Coronado basketball opens title defense ranked No. 57 nationally

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Coronado High School’s basketball team will begin its state title defense later this month ranked No. 57 in the nation in MaxPreps’ preseason poll, which was released Friday.

Coronado basketball opens title defense ranked No. 57 nationally

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Coronado High School hoops players, from left, Munir Greig, Kyle Amadi and Devaughn Dorrough airs during the Las Vegas Sun High School Basketball Media Day astatine Red Rock Resort Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. Photo by: Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun

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Coronado High School’s hoops squad volition statesman its authorities rubric defence aboriginal this period ranked the 57th-ranked squad successful the federation successful MaxPreps’ preseason poll, which was released Friday.

The Cougars instrumentality 2 of the state’s apical players: elder Munir Greig, the reigning authorities subordinate of the year, and inferior guardant DeVaughn Dorrough, who holds assistance offers from Stanford, USC and Washington.

Coronado besides added elder Kyle Amadi, a three-star defender who transferred from Texas.

The school, which opened successful 2001, won its archetypal authorities title past play and enters this twelvemonth arsenic the favourite to repeat. Its toughest situation volition apt travel from perennial powerfulness Bishop Gorman, which is unranked successful the preseason poll.

The Cougars’ docket includes 7 out-of-state events, giving them a accidental to marque a nationalist splash astatine stops similar the So Cal Thanksgiving Showcase, the SEL3CT 305 — a two-day lawsuit successful Miami — and the John Wall Invitational successful Raleigh, N.C.

“We are focused connected getting these kids to assemblage and playing arsenic hard arsenic we can,” Coronado manager Jeff Kaufman said during the Sun’s High School Basketball Media Day. “(We are) focusing connected evidently winning different authorities championship, but (also) representing Nevada (with) the docket we’ll play.”

Kaufman said this season’s slate is the astir ambitious his squad has played successful rather a while. For more, perceive to the Sun’s media time conversation:

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