Camden High's 1986 team went unbeaten and was rewarded with a national championship from USA Today when it came out on top in the final Super 25 Poll. 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. Doug McDermott was named the National College Player of the Year at Creighton in 2014 and was the No. The undefeated Arkansas state championship team reached as high as No. 3 overall in the NBA draft. Key players: Paul Silas, Joe Ellis, Aaron Pointer. How was TPS caught? The Denver Nuggets saw enough in Porter to sign him to a five-year, $175 million contract before the 2021-22 season. Thornridge High never won another state title in boys basketball after Quinn Buckner led them to back-to-back titles in 1971 and 1972. His 1992-93 team had a gaggle of future Division I talent in forward and Class 6A Player of the Year B.J. Barnes and McDermott were actually teammates in the NBA, with both playing for the Dallas Mavericks in 2018. Key players: Jeff Malone, Terry Fair, Bobby Jones, Michael Hunt, Hook McCarthy, Eric Hightower. 4 in the final USA Today Top 25 poll. 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. The NBA suspended Abdul-Rauf for his refusal to stand, and two days later, he worked out a compromise. 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. 22 Centerville and . We rank the top 25 boys' high school basketball programs in the country. We began with teams No. Key players: Mo Bamba, Cam Reddish, Brandon Randolph, Anthony Ochefu, Jake Forrester. Ames High hasn't won another state title in boys basketball since 2010, but its two stars have remained in the basketball spotlight on the next level. Fields' basketball career never reached the heights he'd once hoped. 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. He starred in basketball for BYU but also played in the majors for the Toronto Blue Jays, where he became the youngest player in franchise history to hit a home run. Billy Owens never quite lived up to his potential on the college and pro levels. Don't feel too bad for Ellis. Dominguez repeated as state champions in 2001, then won another state title in 2004 the last state championship in school history. Ellis was a three-time All-Big 12 selection and two-time All-American at the University of Kansas. Key players: Jerry Stackhouse, Jeff McGinnis, Mark Blount, Makhtar Ndiaye, Alex Sanders, Curtis Staples, Jermaine Smith, Mike Brittain, Tavares Johnson. There has been a lot of great high school basketball teams. Quincy was never more dominant than when they hit the state tournament, winning four games by an average of almost 30 points. 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. After starring at St. Nicholas, Sealy starred for St. John's University, then played eight seasons in the NBA. 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. Pray for a rainout? Hunt was one of the standouts on Jerry Tarkanian's famous UNLV teams of the late 1980s and early 1990s and was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player in 1990 after he led the Runnin' Rebels to an NCAA championship. Key players: Danny Ainge, Rodger Bates, Mike O'Neill, Greg Niko, Steve Moulton, Greg Jacobson. Monta Ellis ended up having a 12-year career and averaged 17.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. Latimore and Chino Hills responded by winning back-to-back state championships in 2018 and 2019. This was the first of three consecutive state championships for Minneapolis North High, but the only one of the three to go undefeated. MaxPreps said Lone Peak High was the top public school team in the country in 2012-13. Chris Bosh played one season at Georgia Tech before he was the No. Key players: Oscar Robertson, Albert Maxey, Bill Brown, Stan Patton, Edgar Searcy. Key players: Da'Quan Cook, Corey Fisher, Brad Haugabrook, Jeff Robinson. Findlay Prep was the most basketball factory school of all the basketball factory schools who ever existed and played on a high level. Few high school big men in history can hold a candle to Philadelphia Simon Gratz High star Rasheed Wallace, who averaged 16 points, 15 rebounds and 7 blocks per game as a senior in 1992-93. Oak Hill Academy didn't stop winning national titles after that first one in 1993. In 2007, a study at John Hopkins University looking at graduation rates around the U.S. classified Kashmere as a "dropout factory." 1 recruit in the nation before heading off to Duke University. 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. 40 overall. 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. Holmes broke the Indiana high school career wins record with his 807th win in 2019 but didn't stop there. 2 in all the major national polls. Westtown isn't the only. 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. No. After Bridgeman left Washington, he was a two-time Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year for Louisville, then played 12 seasons in the NBA. 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. 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? Dominique Wilkins went to the University of Georgia and played three seasons before leaving school early and declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft. 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. Scott was probably a player ahead of his time. 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. Some 30 years after the first Wichita Heights dynasty, the school would experience another basketball renaissance thanks to a once-in-a-lifetime recruit with 6-foot-8 forward Perry Ellis. They likely would have won four straight state championships if the 2019-20 season hadn't gotten shut down. Milt Wagner's son, Dajuan Wagner, scored 100 points in a single game in 2001 against Camden County Tech and was the No. The two most sought-after players in the country in 1984-85 resided in the D.C. area with 6-foot-11 DeMatha High forward/center Danny Ferry and Spingarn High point guard Sherman Douglas, just 6-foot-1 and 160 pounds. Larry Bird played professionally in the National Basketball Association from 1979 to 1992. Key players: Wilt Chamberlain, Vince Miller, Marty Hughes, Howard Johnson, Dave Shapiro. 