They've won five state championships since he graduated, in 1995, 1999, 2000, 2013 and 2021 and finished as state runner-up four more times. Proviso East's legendary early 1990s teams weren't the last time multiple NBA players would be on the roster, either. LeBron James, Patrick Ewing and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar all have one thing in common. 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. 50. Key players: Shabazz Muhammad, Ronnie Stanley, Xavier Grimble. The oldest team on this list gets the most basketball-crazy state in the country's foot in the door with Kentucky, where Ashland High School went undefeated and won a national championship in 1928. While Malone would go on to have a better career, it was the 6-foot-8 forward Fair, who was the focus in high school. Southwest Macon won a state championship in 1978 and followed that with a mythical national title in 1979 led by Terry Fair and Jeff Malone. He held the career scoring record for the Aztecs until it was broken by Kawhi Leonard in 2011. Mike Welton, Billings West - Welton was a three-time all-state selection at West and is still the Golden Bears' all-time leading scorer. High school assists were not a stat they were recording yet. 6 overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft. 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. Larry Bird. 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). IMG is led by six top 50 . Wootten died in January 2020, at 88 years old. Woodlawn went a staggering 39-0 unheard of scheduling even for the last 20 years and finished No. 31-50 on October 24, continued with teams No. Samuel Pierce played for Vanderbilt and became the first Black player in SEC history. There were two future NBA players on McClymonds High's unbeaten 1959-60 team Paul Silas and Joe Ellis. Since James went No. Wichita South head coach Steve Eck made the move to college basketball after the 1995-96 season and his last state championship at South. Props to The Sentinel for putting together this powerhouse online package about Carlisle High's four consecutive state championship teams that detailed the lives of the school's players and coaches before, during and after their time in the spotlight. Key players: Curtis Walls, Lee Wall, Louis Banks, Sean Turner, Larry Cohen, Reggie Lawrence, Kevin Smith, Dennis Brown, Davis Nieves, Vic Carstarphen. Key players: Da'Quan Cook, Corey Fisher, Brad Haugabrook, Jeff Robinson. When Chino Hills hired Dennis Latimore as its coach before the 2017-18 season, LaVar Ball pulled his youngest son, LaMelo Ball, out of school and publicly criticized Latimore's hiring adding to the Ball family's history of firebombing every bridge they crossed. He was at his most dominant as a junior in 1956-57, when he scored 45 points in the state semifinals. Howard Porter went on to become a three-time All-American at Villanova and led his team to the NCAA championship game against UCLA in 1971, where he was named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player despite losing in the title game. Montverde Academy went 25-1 in 2020-21 and repeated as national champions and had another group of stars led by projected future first-round pick Calab Houstan and Creighton star Ryan Nembhard. And it was Douglas who led his team to the city championship (over DeMatha) and mythical national championship as he averaged 26 points, 6.0 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 4.0 steals. Woodlawn star RoShon Jacobs went on to become an All-Southland pick in both football and basketball for Louisiana-Monroe. In 1995, El-Amin was pulling off similar feats. Key players: Patrick Ewing, Kevin Headley. The undefeated Arkansas state championship team reached as high as No. Tyson Chandler was such a great basketball talent that the 7-foot-1 center was featured on "60 Minutes" before he even played a high school basketball game, and by the time he reached his junior year at Dominquez High, the hype was out of control. Jayson Tatum wasn't the first player out of Chaminade Prep to go No. It's worth noting the school didn't open its doors until 1997. The 1989-90 Raytown South boys basketball team went undefeated and won a state championship despite losing its best player before the season started, when star center and University of Kansas signee Chris Lindley had his foot severed in a train accident. Ellis was a three-time All-Big 12 selection and two-time All-American at the University of Kansas. It was Bradley who was the star on this team, however, as the No. Otis was eventually convicted of sexually molesting one of his players in 2009. 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. 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. 4 overall in the 2007 NBA draft. They likely would have won four straight state championships if the 2019-20 season hadn't gotten shut down. Key players: Michael Payne, Bruce Douglas. Langdon was a McDonald's All-American, a three-time All-American at Duke and played three seasons in the NBA. 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. 1. 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. He also reportedly spent time playing professionally under an alias during this time. Following Niagara Falls High's magical season in 2004-05, he was arrested on drug and domestic violence charges and spent 13 days in jail. Ballislife.com - Ballislife.com is your 1 stop shop for everything basketball! Sentinel went 27-0 and won the 1964 state championship behind 6-foot-8 forward Mike Lewis, who averaged 35 points per game and was a Parade All-American before he starred at Duke, where he was an All-ACC selection and All-American. Oak Hill Academy didn't stop winning national titles after that first one in 1993. 