Over the last few decades, Dunbar High School has become almost as well-known for putting out big-time football players as it once was for its elite basketball talent. 4 in the final USA Today Top 25 poll. Key players: Harrison Barnes, Doug McDermott. We went . Hamilton became a basketball oddity. Woe unto the unfortunate post players who had to try and guard a young Chris Bosh for Lincoln High during the 2001-02 season, because the future Basketball Hall of Famer was an absolute nightmare to try and contain. Eck spent 25 years coaching mostly on the junior-college level, most notably winning an NJCAA Division I National Championship at Hutchinson Community College in 2017. Center Kentrell Gransberry became an All-Big East pick at the University of South Florida. USbasket Top 50 U.S. High School Teams Ranking Last Updated: 1/19/2023 The RANKING is carefully calculated based on teams' games and league/conference strength. One year later, head coach Kevin Boyle left TPS to become the new coach at Montverde Academy. Larry Bird played professionally in the National Basketball Association from 1979 to 1992. 17. Mayo had 41 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists in the 2007 Class AAA state championship game a 103-61 win over South Charleston. The 1977 state champions were inducted into the Lansing Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. Guiding them from the sideline was head coach Ronnie Courtney, who was named 2001 USA Today Coach of the Year and won back-to-back state titles with the duo in 2000 and 2001. He's currently the general manager for the New Orleans Pelicans. Oh, did we mention 10-year NBA veteran and first-round draft pick Jeff Grayer was also on the roster? Key players: Da'Quan Cook, Corey Fisher, Brad Haugabrook, Jeff Robinson. You're not reading that wrong. 1 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2007 NBA draft and subsequently became one of the biggest busts in professional sports history. And they went 4-20. He also reportedly spent time playing professionally under an alias during this time. 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. 3 overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft. How'd the Purple Knights do it? 1 or No. Then he played nine games before he underwent season-ending back surgery. Located in the Carver Langston neighborhood in Washington, D.C., Spingarn High opened its doors in 1952 and quickly established a reputation as one of the top high schools in D.C. Spingarn wouldn't win another city title after its 1985 championship until 2000. Key players: Malik Sealy, Brian Reese, Adrian Autry. East Anchorage wasn't done winning state championships when Trajan Langdon walked out the door. Future NBA superstar and Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was the first freshman to start on the varsity for Lower Merion High. Parker was an All-American in his one season at Duke and the No. 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. 2 overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft after spending one season at Gonzaga. It's routinely viewed as one of the worst high schools in the country when it comes to academics. St. Vincent-St. Mary didn't stop winning state championships after LeBron James embarked on one of the greatest NBA careers of all time. Edgerson, a 6-foot-6, 235-pound forward, won a national championship at the University of Arizona and played on two Final Four teams with the Wildcats under the late Lute Olson. 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. 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. Any conversation about the greatest teams and greatest players in Chicago high school basketball history should include King College Prep and 6-foot-4 Jamie Brandon, a three-time All-State pick who finished his career as the No. That's a truly remarkable feat for coach Greg Wise's squad. MORE: Carl Hayden's greatest high school basketball players. Even as a high schooler, Tatum was developing a reputation for lighting up the scorebook. 3 in the nation in 2009 and won its third state championship in four years before the NJSIAA banned TPS from the 2010 tournament for violating workout guidelines in the offseason. In an interesting twist, James' oldest son, Bronny, scored the game-winning basket and finished with 15 points for Sierra Canyon (California) High in a win over SVSM in December 2019. Key players: Cade Cunningham, Scottie Barnes, Moses Moody, Caleb Houstan, Day'Ron Sharpe. 2 Philadelphia Neumann-Goretti High. In fact, a Flint Hill grad turned in arguably the greatest performance in ACC Tournament history. Joseph Young was the star player on Yates' national championship team in 2010, when he averaged 27.5 points, 4.1 rebounds, 4.4 steals and 3.8 assists. It was Robinson who hit the game-winning free throws against Seton Hall in overtime of the championship game. Langdon was a McDonald's All-American, a three-time All-American at Duke and played three seasons in the NBA. Capping off the year at the top of the national polls made Lincoln the first Texas team in 27 years to win a mythical national championship, following Kashmere High and grabbing the national title from a Carmelo Anthony-led Oak Hill Academy squad after they suffered an upset loss to Mater Dei (California). In Philadelphia-area prep hoops history, you can count him alongside players like Wilt Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant as the all-time greats. They ended the year on a 58-game winning streak and defeated state champions from three different states, including national No. Courtney won another state title at George Bush High School in 2010. Ronnie Courtney's career path is something to behold. 