Wilt Chamberlain wasn't the only NBA player to come out of Overbrook High. They also became the first Louisiana team to win back-to-back state championships in the large school division. Tremaine Fowlkes, Crenshaw--Selected City 4-A Player of the Year, Fowlkes was the leading scorer (25.5 points) and rebounder (15.8) for the Cougars. The 1977 state champions were inducted into the Lansing Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. Six players off the Compton High national championship teams led by head coach Bill Armstrong went on to play Division I basketball. But UNLV forward Anthony Bennett lasted just four seasons in the NBA and is widely considered one of the biggest draft busts in pro sports history. 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. 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. USA Today High School Basketball Player of the Year. Key players: Maurice Robertson, Eugene Edgerson. Anacostia But it didnt matter with the running game so dominant against what had been a formidable Little Hawk defense. With five players ranked in the 2023 ESPN 100 and four more ranked in the 2024 . Frank McQueen, Parkdale, 23.9 Key players: Dee Davis, Jordan Hulls, Matt Carlino, Erik Fromm. The Little Hawks finished with a losing record in seven out of eight seasons from 1975 to 1982. Feb 27, 2023 Updated Feb 28, 2023. Winners of the City Times Player and Coach of the Year awards will be announced at the breakfast. Although none of the players off the 2002-03 Woodlawn High squad made it to the NBA, one of them did have a lengthy career in the pros. Who are the best high school boys basketball players from the class of 2021? In Philadelphia-area prep hoops history, you can count him alongside players like Wilt Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant as the all-time greats. He was selected to three preseason all-tournament teams, first-team Southern Section Division I and two postseason national all-star games. HONORABLE MENTION High school assists were not a stat they were recording yet. Then he played nine games before he underwent season-ending back surgery. Center Committed to Duke. The y-axis in this graph represents the percentage weight of the score that gets applied to an overall team ranking. With Ewing on its roster, Cambridge could beat just about anybody. Guard Emery and Haws both went on to play for BYU, where Haws was a two-time All-WCC selection. Malik Sealy had one of the more amazing backstories of anyone in basketball. Oak Hill Academy didn't stop winning national titles after that first one in 1993. The debate over who is the greatest high school basketball player in Alaska history boils down to three players East's Trajan Langdon, Bartlett's Mario Chalmers and Juneau-Douglas High's Carlos Boozer. 6-5 / 210. 6-4 state championship in 1992. Jayson Tatum wasn't the first player out of Chaminade Prep to go No. While Quincy High has not won a state basketball championship since 1981, the school still holds Illinois records for most appearances at the state tournament (32) and most games played in the state tournament (89). He was just a special, special football player, and that is what took that team over the top. 1 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2007 NBA draft and subsequently became one of the biggest busts in professional sports history. If I remember correctly, Randy Livingston was Parade All-America co-POY with Jason Kidd in 1992 and again with Rasheed Wallace in 1993. They had to have all the entertainment when everybody was leaving the stadium because the game was over, Raffensperger said. 10 overall pick in the 1990 NBA draft and played five seasons in the NBA. Johnson was named the City 4-A and The Times Central City Player of the Year last year. Any list of greatest high school basketball coaches needs to include Stu Vetter, who led two different schools to national titles Flint Hill Academy in 1987 and St. John's Catholic Prep in 1988. October 30, 2013 5:00 am ET. 1994-95 All-Met Boys Basketball Team Thursday, March 30, 1995. He led the Yellowjackets to three Michigan State championships (MHSAA), finishing his senior campaign as . 6-3 One year later, head coach Kevin Boyle left TPS to become the new coach at Montverde Academy. Thompson went on to star at Providence. Point guard Rumeal Robinson was a star for Rindge in 1986, leading his school to the state title before heading to the University of Michigan, where he teamed up with Glen Rice to win the 1989 NCAA championship. 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. The Patrick School finished No. Lucas, at 6-foot-8, was unlike any player anyone had ever seen. beat Peoria Manual 68-61 in the state championship game, jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. 1 overall in the 2003 NBA draft, SVSM has won five more state titles, in 20009, 2011, 2017, 2018 and 2021. In 2007, a study at John Hopkins University looking at graduation rates around the U.S. classified Kashmere as a "dropout factory." We came up with the 10 best high school basketball teams of all time. Beal was the Gatorade National Player of the Year in 2011 and played one season at the University of Florida. They ended the year on a 58-game winning streak and defeated state champions from three different states, including national No. We have great family memories of that, pictures and everything. He was a Ukrainian Super League All-Star in 2009, NBA D-League All-Star in 2013 and NBL All-Star for the New Zealand Breakers in 2013. Few shooting guards in area have better range than Green, who helped Key players: Howard Porter, Hugh Yancy, Arthur Johnson. Lanier finished ranked No. 