2 overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft after spending one season at Gonzaga. Players: Mugsy Bouges (NBA), Reggie Lewis (NBA), Reggie Williams (NBA), David Wingate (NBA), Gary Grahm (UNLV), Tim Dawson (Miami), Keith James (UNLV), Darryl Woods (Virginia Union), Jerry White Notable Wins: Camden (NJ), DeMatha (MD), John Caroll (MD), Flint Hill (VA), Cardinal Gibbons Head Coach: Bob Wade Key players: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Leonard Bennett, Dwayne Davis. 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. Hoover played at Villanova and was the No. There has been a lot of great high school basketball teams. Randolph went on to star for Michigan State and played in the NBA for 18 seasons, where he averaged 16.9 points and 9.1 rebounds for his career and racked up $195.5 million in career earnings. 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. St. Nicholas' only loss came to New Jersey powerhouse St. Anthony's in a tournament in Hawaii. Patrick Ewing swept National Player of the Year awards at Cambridge Ridge and Latin School in 1981 after leading his school to a third consecutive state championship. Then they reeled off 36 straight wins after that, capping it all with a 57-33 win over Baton Rouge Catholic High in the Class 5A state championship game. He has a good shot at becoming the first third-generation player in NBA history. 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). Dozens of future pros have walked through Oak Hill's doors perhaps none greater than Carmelo Anthony, who led Syracuse to its lone national title as a freshman in 2003. Hamilton became a basketball oddity. First things first. One of Hargrave's greatest players and its greatest coach teamed up to win a national championship on the college level. Quincy was never more dominant than when they hit the state tournament, winning four games by an average of almost 30 points. His 1992-93 team had a gaggle of future Division I talent in forward and Class 6A Player of the Year B.J. Wilt Chamberlain wasn't the only NBA player to come out of Overbrook High. Yates won its second straight Class 4A state title in Texas and won games by an average of 40 points on the way to a 32-0 record. 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. 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. Emery and Haws both went on to play for BYU, where Haws was a two-time All-WCC selection. Future Pitt All-American DeJuan Blair and St. John's . 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). 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. Booker went 33-1 and won the FIAA state title consisting of only segregated, all-Black schools. After Thompson won two NBA championships with the Boston Celtics as a player, he coached at Georgetown for 27 seasons and became the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship in 1984. Articles Blogs East Exclusive FAB 50 High School High School Videos Midwest Profiles South Uncategorized West. Marion's star backcourt of Jay Edwards and Lyndon Jones both played for Indiana University, where Edwards was the Big Ten Player of the Year in 1989. The four consecutive state championships won by Carlisle High in the mid/late 1980s were the only four in school history. 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. Inglewood High took down Long Beach Poly for the 1980 CIF state championship in front of approximately 10,644 fans and became the first team to go undefeated in 11 years in the CIF. In fact, a Flint Hill grad turned in arguably the greatest performance in ACC Tournament history. Dominique Wilkins went to the University of Georgia and played three seasons before leaving school early and declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft. Forward Duane Ferrell went on to star at Georgia Tech and played 11 seasons in the NBA. Key players: Joseph Young, Brandon Peters. Morgan Wootten coached DeMatha Catholic for 46 years, leading the school to five national championships and 33 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference titles. In 2013, Hancock was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player after he led Louisville to the national championship. 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. You got to see future NFL All-Pro wide receiver Andre Rison tossing alley-oop passes to future NBA All-Star Glen Rice. 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. Rose was the real prize, though. 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. Robinson was the No. It lies mainly on the right bank of the Rhine River, 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Cologne. 9 Camden, No. Every High School Basketball team in the nation is ranked. Thompson went on to star at Providence. With five players ranked in the 2023 ESPN 100 and four more ranked in the 2024 . By 1946, enrollment at Parker grew to 3,761 students, making it the largest exclusively African-American high school in the world. 3 overall pick in the 1990 NBA draft. 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. The template for how tough a high school basketball league can be has to include the Baltimore Catholic League. Led by back-to-back Utah Mr. Basketball picks Nick Emery and T.J. Haws, they won the Class 6A state championship. 