The 2024-25 girls' basketball season hurt for Rutgers Prep, and then-junior Ava LaMonica. There was no division title - at least not outright - they got knocked out of the Somerset County Tournament by her hometown public school of Hillsborough, and lost to eventual Non-Public B group champion Gloucester Catholic in the South B finals. That wasn't want LaMonica was used to her first two years at the Somerset school.

For the first time in the history of the Central Jersey Sports Radio/Bellamy & Son Paving Girls' Basketball Rankings, there's a new team at No. 1: Gill St. Bernard's. The Knights ended Rutgers Prep's reign of 43 straight weeks in the top spot; they were the only team to hold that position since our inaugural season of 2021, the COVID-shortened year.

Two girls' basketball players and one on the boys' side from the Central Jersey Sports Radio coverage area have been nominated to play in the McDonald's All-American Games on April 1, 2025 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The East and West nominees for each gender total 100, and will eventually be pared down to 24 each, with a dozen playing for the East and a dozen playing for the West.