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. beat Peoria Manual 68-61 in the state championship game, jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. His No. 3 in the nation in the polls and featured two future NBA lottery picks, 6-foot-9 forward Michael Cage and 6-10 center Keith Lee, with Cage as the alpha dog of the group. 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. Even at that, no one outshined Stackhouse. Wichita South head coach Steve Eck made the move to college basketball after the 1995-96 season and his last state championship at South. Key players: RoShon Jacobs, Kentrell Gransberry, Darnell Lazare. 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. 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. 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. Key players: Joseph Young, Brandon Peters. Proviso East's legendary early 1990s teams weren't the last time multiple NBA players would be on the roster, either. Some of those teams were even better than that. Former Hargrave head coach Kevin Keatts was hired as an assistant coach at Louisville around the same time. They led state powerhouse Kansas City Wyandotte 25-0 to start the state championship game on the way to a 92-52 victory. Wootten died in January 2020, at 88 years old. They were featured on "Dateline," "Regis and Kathie Lee," and in People Magazine and ended the season on a 50-game winning streak. He also set the NYC scoring record and went 79-2 in those three seasons, with two national championships and one national runner-up finish. staggering $103.2 million in career earnings. MaxPreps High School Basketball Rankings. They finished as state runner-up in 1988. 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. Led by future NBA lottery pick Shabazz Muhammad and a a pair of future NFL players in Ronnie Stanley and Xavier Grimble, Bishop Gorman only lost to California powerhouse Mater Dei and to fellow Nevada standout Findlay Prep before winning the state championship. Paul Harris ended up being a case of "what if." [jwplayer lpqhoLGb-BmKM743H] It was another hardware-filled week of high school basketball around the nation, as No. After Bryant's death in a helicopter crash in January 2020, the school hosted a memorial service in the gym named after the fallen star. Westtown School's 2016-17 team was one of the more dominant high school basketball teams of all time. Wilt Chamberlain wasn't the only NBA player to come out of Overbrook High. But we're guessing Magic may have averaged a triple-double. Players and teams so great they took up permanent space in the memories of basketball fans. Parker was an All-American in his one season at Duke and the No. Beal was the Gatorade National Player of the Year in 2011 and played one season at the University of Florida. That was when superstar junior guard Jalen Rose led them to the first of back-to-back state titles. The history of Parker High School encompasses much more than what happens on a basketball court. Sentinel didn't win a state championship for almost a decade, before going back-to-back in 1972 and 1973. 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. Simeon Career Academy didn't have to wait long for another generational talent to walk its halls. Future Pitt All-American DeJuan Blair and St. John's . Leverage your professional network, and get hired. Kennedy strolled to a . In the late 1930s, Art Spector was the star for West Philadelphia. Key players: Jalen Rose, Vashon Leonard, Howard Eisley, Garland Mance, Elton Carter. UCLA coach John Wooden once called Wooten "the finest coach on any level high school, college, or pro. Not by a long shot. 3 overall by the Washington Wizards in the 2012 NBA Draft. 3 scorer in state history. Three of SLAM's college hoop junkies compiled their personal lists using a mental simulation of "Who dominated their respective season the most . Tatum went on to star for Duke, where he played one season before he was the No. 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. 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. Key players: Glen Rice, Andre Rison, Jeff Grayer. In front of 11,522 fans, future Illinois star Frank Williams guided them to the 65-62 win. 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. After Khalid El-Amin led Minneapolis North Community High to three consecutive state championships, the school didn't win another state title until 2003, then not again after that until winning back-to-back titles in 2016 and 2017. Kashmere brought home more than just a Class 4A state title in 1975. 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. Jevon Crudup was the straw that stirred the drink for Raytown South, which finished No. The NJSIAA hired a former cop to secretly videotape the team working out. "I think it's clear by the way we've been playing lately that our team is together and committed to each other. 2 overall pick by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2014 NBA draft. James was hired as the head coach at Austin Peay in April 2021. Once the school was taken out of the hands of the School District of Philadelphia, things began to change. Inglewood has not played for a state championship since its undefeated team won it all in 1980. The Hargrave Military Academy 1998-99 basketball team was an absolute problem. In 2021, Eck returned to coaching high school basketball and back in Wichita at Kapaun Mount Carmel High School. McClymonds, which also counts NBA legend Bill Russell among its former players, also featured another star, future MLB outfielder Aaron Pointer. Some of those teams were even better than that. St. Nicholas' only loss came to New Jersey powerhouse St. Anthony's in a tournament in Hawaii. Key players: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Leonard Bennett, Dwayne Davis. 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. 