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. After three years playing Major League Baseball, Danny Ainge turned his focus to basketball, where he won NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in 1984 and 1986. He was known for his long-distance shooting ability in an era with no 3-point line. Key players: Pete Trgovich, Junior Bridgeman, Tim Stoddard, Darnell Adell, Ruben Bailey. There are now more than 350 schools in America that play in NCAA Division I men's basketball, which is almost three times the number that competes at the highest level in college football, meaning that competition to control the sport is fierce. He signed with the University of Illinois but never played after the school was put on probation. He attended the University of Pittsburgh but never played there. No story about Camden High basketball is complete with mentioning the Wagner family three generations of elite basketball talent to walk the halls. The player who can claim GOAT status out of Compton High is currently in the NBA with five-time NBA All-Star shooting guard/small forward DeMar DeRozan, who will have made $257.6 million in career earnings once his current contract with the Chicago Bulls ends after the 2023-24 season. Findlay Prep was the most basketball factory school of all the basketball factory schools who ever existed and played on a high level. Malik Sealy had one of the more amazing backstories of anyone in basketball. Once the school was taken out of the hands of the School District of Philadelphia, things began to change. Lanier finished ranked No. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar should always be in the discussion when it comes to the greatest basketball players of all time. Being in the stands for a Flint Northwestern High basketball game in the mid-1980s must have been a treat. Billy Owens never quite lived up to his potential on the college and pro levels. Sandy Creek. Booker High won two more state championships after moving from the FIAA to the FHSAA, in 1985 and 2006. 3 overall, but he refused to play for Utah and was traded to the Atlanta Hawks a few months later. For all of Mo Bamba's basketball accomplishments, they now pale in comparison to a hit song named "Mo Bamba" written and performed by one of Bamba's childhood friends, rapper Sheck Wes. How'd the Purple Knights do it? The trio known as "The Three Amigos" beat Peoria Manual 68-61 in the state championship game and were coached by a Proviso East alum in Bill Hitt. 1! It featured a starting five of all future Division I players and two future NBA draft picks, Mo Bamba and Cam Reddish, the No. Key players: Frank Williams, Sergio McClain, Marcus Griffin. Key players: Cade Cunningham, Scottie Barnes, Moses Moody, Caleb Houstan, Day'Ron Sharpe. He was listed as a center but was by far the team's best outside shooter. The 1988 Carlisle High team featured one of the greatest high school basketball players of all time in future Syracuse star and No. 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. Dantley, 6-foot-6, and Carr, 6-7, absolutely terrorized opponents, and Wooten was a master at getting the most out of them. Joseph Young was a second-round pick in the 2015 NBA draft and played three seasons for the Indiana Pacers. Long Beach Poly's girls team, however, has become a state powerhouse in that time. 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. 1 and No. The first of St. Anthony High head coach Bob Hurley Sr.'s four mythical national championships came with his son, Bobby Hurley, leading the team at point guard. beat Peoria Manual 68-61 in the state championship game, jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. Two starters for North were declared ineligible the day before the state championship game, but he put the team on his back and beat Staples-Motley High 54-52 for the title. They repeated in 1994 and have won nine total national championships. 7 Calvary Christian, No. Rose was hardly a one-man show for the Prospectors. North was led by a future NCAA All-American and national champion in sophomore point guard Khalid El-Amin, a three-time All-State selection who led UConn to one of the most shocking upsets of all time in the 1999 NCAA championship game against Duke. Lucas, at 6-foot-8, was unlike any player anyone had ever seen. 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. 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. That year, Chamberlain scored over 70 points twice and 90 points once. 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. . Arguably the greatest player in Calvert Hall or at least the one that came to be the most well-known was still a generation away when the 1981-82 team won the national title. Ellis, a 6-foot-3 guard , was supposed to play for Mississippi State but made the improbable leap to the NBA in the final year high school players were allowed to go straight into the draft. Westtown isn't the only. Lazare played professional basketball for eight years. 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. The 2019-20 Blazer team was 28-0 heading into the state tournament, looking to become the first team to go unbeaten and win a state title since Brewers High in 1948. 5 overall by the MInnesota Timberwolves. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf became one of the most polarizing players in NBA history in 1996 when he refused to stand for the national anthem before games because he viewed the flag as a "symbol of oppression" and pointed out the long history of tyranny in the U.S. In December 2010, the school named its new gymnasium after Bryant after he donated$500,000 to refurbish the gymnasium one of many times Bryant gave back to his alma mater. The Tigers had one close game in the sectional final but won games that season by an average of 28 points and won by an average of 23 points in the state tournament. Lincoln beat three other nationally ranked teams on the way to going 40-0 and routing Beaumont Ozen, 71-51, in the Class 4A state championship game. We rank the top 25 boys' high school basketball programs in the country. "The thing I like the most is we have a strong locker room," says Wawasee head coach Jon Everingham. This was a two-year stretch under head coach Michael