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. Way before Gene Banks lit up the scoreboard and led West Philadelphia High to a mythical national championship in 1977, another star player was doing big things for West Philly. Record: 23-3. . Kashmere High went 46-0 in 1974-75 in an era where states weren't quite as stringent on scheduling limits. Mike Powell rebounds, 3 blocked shots, 2 steals and 2 assists. Ellis teamed with future Wichita State guard Evan Wessel and future West Virginia running back Dreamius Smith to win four consecutive state championships from 2009 to 2012 under the leadership of head coach Joe Auer. 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. He was picked No. PRO PHOTOGRAPHY. 7 overall recruit in the country. Niagara Falls had a future NBA first-round draft pick in sophomore guard Johnny Flynn, who averaged 15.2 points, 5.6 assists and 3.4 rebounds. Flint Hill only won one more state championship, in 1995, and made it to the state semifinals in 2005. His 1992-93 team had a gaggle of future Division I talent in forward and Class 6A Player of the Year B.J. Led by senior guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (then known as Chris Jackson), Gulfport went 40-3 and won its second consecutive state championship in 1988, taking down a Murrah High team with two future NBA first-round draft picks, James Robinson and Lindsey Hunter, in the state championship game. They have claimed two state titles in 1993 and 2018. . Career 109-51. Tatum went on to star for Duke, where he played one season before he was the No. 1. Senior Just a few years after King College Prep's national championship in 1990, King won another state championship in 1993 behind a pair of 7-footers 7-foot-2 Thomas Hamilton and 7-foot Rashard Griffith. Related organizations They had fast defensive players and a lot of college football players that went on to play college football." Three of City's games in 1993 ended by the 50-point mercy rule, including one at . Where do the nation basketball recruits rank? 5 overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft. Key players: Harrison Barnes, Doug McDermott. 5 overall recruit Dariq Whitehead, a 6-foot-6 small forward signed to play for Duke. Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins led Washington High to back-to-back Class 3A state championships in his final two years of high school, including a 29-0 season as a senior. College highlights: None. Langdon did it 1994 with a future NFL defensive end in the frontcourt with 6-foot-6 center Mao Tosi a devastating combo, regardless of what state you reside in. How popular were the Marion High teams in this stretch? Central High School (CHS) is a suburban public school located in Phenix City, . Senior The crew not only finished the job on time in about six weeks, but they also had fun doing it thanks largely to Dwights energy. Key players: RoShon Jacobs, Kentrell Gransberry, Darnell Lazare. Every High School Basketball team in the nation is ranked. The world was introduced to LeBron James in 2001-02 via a Sports Illustrated cover featuring the St. Vincent-St. Mary High star, and ESPN made the deft decision to start broadcasting his games on national television. PLAYER OF THE YEAR Louis Bullock Guard Laurel Baptist Senior 6-3 Repeat All-Met. Key players: LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Sian Cotton, Romeo Travis. The Ravens rewarded him with a five-year, $98.7 million contract with $64 million guaranteed. Kashmere brought home more than just a Class 4A state title in 1975. Everett did it in 2004 with another future Michigan State star and future NBA draft pick, 6-foot-11 center Goran Suton, who immigrated to the United States from Serbia with his family right before he entered high school. FIBA U17 World Cup in Spain 202022 ( Gold ): 7 games: 7.0ppg, 7.0rpg, 1.1spg, 1.3bpg. Inhis final season, he averaged 25.2 points, 9.1 assists, 8.8 rebounds and 3.4 steals and was named Illinois Mr. Basketball and a McDonald's All-American. Southwest Macon High coach Duck Richardson was so hard on his players they gave him a truly deplorable nickname we won't repeat here feel free to look it up if you're so inclined but the results are impossible to argue. At the heart of Bloomington South's program was its ever-present head coach, J.R. Holmes. Greg Jones, Cardozo, 6-1, Sr. 6-8 Dayron Harris, Washington--Physically the strongest player in the area, the 6-4 Harris was also recruited to play football by Division I schools even though he never played the sport in high school. Compton High won back-to-back CIF state championships and back-to-back national championships in 1968 and 1969 as part of a 66-game winning streak over the final two seasons. 