3 in the USA Today Top 25. 33 Lower Merion jersey now hangs above a door in the gym. He eventually played two seasons in the NBA three years apart, for the Boston Celtics in 1996 and the Houston Rockets in 1999-2000, where Calvin Murphy nicknamed him "Two Sandwiches" because of his size. Key players: LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Sian Cotton, Romeo Travis. 51-68 25. 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). Key players: Jerry Lucas, Larry Emrick, Tom Sizer. 2 in all the major national polls. He's been a three-time NBA All-Star and will have made $214.2 million in career earnings when his current contract runs out after the 2022-23 season. George McGinnis scored 148 points in his last four games of the 69-state tournament for a 37-point average. After Magic Johnson, Everett didn't win another state championship until 2004, defeating Flint Carman-Ainsworth High in the state championship game. You can make an argument for Cage being the greatest high school basketball player in Arkansas history. Interestingly enough, they could have won another state title in 1963, but the school board wouldn't allow the team to play in the state tournament. "I think it's clear by the way we've been playing lately that our team is together and committed to each other. Quinn Buckner was a winner wherever he went, starting with his time at Dolton Thornridge High, where he was a Parade All-American and led the team to a 33-0 record in 1971-72, state title and mythical national title. Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas was the star player on the second of back-to-back, undefeated state and national championship teams at Middletown High. "We've still got a heartbeat . 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. Oklahoma State Record since 1938-39: 1,449-939 | Regular-season titles: 14 NCAA Tournaments: 28 | Final Fours: 6 Weeks. 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. Greatest College Basketball Teams Ever: Nos. No team from Flint Northwestern has won a state championship in any sport since the girls basketball team won it all in 1993. Jo Jo White was one of the top players to ever play high school basketball in St. Louis. Cage played in college for San Diego State, where he was a two-time WAC Player of the Year and an All-American in 1984. We began with teams No. Duckworth was selected as an NBA All-Star twice and named NBA Most Improved Player in 1988. Also known as the world-famous, Grammy Award-winning musical group The Pointer Sisters. 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. 1 and No. Findlay opened in 2006 and closed its doors in 2019, winning three mythical national titles and producing 17 NBA players and 70 Division I players in that stretch. Pointer wasn't even the most famous person in his family. Thornridge High never won another state title in boys basketball after Quinn Buckner led them to back-to-back titles in 1971 and 1972. SCNext Top 25: Ranking the best high school boys' basketball teams in the 2022-23 season. His No. Some of those teams were even better than that. The 6-foot-10 forward has the skills of a guard and has shown he can compete with the league's best if not for his proclivity for injuries. 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. 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. Boyce is on his second stint as Proviso East's head coach after being re-hired in 2016. Garnett was the National Player of the Year in 1995 and became the first high school player picked in the NBA draft in 20 years, when he was selected No. He signed with the University of Illinois but never played after the school was put on probation. He led his school to back-to-back state championships in basketball in 1976 and 1977, including an unbeaten season in the latter, when he was one of six All-State selections. But the spirits are high as the Warriors turn their sites on the postseason. 4 overall in the 2007 NBA draft. The template for how tough a high school basketball league can be has to include the Baltimore Catholic League. Future NBA players Dee Brown and Shannon Brown were teammates in the early 2000s. Lucas added an NBA championship as a member of the New York Knicks in 1973 and would have been totally at home in the current era of pro basketball. 