Then he played nine games before he underwent season-ending back surgery. 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. 73. Oden was one of the most heralded recruits of the last 30 years and a two-time Parade All-American and the National Player of the Year. Key players: Cade Cunningham, Scottie Barnes, Moses Moody, Caleb Houstan, Day'Ron Sharpe. Dantley, 6-foot-6, and Carr, 6-7, absolutely terrorized opponents, and Wooten was a master at getting the most out of them. They got some momentum going and got us out of our rhythm. 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. 3 NBA draft overall pick Billy Owens, who was on all four state title teams, scored 3,000 career points and earned comparisons to Magic Johnson coming out of high school. 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. Visit . Toby Bailey, Loyola--One of the top five recruits in the state. 1 overall pick Kyrie Irving. Key players: Quinn Buckner, Mike Bonczyk, Boyd Batts. After starring at St. Nicholas, Sealy starred for St. John's University, then played eight seasons in the NBA. He was a three-time Register all-state selection. CARL BANKS, LB, BEECHER (1976-1979): A dominating defender and all-state player for the Buccaneers, Banks is one of the greatest high school players ever from the city of Flint. Led City also had an eight-year stretch from 1962-69 when it finished with a losing record six times, including an 0-9 mark in 1968. 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. 13 overall in the NBA draft several months later. 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. His NBA career technically stretched over seven seasons, but he only played in three because of injuries. Led by back-to-back Utah Mr. Basketball picks Nick Emery and T.J. Haws, they won the Class 6A state championship. Key players: Dee Davis, Jordan Hulls, Matt Carlino, Erik Fromm. Senior Of the three players from Camden to make it to the NBA in school history, none were on the national championship team. Led 33-1 Crimson Tide to 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. Ewing won a national championship with Georgetown in 1984 and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008. 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. He led the Yellowjackets to three Michigan State championships (MHSAA), finishing his senior campaign as . Harrison Barnes has been in the NBA since he was selected No. Porter Jr.'s father was hired as an assistant coach by the University of Washington before the season and brought his five-star recruit son with him to Seattle. Andre Miller, Verbum Dei--The Southern Section Division IV Player of the Year, Miller averaged 23.5 points, seven rebounds and four assists while leading the Eagles to a Southern Section title. 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. 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. Player Pos HT WT Birth City Birth Date . You can still watch Long Beach Poly's thrilling 45-44 win over Mater Dei in the CIF championship game and see for yourself why this team made the list. It's easy to understand why most people look at the 1982-83 Dunbar High squad as the de facto greatest high school basketball team of all time. Had 20 career triple-doubles. Forward Duane Ferrell went on to star at Georgia Tech and played 11 seasons in the NBA. 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. 12.7M. 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. We have great family memories of that, pictures and everything. But not the title. 2 in the final USA Today Super 25 Poll. Key players: Joseph Young, Brandon Peters. The current Little Hawk squad has lived up to that standard despite losing its final regular-season game Friday and will host Muscatine tonight in a Class 4A first-round game at Bates Field. 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. Key players: Adrian Dantley, Kenny Carr, Billy Langloh, Eric Coard, Ron Satterthwaite, Buzzy O'Connell, Vern Allen. Followers. He went on to an all-American career at Michigan State University and was selected all Big 10 three times. You can make an argument for Cage being the greatest high school basketball player in Arkansas history. Mills, Coolidge; James Moore, Robinson; Steve Napper, DeMatha; Aaron St. Vincent-St. Mary didn't stop winning state championships after LeBron James embarked on one of the greatest NBA careers of all time. 6-5 / 210. 26. Once the school was taken out of the hands of the School District of Philadelphia, things began to change. Three-year starter led Eagles to Mr. Basketball USA. In 1993, Livingston was the Naismith and Gatorade player of the year and tied with Rasheed Wallace for Parade player of the year. In a weird twist, Louisville was later stripped of its national title because of rules violations, but Hancock and a group of other players sued the NCAA, won, and his MOP and the team's tournament records stayed in place. Since 1986, Sentinel has lost in the state championship game three times, in 1987, 1992 and 2008. It was part of the Parade All-American series that originated with boys basketball before branching to other sports. O.J. Our list includes 1982 Dunbar Poets, 1993 Oak Hill Academy, 1989 St. Anthonys, 2014 Montverde, 2016 Chino Hills and many more. Jeff Malone was the SEC Player of the Year in 1983 at Mississippi State, then played 13 seasons in the NBA, where he averaged 19.0 points for his career and was a two-time All-Star. St. Albans 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. Future NBA superstar and Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was the first freshman to start on the varsity for Lower Merion High. 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. 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. Senior Squeezed in between that loss and Fridays 35-14 setback against Cedar Rapids Kennedy were seven victories in which the Little Hawks performed like a perennial playoff contender. PLAYER OF THE YEAR Washington went unbeaten on the way to the 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. 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. Key players: RoShon Jacobs, Kentrell Gransberry, Darnell Lazare. The Denver Nuggets saw enough in Porter to sign him to a five-year, $175 million contract before the 2021-22 season. Rankings represent the player's final standing within his high school class in a given year. Started by the Sunday magazine in 1957, it had been the longest ongoing selection of high school basketball . The Ravens rewarded him with a five-year, $98.7 million contract with $64 million guaranteed. Senior City finished 13-0 in 1993 and averaged nearly 44 points per game with star halfback/defensive back and future Iowa Hawkeye standout Tim Dwight leading the way. Ellis was a three-time All-Big 12 selection and two-time All-American at the University of Kansas. Ronald Rhodes, Calvert; DeRon Robinson, W.T. By his senior season, Bryant was the most heralded high school basketball player in the United States and led Lower Merion to a state championship while averaging 30.8 points, 12.0 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 4.0 steals and 3.8 blocked shots. 