This year’s senior class doesn’t include a single basketball player from the five boroughs ranked in the top 100 of 247Sports.com’s national rankings. The same can be said for next year’s rankings.

There are players from the city, but not one who actually attends high school here. Go 20 miles north of Harlem, however, to the campus of a mid-sized Catholic school in White Plains and you can find the type of prospects for which the local landscape was once known.

R.J. Davis, a slick high-scoring point guard, has signed with North Carolina. A.J. Griffin, a consensus top-10 junior wing in the country, has committed to Duke.

Both attend Archbishop Stepinac. Both have taken the road less traveled, high-level basketball prospects who have passed on prep school basketball factories to attend their local high school. In doing so, the two have built a national powerhouse in Westchester, which rarely has been known for basketball, and turned Stepinac into the favorite to win the Catholic League crown for the second time in three years.

“I feel like I just wanted to try to make it [on my own name], not off someone else’s name,” Griffin said. “Try to put this school on the map.”

This is Pat Massaroni’s fifth season as the Stepinac basketball coach, and the alum of the Catholic school has never seen anything quite like the hype that is attached to this team. They were invited to 18 non-conference tournaments and showcases. Their fall preseason games were sold out in Harlem, and they are ranked No. 15 by USA Today nationally. Stepinac will have a game televised nationally by ESPNU on Feb. 6, against Christ the King of Queens. Tickets for the league opener against Monsignor Scanlon ran out well in advance. Massaroni received 39 media requests for the game, which included Felipe Lopez and Isiah Thomas as part of the capacity crowd. Every seat was taken. Fans had trouble seeing over one another along the baseline.

“It was surreal,” Massaroni said.

It began in earnest a few months ago, with the start of the school year. In two weeks, Mike Krzyzewski, Jay Wright, Roy Williams, Patrick Ewing, Jeff Capel and John Calipari walked through the school’s doors, recruiting Davis and Griffin. Junior forward Malcolm Chimezie almost had to pinch himself when he saw the Duke coach.

“It was like, ‘Wow, Coach K is in our gym,’ ” he thought to himself.

Davis and Griffin are revered on a smaller scale. They are often stopped by classmates to take photos. Griffin marveled at how invested everyone is in the team, from teachers to students. At home games, “you can feel the love all around the gym,” he said.

“They’re celebrities to a lot of kids around here,” Massaroni added.

They have taken different paths to get to this point. Davis is a 5-foot-11 lead guard, a late bloomer who went from a mid-major recruit to high-major before eventually picking North Carolina. He kept getting better, going from being ranked just inside the top-200 last April to now being in the top-50, and was patient with his recruitment.

“Nothing was given, everything was earned, and that’s what coach emphasizes a lot,” the Elmsford native said.

The 6-foot-7 Griffin, from Ossining, has been considered an elite prospect since he got to high school. This summer, he won a gold medal with USA Basketball’s U-16 team in the FIBA Americas. He could’ve had his pick of schools, but had his sights set on Duke and didn’t need to wait until his junior year of high school even started.

Already, NBA teams are aware of him, according to his father Adrian, an assistant with the Raptors. Adrian saw his son’s love for the sport at a young age. When A.J. was 2, he picked up a ball and sank a shot. Everyone in the gym thought it was a fluke, until he hit another one.

“You had to kick A.J. out of the gym,” Adrian said. “He would stay there all night. He cried when it was time to go.”

It’s not just locally that the top prospects leave their local high schools for prep schools known for producing high-major talent. It happens all over the country. It happened early on after Massaroni took over at Stepinac. Current Butler wing Jordan Tucker and LSU guard Aundre Hyatt both left early. This summer, Davis and Griffin were approached by prep schools that have made a habit of landing top city kids. But neither left, citing the family atmosphere at Stepinac and support they receive.

“Why leave if I’ve been so successful?” Davis asked rhetorically.

It was a perfect storm for Stepinac. The school had two high-level kids with strong support systems. Massaroni said he believes that Stepinac offers the advantages of a prep school while still offering a normal high school experience, one reason it has been able to keep both players. It has a yoga instructor, strength coach and athletic trainer. It plays a national schedule and travels first class. The roster includes seven players with Division I offers, even if Davis and Griffin are clearly the best players on the team.

“From my experience, talking to them and observing, they go far beyond the call of duty,” Adrian Griffin said. “They make sure these kids are prepared and have everything they need.

“As an athlete, all you really want to know is am I getting better? You can see through their performance over the years, players are excelling. That’s an attractive selling point for any basketball player.”

The school obviously makes a significant commitment toward athletics. Basketball isn’t the only successful sport. The football program has won two of the last three Catholic league crowns. But having success on the court or field helps the school, too, Stepinac president, Father Thomas Collins said.

Basketball has created a buzz and Collins has heard from a lot of alums about the team. He’s able to spin that into the entire school as a whole, inform former students about everything that is going on, what is needed to improve the overall experience. Collins is hoping to update Stepinac’s curriculum and remodel its classrooms, which means a lot of money needs to be raised.

“Fundraising is all about, ‘Can I get people interested in the school,’ and once I get them interested in something, like the basketball team, then I ask them to help the overall school,” Collins said. “It’s been a tremendous burst of energy. There are good things happening at the school and the way we try to use that energy is to promote all parts of the school.”

For now, basketball is a major selling point, having two future ACC players calling Stepinac home. Griffin hopes it starts a trend. He would like to return to sold-out gyms, see the program prospering years down the line and be able to say he was part of the foundation. Either way, this season promises to be quite an experience.

“To be a part of this in this area, and have other kids look up to you and want to come to the school, that’s what it’s all about,” Griffin said.