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. Three of SLAM's college hoop junkies compiled their personal lists using a mental simulation of "Who dominated their respective season the most . Led by two future NBA draft lottery picks in brothers Lonzo Ball and LaMelo Ball (who was then just 5-foot-11 but would grow to 6-7), Chino Hills High was a national phenomenon in 2015-16 as they took down a schedule full of the nation's best teams. Articles Blogs East Exclusive FAB 50 High School High School Videos Midwest Profiles South Uncategorized West. Dominguez repeated as state champions in 2001, then won another state title in 2004 the last state championship in school history. At St. John's Catholic Prep, Vetter had the advantage of two future college stars on the team with Damien Wilkins and Jason Capel, who took down a nationally ranked schedule with tournaments in Hawaii, North Carolina and Maryland. . He cashed out a staggering $103.2 million in career earnings. Key players: Duane Ferrell, James "Pop" Tubman, Marc Wilson, Paul Edwards, Pat Sass. The steady flow of NBA talent didn't stop, either. First mentioned in 1159, Dsseldorf ("Village on the Dssel," a small tributary of the Rhine) was chartered in 1288 by the count of . Key players: Jevon Crudup, Deric Cofield, Steve Aldrich, Scott Fidler, Andy Nicholson, Bryan Harris, Jesse Battles. With Ewing on its roster, Cambridge could beat just about anybody. 50. High school assists were not a stat they were recording yet. He held the career scoring record for the Aztecs until it was broken by Kawhi Leonard in 2011. 22 Centerville and . Key players: Adrian Dantley, Kenny Carr, Billy Langloh, Eric Coard, Ron Satterthwaite, Buzzy O'Connell, Vern Allen. Key players: Kobe Bryant, Guy Stewart, Dave Rosenberg, Evan Monsky. [jwplayer lpqhoLGb-BmKM743H] It was another hardware-filled week of high school basketball around the nation, as No. 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. 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. In an All-Star game against Kentucky he had 53 points and 30 rebounds. We recently released the preseason MaxPreps Top 25 high school girls basketball rankings, highlighted by . Wawasee has had its share of bumps in the road in 2022-23. If we're trying to pick an all-time greatest player in Lone Peak history, we'd probably have to go with Jackson Emery, who went on to play for BYU and was named MWC Defensive Player of the Year in 2011. Yates set a national record by scoring at least 100 points in 15 consecutive games. Proviso East won the 1991 Class AA state championship with one of the more talented high school rosters we've ever seen the Pirates had three players selected in the 1995 NBA Draft with Illinois Mr. Basketball Sherrell Ford (Illinois-Chicago), Michael Finley (Wisconsin) and Donnie Boyce (Colorado). It went by Negro High School until 1939, when it was named after its first principal, A.H. Parker. 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. 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. 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. Key players: Larry Hollyfield, Mike Hopwood, Biff Burrell, Reynaldo Brown, Keith Lee, Louie Nelson. The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time from Ohio High Schools Wootten died in January 2020, at 88 years old. Dunbar finished the season 31-0 and beat teams from seven different states in the process. Five years before Tatum was selected, Chaminade's Bradley Beal was selected No. Dominique Wilkins went to the University of Georgia and played three seasons before leaving school early and declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft. 1 overall in the 2013 NBA draft. In 2013, Hancock was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player after he led Louisville to the national championship. In basketball-crazy Kansas, one high school team stands above all the rest the 1976-77 Wichita Heights High team led by future NBA first-round draft picks Darnell Valentine and Antoine "Big Dog" Carr. Key players: Billy Owens, Michael Coleman. 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. Use the "Find my Team" feature to quickly locate your team! 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 last state championships for Raytown South came with the undefeated team in 1989-90, but legendary head coach Bud Lathrop coached until 2006. Samuel Pierce played for Vanderbilt and became the first Black player in SEC history. Sandy Creek. 10 overall pick in 2018. We rank the top 25 boys' high school basketball programs in the country. Bloomington South is a great example of a team that didn't necessarily need to overpower teams with size to win a lot of games, going undefeated and winning a coveted Indiana state championship. Forward Duane Ferrell went on to star at Georgia Tech and played 11 seasons in the NBA. 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. How popular were the Marion High teams in this stretch? Harris transferred to Notre Dame Prep in Massachusetts for his final high school season and played for Syracuse for three seasons before declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft and going unselected. Fields, 6-foot-3, reportedly had a 50-inch vertical and once jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. Michigan has had a lot of great teams several made this list but a young Rice was truly the show here. In April 2021, at the end of his 52nd year as a high school basketball coach, he was named the AT&T National Coach of the Year. Ames went 27-0 in 2009-10 their second consecutive state championship Vance Downs was named USA Today National Coach of the Year and the team finished No. Key players: Maurice Robertson, Eugene Edgerson. 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