Peck in which Findlay went 61-1. The song was actually released in 2017 and didn't become a hit until 2018, when it went viral and climbed to No. What happened next with former Washington High star Junior Bridgeman is one of the greatest (mostly) unknown stories in basketball history. His NBA career technically stretched over seven seasons, but he only played in three because of injuries. He fractured his neck in a car accident at the end of his senior season, then pled guilty to a misdemeanor sexual abuse charge later that year, which ended up keeping him out of DePaul, where he'd signed a letter of intent. Future NBA superstar and Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was the first freshman to start on the varsity for Lower Merion High. Beal was the Gatorade National Player of the Year in 2011 and played one season at the University of Florida. Bradley averaged 19 points per game, and playing all over the country in tournaments, he brought home MVP at every single one. He was also one of the main components of one of the worst NBA trades of all time, when Golden State Warriors coach and general manager Don Nelson swapped Mitch Richmond for Owens, breaking up the Run TMC trio of Richmond, Chris Mullin and Tim Hardaway. Center Kentrell Gransberry became an All-Big East pick at the University of South Florida. 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 overall in the 2013 NBA draft. Wooten finished his career with a 1,274-192 overall record and in 2000 became the first exclusively high school basketball coach inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. The Baltimore Sun said that the Calvert Hall 1981-82 team was the greatest in BCL history on the league's 50th anniversary. Key players: Reggie Williams, Muggsy Bogues, Keith James, Mike Brown, Tim Dawson, Reggie Lewis. He was just one of three future NBA players on the roster alongside junior Voshon Lenard and senior Howard Eisley. James was hired as the head coach at Austin Peay in April 2021. Even at that, no one outshined Stackhouse. Since 1986, Sentinel has lost in the state championship game three times, in 1987, 1992 and 2008. Dominguez made it to the championship game again in 2008 but lost to McClymonds High. Peoria Manual High lost its only game of the season to Chicago Carver early in the season, then stormed back to set up a state semifinals showdown with another nationally ranked team in Thornton High. Key players: Nick Emery, T.J. Haws, Erik Mika, Talon Shumway, Connor Toolson. After Parker won the Class AA state championship, they played in a national tournament, where they took down the defending national champions from Pearl (Tennessee) High before beating Armstrong (Virginia) High in the finals. Flint Northwestern has not won a state title in boys basketball since Rice, Rison and Grayer led them to back-to-back championships in 1984 and 1985. Len Elmore also played for Power Memorial after Abdul-Jabbar. But the state tournament was canceled because of the pandemic. They also had size that could match up with anyone they played, led by 6-foot-6 leading scorer Pete Trgovich, 6-5 senior Junior Bridgeman and 6-7 senior Tim Stoddard. It's not recency bias to just believe what your eyes tell you. Montana isn't known for being a hotbed of high school sports, but the team Missoula Sentinel High put together in 1963-64 was impossible to keep off the list. 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:Gene Banks, Joe Garrett, Clarence Tillman, Darryl Warwick, Mike Powell, Vincent Ross, Tyrell Biggs, Pee Wee Thomas. The story of Kashmere High through the present day has been one of struggle. He played both baseball and basketball at the University of Arizona, where he was a three-year letter-winner. After playing on back-to-back state championship teams at Woodlawn in 2002 and 2003, 6-foot-8 forward Darnell Lazare played for LSU, where he was a solid role player for four years and helped lead the Tigers to the Final Four in 2006. Players and teams so great they took up permanent space in the memories of basketball fans. The best player for Southwestern High who kept coming up short of a state championship was probably Anderson Hunt, who eventually got a title on a much bigger stage. Another starter, Edward "Monk" Malloy, became president at the University of Notre Dame. No one could hold a candle to Chaminade College Prep's Jayson Tatum during his final two years as a high school player, when he led his school to the Class 5A state championships in 2016. Key players: Dee Davis, Jordan Hulls, Matt Carlino, Erik Fromm. Chet Holmgren swept every major national player of the year award at Minnehaha in leading them to the Class 3A state title in 2021. That's a truly remarkable feat for coach Greg Wise's squad. Future NBA players Dee Brown and Shannon Brown were teammates in the early 2000s. Few have dominated on every level like the 7-foot-2 center did. 20 St. Paul VI, No. They were featured on "Dateline," "Regis and Kathie Lee," and in People Magazine and ended the season on a 50-game winning streak. 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. One school, one spot. The calendar has turned to March, which means college basketball is officially at the forefront of the sports world.The 2022-23 campaign has been as wide-open as ever and everything is up for . Quincy High's unbeaten 33-0 season in 1980-81 was part of a 64-game winning streak, with the 1981 team winning the mythical national title and the second state title in school history and first since 1934. Bob Hurley Sr. would be St. Anthony High's coach for 45 years, staying at the school until the day it closed in 2017. 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. Key players: B.J. 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