10 schools represented on 2025-26 All-Area boys basketball team
It was a balanced area hoops season, which was exemplified by the 10 schools occupying the 13 spots on the 2025-26 All-Area boys basketball team. Fort Hill, Frankfort and Southern led the way with two selections each, and Allegany, East Hardy, Keyser, Mountain Ridge, Northern, Petersburg and Union had one apiece. Coaches were asked to submit nominations from their teams for consideration, and the All-Area team was decided at a coaches meeting last week.
Fourteen coaches submitted nominations and seven attended the meeting. The first team was highlighted by Allegany’s Chris Manherz, the Area Player of the Year, whose season is detailed in a separate story in Saturday’s Times-News. He’s joined on the first unit by a pair of Frostburg State commits in Jeremy Phillips of Frankfort and Cameron Breighner of Mountain Ridge, along with fellow seniors Jacob Brown (Southern) and Liam Hamilton (Fort Hill).
A pair of Potomac Valley Conference juniors, Union’s Braylon Ward and East Hardy’s Gideon Good, round out the top team. Landing on the second team were seniors Jayden McNally (Northern), Kaleb Kuhn (Petersburg) and Braylon McGreevy (Keyser), juniors Kycin Waites (Frankfort) and Jameson Powell-Morris (Fort Hill), and sophomore Graham Harvey (Southern). There were also 14 honorable mentions named.
That list is at the bottom of this story. First Team Jeremy Phillips, Frankfort, Sr. Phillips will go down as one of the best, if not the best, scorers in Frankfort basketball history.
The 6-foot guard finished his career with a school-record 1,448 points, and he led the area this winter in points (594), 3s (78) and 3-pointers per game (3. 12), and he was third in scoring average (23. 8 points per game).
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