But this team in 93 was just incredible when you figure they had eight all-state players. Center Kentrell Gransberry became an All-Big East pick at the University of South Florida. He would do anything to get back out on the field. Williams, Jamall Walker, Manny Dies, Mark Eck, Robert Lolar. Key players: Nick Emery, T.J. Haws, Erik Mika, Talon Shumway, Connor Toolson. City was leading Cedar Rapids Jefferson 55-0 at halftime, spoiling Jeffersons homecoming event that night. Scott led Flint Hill to a 46-0 record over his final two seasons and was named the Naismith National Player of the Year as a senior when he averaged 24 points and 11 rebounds and, more importantly, was able to play all five positions. 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 (Florida) has won Geico Nationals in back-to-back years and remains No. Ellis Johnson was the star for Ashland and went on to become the first All-American for legendary head coach Adolph Rupp at the University of Kentucky while also starring in football, baseball, and track and field. Ainge also was a two-time All-State quarterback and one of the top high school baseball players in the nation as well. This was the third of three consecutive national title teams for McClymonds. Doug McDermott was named the National College Player of the Year at Creighton in 2014 and was the No. Pray for a rainout? 6-2 Mike Powell 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. 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. Ellis was a three-time All-Big 12 selection and two-time All-American at the University of Kansas. High school national championships in boys basketball come with the same momentum as winning a college football national championship. Bob Hurley Sr. would be St. Anthony High's coach for 45 years, staying at the school until the day it closed in 2017. Player, School, Avg. Lower Merion wasn't done winning state championships once Kobe left. 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). Even the coaches (fed off him). Barnes and McDermott were actually teammates in the NBA, with both playing for the Dallas Mavericks in 2018. Probably one of the more underrated teams on this list (if you can even say that), Ames High was led by a pair of future NBA first-round draft picks in Harrison Barnes and Doug McDermott. 1 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2007 NBA draft and subsequently became one of the biggest busts in professional sports history. 6-3 He was picked No. If I remember correctly, Randy Livingston was Parade All-America co-POY with Jason Kidd in 1992 and again with Rasheed Wallace in 1993. Key players: Jayson Tatum, Tyler Cook, William Gladson. East Anchorage wasn't done winning state championships when Trajan Langdon walked out the door. Another starter, Edward "Monk" Malloy, became president at the University of Notre Dame. 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. After Magic Johnson, Everett didn't win another state championship until 2004, defeating Flint Carman-Ainsworth High in the state championship game. They repeated in 1994 and have won nine total national championships. Monta Ellis ended up having a 12-year career and averaged 17.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. Kashmere High went 46-0 in 1974-75 in an era where states weren't quite as stringent on scheduling limits. Joe Covarrubias, Huntington Park--Covarrubias developed into one of the areas top point guards and was selected to the City 4-A team. Blackmon is considered a slashing-type player, preferring to drive to the basket. He held the career scoring record for the Aztecs until it was broken by Kawhi Leonard in 2011. Michigan has had a lot of great teams several made this list but a young Rice was truly the show here. Minnehaha won its third state championship in four years in 2021. Center Key players:Gene Banks, Joe Garrett, Clarence Tillman, Darryl Warwick, Mike Powell, Vincent Ross, Tyrell Biggs, Pee Wee Thomas. 6-4 Thank you for paying attention, whether it has been for all 35 DN years or barely one. 1 or No. Ronald Rhodes, Calvert, 23.4 7 overall in 2012 and won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in 2015. Summerville, Osbourn; Reginald Wade, H.D. 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. There aren't too many high school basketball players with the electro-shock hops of Simeon Career Academy's Derrick Rose, a future NBA Most Valuable Player who . Harrison Barnes has been in the NBA since he was selected No. Dominguez made it to the championship game again in 2008 but lost to McClymonds High. were 24-2 and won IAC title. 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. McClymonds, which also counts NBA legend Bill Russell among its former players, also featured another star, future MLB outfielder Aaron Pointer. Billy Owens never quite lived up to his potential on the college and pro levels. Sentinel lost in the state championship game three consecutive times before winning it all in 1986 the 10th state title in school history. Visit the RSCI website for historical rankings at various stages of the recruiting process (Fall, Pre-Summer, etc). Damian Cosby, Northern, 23.2 If he had to, he would have brought the water bottles out. Playing to a higher level during championship games, Johnson will best be remembered for the last-second shot he made to beat Mater Dei Santa Ana in the 1993 State Southern California Regionals. Led 33-1 Crimson Tide to St. Albans Key players: Rasheed Wallace, Rondell Turner, Jamahal Redmond, Lynard Stewart, Reds Smith, Terrel Stokes, Alem Watson. Mayo, Patrick Patterson, Jamaal Williams, Michael Taylor. The Associated Press provides rankings for high school football and boys and girls basketball. High school assists were not a stat they were recording yet. Daniel Deng, Wash. Int, 22.9 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. PLAYER OF THE YEAR. Key players: Cade Cunningham, Scottie Barnes, Moses Moody, Caleb Houstan, Day'Ron Sharpe. There were two future NBA players on McClymonds High's unbeaten 1959-60 team Paul Silas and Joe Ellis. Each recruit is weighted in the rankings according to a, Readers familiar with the Gaussian distribution formula will note that we use a varying value for. 