Buckner, who was also the Illinois Player of the Year in football, also won a gold medal in the Olympics, led Indiana to an undefeated NCAA championship season in 1976 and won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics. Rank--Name HT Team State; 1. The first class was just 19 students and 1 teacher. 97, Richie Simmonds, 6-2, New York, Iona. Duncanville (Texas) 17-1 2. St. Anthony's was a national phenomenon. He's also still in the NBA. Doug McDermott was named the National College Player of the Year at Creighton in 2014 and was the No. 5 overall by the MInnesota Timberwolves. What's amazing about the team is that few names jump off the page from Camden High that were on the roster that year a true testament to how well head coach Clarence Turner's team was run. Adam Ayalew January 12. Pray for a rainout? That wasn't the case with Niagara Falls High, which went 28-1 in 2004-05 and won the first national title in school history. Stanley, at 6-foot-6 and 315 pounds, was a consensus All-American at Notre Dame in 2015, and the Baltimore Ravens selected him No. Robinson was the No. In our wildest dreams we get to see a game between the 1966-67 Booker High state championship team and the 2019-20 Montverde Academy national championship team to determine the greatest high school team in Florida history. 19, Chris Morris, 6-8, Atlanta, Ga., Auburn. He also reportedly spent time playing professionally under an alias during this time. Rnk: . beat Peoria Manual 68-61 in the state championship game, jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. As a senior at Mount Carmel High School she averaged 33.1 per game. As a senior in 1989-90, Brandon led King to a 32-0 record and the state championship before being named mythical national champions by USA Today. Lower Merion wasn't done winning state championships once Kobe left. Even as a high schooler, Tatum was developing a reputation for lighting up the scorebook. Mayo began playing high school basketball when he was a seventh-grader in Kentucky, where he was an All-State pick as an eighth-grader before transferring to a high school in Ohio for the first three years of high school. Lone Peak's only loss that season came to Florida powerhouse Montverde Academy, but the team's record included six wins over teams that were nationally ranked during the season. What happened next with former Washington High star Junior Bridgeman is one of the greatest (mostly) unknown stories in basketball history. The Final Four also had three teams from the same conference (Big East): Villanova, Georgetown andSt. John's. 1 overall pick Cade Cunningham, the Eagles had just one game decided by single digits on the way to a 25-0 record and mythical national title. Every state has its high school basketball legends. 95.62. They also became the first Louisiana team to win back-to-back state championships in the large school division. Sentinel didn't win a state championship for almost a decade, before going back-to-back in 1972 and 1973. Key players: Jayson Tatum, Tyler Cook, William Gladson. Colby Giacubeno January 10. Football came first with me." He was picked No. One decade later, another great player took center stage and led Marion to a state championship when Zach Randolph helped the school win the 1998 title. Placed under the control of Mastery Charter Schools in 2011, Simon Gratz changed its name to Simon Gratz High School Mastery Charter and was taken off the PDSL list in 2012. "Marcus could make any kind of shot he wanted to." Enter your information to receive emails about offers, promotions from NCAA.com and our partners. The team was led by Parade All-American Howard Porter and future MLB pitcher Hugh Yancy. He is a graduate of Indiana University. That was just part of an 83-game winning streak for Kashmere, which was led by future Texas A&M star Karl Godine and Jarvis Williams. Colby Giacubeno January 11. The Duke recruit buried a whopping 334 threes in his career. After Magic Johnson, Everett didn't win another state championship until 2004, defeating Flint Carman-Ainsworth High in the state championship game. 1" High school boys basketball national ratings, and mythical national champions, have been around for a century. Key players: Jerry Stackhouse, Jeff McGinnis, Mark Blount, Makhtar Ndiaye, Alex Sanders, Curtis Staples, Jermaine Smith, Mike Brittain, Tavares Johnson. These are the newcomersboth freshmen and transfers who have made an impact through the first half of the 2022 FCS football season. It's not recency bias to just believe what your eyes tell you. Then he played nine games before he underwent season-ending back surgery. 22, Stacy Thomas, 6-7, Gainseville, Ga., Tennessee. Hoover played at Villanova and was the No. Averaged 16.4 . Custer vs. Reed Point - February 7, 1980. Keatts, Howard and West were all inducted into the Hargrave Hall of Fame in 2011. Key players: Curtis Walls, Lee Wall, Louis Banks, Sean Turner, Larry Cohen, Reggie Lawrence, Kevin Smith, Dennis Brown, Davis Nieves, Vic Carstarphen. 