Here is the updated Boston Herald Eastern Mass. Top 25 boys basketball rankings. Please note all records are through games played on January 1 and as listed in Arbiter.

1. Attleboro (4-0)

2. Malden Catholic (4-0)

3. Lowell (5-0)

4. Newton North (5-0)

5. Andover (6-0)

6. Mansfield (3-0)

7. Somerset Berkley (3-1)

8. Cambridge Rindge & Latin (3-1)

9. Central Catholic (5-1)

10. St. Mary’s Lynn (6-0)

11. Franklin (5-0)

12. Norwell (4-0)

13. Methuen (3-2)

14. Bourne (3-0)

15. Catholic Memorial (3-1)

16. North Andover (2-3)

17. Holland School of Technology (3-2)

18. Stoneham (5-0)

19. Whitman-Hanson (4-0)

20. North Quincy (4-1)

21. Arlington (4-1)

22. Winchester (4-1)

23. Bridgewater-Raynham (5-2)

24. Durfee (3-1)

25. Braintree (4-1)

ON THE BENCH: Oliver Ames (3-2), Milford (4-1), Charlestown (3-0), Abington (4-1),  Xaverian (2-1), BC High (2-2), Marshfield (3-0), Milton (5-1), New Bedford (4-0), Norwood (4-1)