (6-2) 20

Won title in Normandy

22. Wheaton-Warrenville South (13-1) NR

Second at Bloomington

23. North Lawndale (11-3) 9

Lost to WW South

24. Geneva (13-0) 21

Champs at DeKalb

25. Notre Dame (11-3) NR

Second at Wheeling

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