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. Billy Owens never quite lived up to his potential on the college and pro levels. Led the Miami Valley Conference in points per game, field-goal percentage (57.8) and . David Rickenbacker, Manual Arts--Rickenbacker was another devastating inside player whose strength and quickness were hard to stop. Attucks went 62-1 over the last two seasons with Robertson as its star. 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. The only loss for DeMatha that season? Boys Basketball AP All-Ohio Teams: 1938-39: 1939-40: 1940-41: 1941-42: 1942-43: 1943-44: 1944-45: 1945-46: 1946-47: 1947-48: . Daniel Deng, Wash. Int, 22.9 It's a pretty amazing stat line that was wasted on some pretty awful teams. Holmes broke the Indiana high school career wins record with his 807th win in 2019 but didn't stop there. By far the most difficult school to pick just one team from, we give the edge to Morgan Wooten's 1972-73 squad mainly because of the presence of Adrian Dantley and Kenny Carr, who would both become NBA lottery picks. 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. 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. 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. Monta Ellis ended up having a 12-year career and averaged 17.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. He also played seven years in the NBA. 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. 6-3 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. 16. He also reportedly spent time playing professionally under an alias during this time. Frank McQueen, Parkdale, 23.9 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. College: Notre Dame. Even as a high schooler, Tatum was developing a reputation for lighting up the scorebook. 1993 Mr. Basketball USA. 22.5 points, 12 rebounds and 5 assists. But I think the table was set for those guys in 93 and they did very well. In 2007, a study at John Hopkins University looking at graduation rates around the U.S. classified Kashmere as a "dropout factory." Led 33-1 Crimson Tide to No. 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. Key players: Paul Silas, Joe Ellis, Aaron Pointer. But it's another Overbrook product whose fictional persona (with the same name) is arguably one of the most famous fictitious basketball players in history. 1993 USA TODAY's High School Player of the Year. 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. Some of those teams were even better than that. . . 27. 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. 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. Also selected to the City 4-A team for the second consecutive season. Ashland Blazer High won three more state championships after the legendary 1928 title team in 1933, 1934 and 1961. Emery and Haws both went on to play for BYU, where Haws was a two-time All-WCC selection. Averaged 18.2 points. 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. They were featured on "Dateline," "Regis and Kathie Lee," and in People Magazine and ended the season on a 50-game winning streak. Phill Hawkins, The Heights, 22.5 Both were the top player. 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. 1993: Kolbe Cathedral (Bridgeport) 1913: 20: Maurice Harkless: SF: 2013: South Kent (South Kent) 1996: 21: Key players: Jevon Crudup, Deric Cofield, Steve Aldrich, Scott Fidler, Andy Nicholson, Bryan Harris, Jesse Battles. It went by Negro High School until 1939, when it was named after its first principal, A.H. Parker. Parker was an All-American in his one season at Duke and the No. Sealy was at his best in the postseason, when he was named MVP of both the CHSAA Tournament and state tournament in taking down fellow New York teams that included future NBA stars Jamal Mashburn (Cardinal Hayes) and Kenny Anderson (Archbishop Malloy). Jalen Hood-Schifino Montverde Academy (Montverde, FL) CG. 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. Without question, they did, said current City coach Dan Sabers, who was the defensive coordinator for the 1993 team. But this team in 93 was just incredible when you figure they had eight all-state players. What happened next with former Washington High star Junior Bridgeman is one of the greatest (mostly) unknown stories in basketball history. Even the coaches (fed off him). Winners of the City Times Player and Coach of the Year awards will be announced at the breakfast. Booker went 33-1 and won the FIAA state title consisting of only segregated, all-Black schools. Lampley, No. Nathan Langley. 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. Cameron Christie, 6-5, Rolling Meadows. . 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. How popular were the Marion High teams in this stretch? Power Memorial Academy continued to pump out elite NBA talent long after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar graduated. It wasn't just Cunningham who stood out for Montverde. Key players: Tyson Chandler, Sherman Gay, Marcus Moore, Ellis Moore, Ellis Myles. Key players: Jalen Rose, Vashon Leonard, Howard Eisley, Garland Mance, Elton Carter. Kenny Avent 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. Carroll Key players: LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Sian Cotton, Romeo Travis. Mike Powell I have an internet white whale I'm looking for. Nathan Langley, Dunbar, 22.0 Greg Jones, Cardozo, 26.8 St. Albans The song was actually released in 2017 and didn't become a hit until 2018, when it went viral and climbed to No. 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. 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. Joe Covarrubias, Huntington Park--Covarrubias developed into one of the areas top point guards and was selected to the City 4-A team. 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. He teamed with Conley to lead Ohio State to the 2007 NCAA championship game, and the two were picked No. Because of the Krider-Verbum Dei-Kashmere dispute, we always look at the 1975-76 season as the beginning of modern weekly national . Unfortunately for Simon Gratz High, the school became known for more than its basketball talent throughout the 1980s and 1990s, when it was a perennial member of the Persistently Dangerous Schools List.
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