11 2 4. Ronnell Felton, Hayfield, 6-2, Jr. What happened next with former Washington High star Junior Bridgeman is one of the greatest (mostly) unknown stories in basketball history. He was just one of three future NBA players on the roster alongside junior Voshon Lenard and senior Howard Eisley. The first class was just 19 students and 1 teacher. At 6-foot-8, he was a 3-point shooter and one of the best long-distance shooters of the 1990s, when he played 11 seasons in the NBA. The best of the bunch was Larry Hollyfield, a 6-foot-5 guard/forward who won eight consecutive championships during his career four at Compton High, one California juco title in an unbeaten season at Compton Junior College, then three consecutive national championships at UCLA. If they didnt win the state title, then something went wrong.. Michigan has had a lot of great teams several made this list but a young Rice was truly the show here. 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. Dwight rushed for 2,113 yards and scored 43 touchdowns as a senior in 1993 despite often playing in only half of each game because the scores were so lopsided. Key players: Paul Silas, Joe Ellis, Aaron Pointer. O.J. Averaged 23.6 Boyce is on his second stint as Proviso East's head coach after being re-hired in 2016. Latimore and Chino Hills responded by winning back-to-back state championships in 2018 and 2019. UCLA coach John Wooden once called Wooten "the finest coach on any level high school, college, or pro. Detroit Southwestern High lost in the state championship game seven of the previous eight seasons before 1990. A wiry versatile player with endless length, Christie is a smooth . Phill Hawkins, The Heights, 22.5 By 1946, enrollment at Parker grew to 3,761 students, making it the largest exclusively African-American high school in the world. Lamon White, Colonial Beach, 23.4 Bosh was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021. Ainge also had success as an NBA executive, putting together the team that won an NBA championship for the Boston Celtics in 2008, when he was named NBA Executive of the Year. East Anchorage wasn't done winning state championships when Trajan Langdon walked out the door. This year's senior class will be off to their . Imagine trying to prepare your team to face West Memphis High during the 1979-80 season. They were similar, but Livingston had more awards. Some of those teams were even better than that. 22.5 points, 12 rebounds and 5 assists. But not the title. Daniel Deng, Wash. Int, 22.9 Geez, as a kid its pretty cool that not only are you building a new house, but any high school player to me and my brother were all-stars. Blackmon is considered a slashing-type player, preferring to drive to the basket. He played one season at USC before he was the No. Wichita South High is the second team from Wichita, Kansas, to make the list and was coached by legendary high school coach Steve Eck, who won six Class 6A state championships with the Titans from 1986 to 1996. With just one rule. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar should always be in the discussion when it comes to the greatest basketball players of all time. McDonald's All-American roster doesn't have a Randy Livingston. Was Douglas, who starred at Syracuse and played 13 seasons in the NBA, the greatest player to ever come out of Spingarn? Dominguez repeated as state champions in 2001, then won another state title in 2004 the last state championship in school history. Not just for the players, but for the coaches as well.. Now known as Blazer High, it is still the only high school from Kentucky to win a national championship in boys basketball, where it capped off the year with a 15-10 win over Canton (Illinois) High at the National Interscholastic Tournament in Chicago. Senior The Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team was an annual selection by Parade that nationally honored the top high school boys' basketball players in the United States. Kingswood-Oxford Wyverns High School: 6'6'' 175: 87: Rutgers Signed. 2005-2023 CBS INTERACTIVE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. High Point Thompson, who was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame and the College Basketball Hall of Fame, died in August 2020 at 78 years old. Compton High hasn't played in a CIF State Championship Game since 1969 but has played for the Southern California Championship and lost three times in 1998, 2010 and 2014. The kids have battled throughout, so we feel good heading into Wednesday night, Sabers said. Abdul-Rauf was one of the most highly recruited players in the country coming out of high school and played two seasons for LSU, where he was an All-American both years, then was the No. He would do anything to get back out on the field. It was Robinson who hit the game-winning free throws against Seton Hall in overtime of the championship game. Daily scores for basketball, ice hockey, wrestling, swimming, gymnastics and indoor track. Inglewood has not played for a state championship since its undefeated team won it all in 1980. If he had to, he would have brought the water bottles out. Ronald Rhodes, Calvert; DeRon Robinson, W.T. Being in the stands for a Flint Northwestern High basketball game in the mid-1980s must have been a treat. 