5 SMU 85, No. 1st team: Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Vincent Carter, Kevin Garnett, Stephon Marbury, Ron Mercer [6] 1996 Boys' team [ edit] 1st team: Mike Bibby, Kobe Bryant, Ronnie Fields, Winfred Walton, Tim Thomas [6] 1997 Boys' team [ edit] 1st team: Chris Burgess, Baron Davis, Mark Karcher, Tracy McGrady, Lamar Odom [6] 1998 Boys' team [ edit] 7 with 1,136 wins to start the 2022-23 season. Older brothers Edgar and Daryl tried to guide Marcus away from his rock-throwing escapades by forcing him to play basketball. High school national championships in boys basketball come with the same momentum as winning a college football national championship. You got to see future NFL All-Pro wide receiver Andre Rison tossing alley-oop passes to future NBA All-Star Glen Rice. Stand Up and Cheer: A Century of Blue Devil Basketball, future NBA players John Thompson and Tom Hoover, went undefeated and won a state championship. Mayo played eight years in the NBA before he was suspended two years for violating the league's "drugs of abuse" policy before the 2018-19 season. The talent faucet didn't just shut off after Dennis Scott and Co. left in the late 1980s. The Gators are 0-6 in Quad 1 games with eight of . 75, Herman Harried, 6-8, Baltimore, Syracuse. Two-time NBA champion Mario Elie and five-time NBA All-Star Chris Mullin played alongside each other for Power Memorial shortly before it closed its doors for good in 1984. Mayo, Patrick Patterson, Jamaal Williams, Michael Taylor. Marion went 84-4 over that period, capped by a 69-56 win over Richmond in the 1987 state championship game, and had nine of its players go on to play college basketball. He was either the No. It was a player who was on the St. John's Catholic Prep roster a few years before the national championship team in 1998 who we want to single out 6-foot-6 forward Nate James graduated in 1996, then went on to play for Duke, where he capped his career as the co-captain on the Blue Devils' 2001 NCAA championship team. Key players: Jerry Lucas, Larry Emrick, Tom Sizer. Dee Brown led the University of Illinois to the 2005 NCAA championship game while Shannon Brown won a pair of NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009 and 2010. Midseason Journal: Glue Guys. After he scored 34 points in the Proviso West Tournament title game, Illinois coach Lou Henson said Liberty "has to be one of the top two or three juniors in the country right now." Rank Player Pos Ht / Wt Rating Team 1 N/A Cameron Boozer Christopher Columbus HS (Miami, FL) PF 6-9 / 215 100 1 1 1 N/A 2 N/A Cooper Flagg Montverde Academy (Montverde, FL) PF 6-8 / 195 99 2 2 2. For the moment, the season of the CSP Limoges is very calm, except for the departure of Darrin Govens. 34, Vernon Maxwell, 6-4, Gainesville, Fla., Florida. But he's shown to be much more than just a fluid shooter while leading the Mustangs to a Class 1A state championship. Boyce is on his second stint as Proviso East's head coach after being re-hired in 2016. 3, Cedric Henderson, 6-9, Marietta, Ga., Georgia. 1 on the school's all-time list. Oak Hill featured a starting lineup with four future NBA players Jerry Stackhouse, Jeff McGinnis, Mark Blount and Makhtar Ddiaye and had another five future Division I players on the roster. The HOOP SCOOP does not knowingly include fifth . Key players: Lonzo Ball, LiAngelo Ball, LaMelo Ball, Onyeka Okongwu, Eli Soctt, Andre Ball, Cameron Shelton. St. Nicholas' only loss came to New Jersey powerhouse St. Anthony's in a tournament in Hawaii. Coached by a former NBA star in Brandon Roy, Nathan Hale High grabbed a state championship and a handful of national championships by going unbeaten behind future NBA star forward Michael Porter Jr. Not everyone was a fan of how Nathan Hale put its team together, though. Key players: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Leonard Bennett, Dwayne Davis. 59, Fred Tisdale, 6-6, Logan Co., Ky., Western Kentucky. He went on to help lead Michigan to back-to-back Final Fours, alongside childhood friend Chris Webber, and played 14 seasons in the NBA. Pointer wasn't even the most famous person in his family. Woodlawn went a staggering 39-0 unheard of scheduling even for the last 20 years and finished No. Earned all-state honors in 1984-85 and was two-time All-CNY Cities League all-star. Jamyn Sondrup : Utah : 3. In all, 11 Overbrook alums have made it to the league. 27, Steve Miller, 6-6, Lexington, Ky., Western Kentucky. That was when superstar junior guard Jalen Rose led them to the first of back-to-back state titles. West Philadelphia High won a mythical national championship in 1977 behind three-time high school All-American Gene "Tinkerbell" Banks, a 6-foot-7 forward who went on to star at Duke and play in the NBA for six seasons. Ellis spent the first seven seasons of his career with the Golden State Warriors and made the playoffs just once, when he was named NBA Most Improved Player in 2007. Key players:Gene Banks, Joe Garrett, Clarence Tillman, Darryl Warwick, Mike Powell, Vincent Ross, Tyrell Biggs, Pee Wee Thomas. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 R&B/Hip-Hop chart. The star player on the 2016 state championship team was all-state guard Tyler Johnson, who became a two-time All-Big Ten wide receiver at the University of Minnesota and won a Super Bowl as a rookie with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2021. One of the most highly recruited high school basketball players of all time, Ewing was coached by future Division I head coach Mike Jarvis and went 94-5 in four seasons. She ranks as Pennsylvania's all time scoring leader with 3,823 points. 6 overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft. Bosh was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021. Detroit Southwestern High lost in the state championship game seven of the previous eight seasons before 1990. Dunbar beat Camden at Camden by 29. There were two future NBA players on McClymonds High's unbeaten 1959-60 team Paul Silas and Joe Ellis. Robertson led the nation in scoring three times and was a three-time National Player of the Year at the University of Cincinnati before he became a 12-time NBA All-Star, nine-time All-NBA selection and was named to the NBA's 35th, 50th and 75th Anniversary Team. He would stand during the anthem but looked downward and recited Islamic prayer. Proviso East's legendary early 1990s teams weren't the last time multiple NBA players would be on the roster, either. Dantley, 6-foot-6, and Carr, 6-7, absolutely terrorized opponents, and Wooten was a master at getting the most out of them. The two Parade All-Americans coached by Lafayette Norwood saw little in the way of competition throughout the year. You can make an argument for Cage being the greatest high school basketball player in Arkansas history. Quincy was led by a pair of future Big Ten standouts, 6-foot-10 center Michael Payne (Iowa) and 6-foot-3 guard Bruce Douglas (Illinois), who played in the NBA for one season. SCHOOL (W-L); Comment (rk. Five years before Tatum was selected, Chaminade's Bradley Beal was selected No. He has added 19 wins this year to move within 30 victories of Hurley at 1,155. 1 until its loss to King in Tuesday's city title game. Oh, did we mention 10-year NBA veteran and first-round draft pick Jeff Grayer was also on the roster? Crudup averaged 28.9 points and 13.0 rebounds as a senior, went on to star for the University of Missouri and was a second-round draft pick by the Detroit Pistons in 1994. And the result is there: the club is in 7th place in the ranking with a record of 9 wins and 8 losses. St. Nicholas went from the Bronx to the top of the nation in high school basketball thanks to 6-foot-7 star forward and future NBA player Malik Sealy, who averaged 21.4 points and 10.4 rebounds while shooting 65.4 percent from the field. . "He is a man playing against boys," said Cincinnati assistant coach Jim Dudley, commenting on Robinson's 44-inch vertical leap. 1 and No. His father was a bodyguard for social activist Malcolm X, also known as Malik Shabazz, and named his son after him. 65, Eugene Lewis, 6-2, Abington, Pa., Pittsburgh. MaxPreps has compiled a list of the high school boys basketball coaches with the most all-time wins. What were teams supposed to do when they faced off against Hargrave, led by current North Carolina State head coach Kevin Keatts and future NBA stars Josh Howard and David West? Markus Black, the point guard on the 2006 state championship team, became Booker's head coach in 2016 and coached there until 2021, when he was hired to join Eric Musselman's staff at the University of Arkansas. 1985 State High School Basketball All Tournament Team.pdf: 3/16/2015 8:40 pm: Print. Tragically, Sealy died in a car accident in 2000, at 30 years old. Key players: Larry Hollyfield, Mike Hopwood, Biff Burrell, Reynaldo Brown, Keith Lee, Louie Nelson. The best basketball players in 2026 are as follows: Click the players name to watch some footage. 98, Herbert Brooks, 6-2, Mullens, W. Va., West Virginia. 8 seeded Wildcats remain the lowest seed to win the title. Wallace, who went on to star at UNC and play 16 seasons in the NBA, was the big story and was featured in Sports Illustrated that year. +/-1: Park . No. Key players: Michael Payne, Bruce Douglas. Harris spent the next 11 seasons playing basketball professionally all over the world just not in the NBA. East Chicago Washington High averaged 95 points per game during the 1970-71 season, led by a bevy of future pro and college talent. It would have been even bet To top it off, Edwards helped the United States win five Olympic medals (four gold and one bronze). 2. Wilt Chamberlain wasn't the only NBA player to come out of Overbrook High. Liberty's first encounters with basketball left him bored. 4, Kevin Walls, 6-3, Camden, N.J., Louisville. Key players: Danny Ainge, Rodger Bates, Mike O'Neill, Greg Niko, Steve Moulton, Greg Jacobson. Rankings from AP poll. "When I first saw him walk on the court, I knew he could be awesome," said Robinson. The following double-digit seeds won games: Here are the 1985 NCAA tournament leaders (number of games in parentheses): Andy Wittry has written for Stadium, SI.com, Sporting News, the Indianapolis Star, Louisville Courier-Journal and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time from New York High Schools .