5 overall recruit Dariq Whitehead, a 6-foot-6 small forward signed to play for Duke. Jayson Tatum wasn't the first player out of Chaminade Prep to go No. 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. 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. Matching 6-foot-10 posts and future NBA players John Thompson and Tom Hooverwould have been just fine. At one point in the early 2000s, the basketball and football teams featured a pair of future NFL Pro Bowlers as teammates quarterback Josh Cribbs, who became an elite return specialist in the NFL, and tight end Vernon Davis. 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. He would stand during the anthem but looked downward and recited Islamic prayer. 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. Earvin "Magic" Johnson led Lansing's Everett High to a state championship in 1977 when he averaged 28.8 points and 16.8 rebounds. He also played seven years in the NBA. How popular were the Marion High teams in this stretch? Cage played 15 seasons in the NBA and led the league in rebounding while playing for the Los Angeles Clippers in 1988. 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. Four years later, he led Michigan to the 1989 NCAA championship. Woodlawn star RoShon Jacobs went on to become an All-Southland pick in both football and basketball for Louisiana-Monroe. Ranking Explanation . But the state tournament was canceled because of the pandemic. 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. Booker High won two more state championships after moving from the FIAA to the FHSAA, in 1985 and 2006. 1. . 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. 2 overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft after spending one season at Gonzaga. 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 also reportedly spent time playing professionally under an alias during this time. Key players: Maurice Robertson, Eugene Edgerson. The last state championships for Raytown South came with the undefeated team in 1989-90, but legendary head coach Bud Lathrop coached until 2006. Key players: Pete Trgovich, Junior Bridgeman, Tim Stoddard, Darnell Adell, Ruben Bailey. 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). 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 Quincy also has one of the more incredible pregame routines you will ever see unique enough that it's detailed in a book, "Stand Up and Cheer: A Century of Blue Devil Basketball," written by Quincy Herald-Whig sportswriter Matt Schuckman. 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. 3 in the USA Today Top 25. Wawasee has had its share of bumps in the road in 2022-23. It's worth noting the school didn't open its doors until 1997. At the heart of Bloomington South's program was its ever-present head coach, J.R. Holmes. 7 overall recruit in the country. Best Japanese Restaurants in Dsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia: Find Tripadvisor traveler reviews of Dsseldorf Japanese restaurants and search by price, location, and more. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Wallace, who went on to star at UNC and play 16 seasons in the NBA, was the big story and was featured in Sports Illustrated that year. 5 overall by the MInnesota Timberwolves. Then known as Lew Alcindor, he led New York City's Power Memorial High to a 71-game winning streak and three consecutive city championships and was a two-time Parade All-American. Head coach Kevin Boyle was named USA Today National Coach of the Year in 2007 as well. 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. First appearance: March 8, 1949. Otis was eventually convicted of sexually molesting one of his players in 2009. The star players on its 2016-17 team were Mo Bamba and Cameron Reddish; other top players included heralded recruits Brandon Randolph, Anthony Ochefu and Jake Forrester. Three years later, Rison led Michigan State to the Rose Bowl. High school assists were not a stat they were recording yet. 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 . This was the third of three consecutive national title teams for McClymonds. St. Anthony's was a national phenomenon. Wilkins went on to become arguably the greatest player in franchise history. 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. Few teams have done what St. Augustine High did in 1994-95, climbing from unranked in the preseason all the way to the top of all the major national high school polls by the end of the year. Bobby Hurley went on to win two national championships at Duke in 1991 and 1992. Fields, 6-foot-3, reportedly had a 50-inch vertical and once jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. Key players: Rasheed Wallace, Rondell Turner, Jamahal Redmond, Lynard Stewart, Reds Smith, Terrel Stokes, Alem Watson. 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. 2 recruit in the country depending on which service you looked at, and ended up playing alongside the guy he shared those top rankings with at the University of North Carolina Simon Gratz High's Rasheed Wallace. 1 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2007 NBA draft and subsequently became one of the biggest busts in professional sports history. It was Bradley who was the star on this team, however, as the No. Rose and Simeon won titles in 2006 and 2007. 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. Dajuan Wagner's son, D.J. Wilt Chamberlain led Cecil Mosenson's Overbrook High teams to back-to-back Philadelphia city championships in his final two seasons and was never more dominant than in his senior season of 1954-55. That's a truly remarkable feat for coach Greg Wise's squad. 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. They ended the year on a 58-game winning streak and defeated state champions from three different states, including national No. 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. Washington went unbeaten on the way to the state championship. 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