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? Senior 1 and No. Woodlawn star RoShon Jacobs went on to become an All-Southland pick in both football and basketball for Louisiana-Monroe. 1 overall in the 2013 NBA draft. Ben Johnson For the Tulsa World. Copyright @2023 TigerDroppings.com. 23. They had fast defensive players and a lot of college football players that went on to play college football.. A state title proved to be elusive, though, until Dwights senior year. Oh, did we mention 10-year NBA veteran and first-round draft pick Jeff Grayer was also on the roster? He really set a spark.. While the greatest player in Inglewood High history is undoubtedly Basketball Hall of Famer Paul Pierce, the greatest team tag belongs to the 1979-80 squad. Lewis played six seasons in the ABA and was an ABA All-Star in 1971, but his career was cut short by an Achilles tendon injury. NIL; NIL Deal Tracker; NIL Deals; NIL News Feed; NIL U; . The undefeated Arkansas state championship team reached as high as No. James was hired as the head coach at Austin Peay in April 2021. During his NBA career, Bridgeman began buying up fast-food restaurants and started a catering/events service an empire that eventually made him one of the richest men in America, with an estimated $600 million fortune. Counsel; Tom Bubonovich, Grace Brethren; Joseph Childress, Canterbury; 10 overall pick in 2018. St. Albans In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating. advanced placement courses, and honors courses. The truly bananas fact about Oak Hill Academy's 1992-93 season is that six of the 36 wins were against college teams on the way to winning the school's first mythical high school national championship. 3 overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft. And it was clearly on.. Seahawks to second straight region title. Dominguez made it to the championship game again in 2008 but lost to McClymonds High. Alongside Tom Gola, Wilt Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant, Banks is often thought of as one of the greatest Philly-area high school players of all time. Key players: Glen Rice, Andre Rison, Jeff Grayer. 11 overall pick in 2014. Quincy was never more dominant than when they hit the state tournament, winning four games by an average of almost 30 points. It's worth noting the school didn't open its doors until 1997. Another City 4-A selection, Patterson guided Fremont to the City 4-A semifinals and a surprise wild-card berth in the state playoffs. St. Albans That year, Chamberlain scored over 70 points twice and 90 points once. Ricky Blackmon, Dorsey--Considered a late bloomer by recruiters, Blackmon was the leading scorer (22.2 points), and second-leading rebounder (6.2) for the Dons, who reached the City Section 4-A finals for the second consecutive year. The 2019-20 Minnehaha Academy team didn't need a state tournament to tell us what we already knew they just don't make high school basketball teams like this very often. And I dont know how you could ever have one team that had that many all-state players. Dantley, 6-foot-6, and Carr, 6-7, absolutely terrorized opponents, and Wooten was a master at getting the most out of them. The NJSIAA hired a former cop to secretly videotape the team working out. 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. Ranking the top prospects in the Class of 2022. And our eyes tell us that the 2019-20 Montverde Academy team is one of the best collections of high school talent we've ever seen. He had only one losing season in his final 18 years as head coach, retiring after the 2000 campaign. But this team in 93 was just incredible when you figure they had eight all-state players. With no scheduling limitations, the 1963-64 Birmingham Parker High team played a whopping 44 games and was named National Black High School champions in an era before integrated schools had made their way to all parts of the United States. 12. Longtime rival Dunbar High. 1 pick in the NBA draft after his junior season for sure and maybe his sophomore season and was a three-time Parade All-American and two-time National Player of the Year. Because of the Krider-Verbum Dei-Kashmere dispute, we always look at the 1975-76 season as the beginning of modern weekly national . 43: Roosevelt; Brad Fowler, Severn; Michael Gray, Colonial Beach; Darren There were two future NBA players on McClymonds High's unbeaten 1959-60 team Paul Silas and Joe Ellis. Kenny Avent, High Point, 22.0 Tommie Davis, Crenshaw--The most controversial story this season involved Davis transfer from Fremont to Crenshaw. Robertson teamed with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to the 1971 NBA championship. Three-time all-DCIAA selection. It was a learning experience for those guys. Simeon Career Academy didn't have to wait long for another generational talent to walk its halls. The Willowridge High squad in 2000-01 was led by a pair of McDonald's All-Americans who went on to star in college and play in the NBA with Daniel Ewing and T.J. Ford. Middle brother LiAngelo Ball, who actually led the team in scoring, was also key as Chino Hills took down ranked team after ranked team, including wins over Montverde Academy (Florida), Jefferson (New York), Bishop Gorman (Nevada) and Bishop MOntgomery (California).