WV’s 2025 Big School Breakout Players

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Last month we brought you the 2024 installments of West Virginia's best breakout players. These players have already had an impact on their respective programs but could also get on the radar of the rest of the state as well as college coaches. The 2025 class is already poised to be the biggest and best recruiting class in WV basketball history. The state is quickly developing into a D2 &amp; D3 basketball factory with out of state college coaches foaming at the mouth to get here and land some of the many recruits, many on this list could be viable options at both of those levels.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":["not_in_db"],"_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_player_details_selected_featured_image":"","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_selected_featured_image":"field_62cca28ffa4e7","player_evaluations_0_player_details_player_name":"[player_tooltip player_id='2208827' first='Navi' 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