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. Key players: Sherrell Ford, Michael Finley, Donnie Boyce. Tommie Davis, Crenshaw--The most controversial story this season involved Davis transfer from Fremont to Crenshaw. Matching 6-foot-10 posts and future NBA players John Thompson and Tom Hooverwould have been just fine. Brandon, who originally committed to play for Illinois, teamed with Shaquille O'Neal at LSU and helped lead the Tigers to a Sweet 16 appearance. Guy I work with was arguing that Jason Kidd was a higher ranked recruit than Randy Livingston. Was Douglas, who starred at Syracuse and played 13 seasons in the NBA, the greatest player to ever come out of Spingarn? 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. Yates High School gets all the love from us because they were a public school and won a national championship in the modern era of prep schools and diploma mills. points, 14.6 rebounds and 2.4 blocked shots. 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. This list contains annual awards given to the top national high school basketball player in the United States. Kellii Taylor, Carroll, 6-2, Jr. I have an internet white whale I'm looking for. Porter Jr. averaged 36.2 points, 13.6 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 3.2 steals, 2.7 blocks and was named Gatorade National Player of the Year. In the famous single-class system of high school basketball in Indiana, only two teams ever won three consecutive state titles Franklin High from 1920 to 1922 and Marion High from 1985 to 1987. No. Other Links > Basketball > Top Ranked Basketball Players by High School . 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. Former Hargrave head coach Kevin Keatts was hired as an assistant coach at Louisville around the same time. College highlights: None. 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). 6-5 3 overall, but he refused to play for Utah and was traded to the Atlanta Hawks a few months later. 16. It featured a starting five of all future Division I players and two future NBA draft picks, Mo Bamba and Cam Reddish, the No. In three seasons with Lucas, the Middies went 76-1. 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. McKinley; Jamail Pritchett, Quince Orchard; Chris Rhames, Anacostia; Lamon White, Colonial Beach, 23.4 Bob Brown Robert Miller, Largo, 6-0, Sr. Forward October 30, 2013 5:00 am, By High School Sports | That was when superstar junior guard Jalen Rose led them to the first of back-to-back state titles. The Baltimore Sun said that the Calvert Hall 1981-82 team was the greatest in BCL history on the league's 50th anniversary. Dunbar. . Can you imagine the sheer terror of trying to guard "The Human Highlight Film" in high school? 1993: Kolbe Cathedral (Bridgeport) 1913: 20: Maurice Harkless: SF: 2013: South Kent (South Kent) 1996: 21: 6-3 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. Jason Bell, Gar-Field; Damien Biggs, Centennial; Sammy Briggs, Good And so Tim starts doing like monkey bars on the rafters over the floor to get himself over there and then reach down and just smoothed out a spot. 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. William Peters This year's senior class will be off to their . These rankings are based on the potential influence they have as an individual. Key players: Oscar Robertson, Albert Maxey, Bill Brown, Stan Patton, Edgar Searcy. 3 overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves and was immediately traded to the Memphis Grizzlies. His 1992-93 team had a gaggle of future Division I talent in forward and Class 6A Player of the Year B.J. The Patrick School finished No. Good Counsel 4 on Boylan's all-time scoring list, averaged . Len Elmore also played for Power Memorial after Abdul-Jabbar. The team later became enveloped in scandal when head coach Russell Otis was charged with sexually molesting one of his former players and stealing money from the team's Nike sponsorship. 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. The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time from Connecticut High Schools . Followers. Khalid Shakur, Blair, 6-5, Sr. Mr. Basketball USA. Claude Green Cage needed 28 rebounds in the final game of the regular season to beat Chicago Bulls forward Charles Oakley for the rebounding title and grabbed 30. 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. Wichita South head coach Steve Eck made the move to college basketball after the 1995-96 season and his last state championship at South. Less than a decade after Buckner walked its halls, Thornridge's basketball program placed another player in the NBA with 7-foot center Kevin Duckworth. 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. 1. Bosh went on to become an 11-time NBA All-Star and won two NBA championships with the Miami Heat, when he was teamed with Dwyane Wade and LeBron James to form arguably the greatest trio in NBA history. St. Albans Parker was an All-American in his one season at Duke and the No. first appearance in City Title consolation game. 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. After not winning a state title since 1943 before Bryant led them to the title in 1996, they added two more since then, in 2006 and 2013. I may be completely wrong though. 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. Photo Galleries Explore and . Other players to receive Division I scholarships are: Crenshaw guard Tommie Davis (Houston), Crenshaw forward Tremaine Fowlkes (California), Fremont guard Calvin Patterson (Loyola Marymount), Manual Arts forward David Rickenbacker (San Diego State) and Washington forward Dayron Harris (Cal State Long Beach). But he was a star among stars, and one of the fastest and most dynamic players in the history of Iowa high school football. The list includes teams as far back as 1952 and as recent as 2013. Johnson, who transferred from Montclair Prep, became one of the first players ever selected to the Southern Section first team (1992) and to a City 4-A team (1993, 1994). Wilt Chamberlain wasn't the only NBA player to come out of Overbrook High. Washington Post baseball coach of the year in 1986. Bobby Hurley was one of three future NBA players on the roster alongside Rodrick Rhdes and Terry Dehere, as St. Anthony defeated teams from 10 different states on the way to a 32-0 record. The current Little Hawk squad has been resilient this season, bouncing back from the season-opening loss to win seven games in a row, including a 14-7 victory over then-undefeated West High on Oct 11. And the 1994 City Times boys all-star team is no exception: Seven of the 10 players have received Division I scholarships. Kirsten Stickney/For the Sun-Times. Naismith Prep Player of the Year Award. The 5-9 senior, who averaged double figures in points and assists, is considered one of the top 15 point guards in the nation and was also selected to the City 4-A team. He cashed out a staggering $103.2 million in career earnings. Longtime rival Dunbar High. In that time, Hurley won 26 state championships, four national championships and was named USA Today National Coach of the Year three times. Shot 47 percent A gifted small forward, the 6-7 senior was forced to play center and power forward after Leon Watson injured his shoulder. Findlay Prep was the most basketball factory school of all the basketball factory schools who ever existed and played on a high level. then took them all the way to the top of the USA Today Super 25 rankings as a senior in 1987. . Bishop Gorman High is known for being a football powerhouse, but in 2009-10, it featured one of the best high school teams in the nation. 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. East's star player on the latest state championship team was Hasaan Herrington, who led his team to an undefeated season and signed with NCAA Division II University of Texas-Tyler, where the head coach is former East star Louis Wilson. By Washington Post StaffFebruary 28, 2023. In his last year at TPS, Boyle had two future NBA players, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and 2012 NBA draft No. Kristaan Johnson, Crenshaw--Although he sometimes appears awkward with the ball, Johnson, who averaged 23.3 points and 9.2 rebounds, was one of the toughest players to defend, especially when he backed his way toward the basket. Oak Hill Academy didn't stop winning national titles after that first one in 1993. 10 overall pick in 2018. Key players: Paul Silas, Joe Ellis, Aaron Pointer. Rankings represent the player's final standing within his high school class in a given year. Rose was the real prize, though. Dajuan Wagner's son, D.J. Crenshaws Kristaan Johnson, who was the City Times 1993 Player of the Year, became only the third Cougar in school history to sign with the Bruins. 3 overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft. Recruiting Services Consensus Index (RSCI) Rankings - 1999. Bloomington South had two 6-foot guards who went on to play professional basketball, Jordan Hulls and Dee Davis, along with USA Today Coach of the Year J.R. Holmes on the bench. James played pro basketball overseas for seven years before he returned to Duke as an assistant coach, winning two more national titles in 2010 and 2015. Then, he went to play for the University of Missouri for his one college season. 0.9961. The son of former University of Houston standout Michael Young, from the Phi Slama Jama years, Joseph Young signed with Providence before he decided to play for the University of Houston, then eventually landed at the University of Oregon, where he was the 2015 Pac-12 Player of the Year. Meade; Neil Scott, St. Andrew's; Jason Smith, Broadneck; Darrian Greg Williams, W.T. 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. Last update: 3/2/2023, Minimum Games Played: 5; Learn more about the rankings # School Ovr . beat Peoria Manual 68-61 in the state championship game, jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. 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. 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. We came up with the 10 best high school basketball teams of all time. Six players off the Compton High national championship teams led by head coach Bill Armstrong went on to play Division I basketball. Had 20 career triple-doubles. Woodlawn star RoShon Jacobs went on to become an All-Southland pick in both football and basketball for Louisiana-Monroe. . In 1992, Kidd was Naismith, Corliss Williamson was Gatorade. Gerald Hilliard, Phelps, 6-3, Sr. 95. 3 in the USA Today Top 25. Senior. 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. 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. Then he played nine games before he underwent season-ending back surgery. 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. 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. They got some momentum going and got us out of our rhythm. 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. 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. 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. Senior It's also our second-to-last ESPN . Yates set a national record by scoring at least 100 points in 15 consecutive games. 5 Deer Lakes defeated No. 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. He averaged 21.5 points, 9.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists while leading the Toilers to the best record in the Coastal Conference. Hall of Famers Elgin Baylor and Dave Bing might have something to say about that. Of all the stars off the 1979-80 West Memphis High team, 6-foot-9 forward Michael Cage went on to have the best career.

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