Matching 6-foot-10 posts and future NBA players John Thompson and Tom Hooverwould have been just fine. He was at his most dominant as a junior in 1956-57, when he scored 45 points in the state semifinals. Sentinel didn't win a state championship for almost a decade, before going back-to-back in 1972 and 1973. 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. Boyce is on his second stint as Proviso East's head coach after being re-hired in 2016. Westtown isn't the only. Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins led Washington High to back-to-back Class 3A state championships in his final two years of high school, including a 29-0 season as a senior. 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. 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. Key players: Curtis Walls, Lee Wall, Louis Banks, Sean Turner, Larry Cohen, Reggie Lawrence, Kevin Smith, Dennis Brown, Davis Nieves, Vic Carstarphen. 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. O.J. 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 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. Key players: Nick Emery, T.J. Haws, Erik Mika, Talon Shumway, Connor Toolson. They repeated in 1994 and have won nine total national championships. 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. The best team their school ever had was the next year, when future NBA legend Oscar Robertson was a senior and led the team to 31-0 record and was named Mr. Basketball in Indiana. With just one rule. 13 in final MaxPreps Top 25 Breakdown: The school's all-time leading scorer Jalen Suggs is now at Gonzaga . The Poets went wire-to-wire as the No. Detroit Southwestern High lost in the state championship game seven of the previous eight seasons before 1990. Dunbar finished the season 31-0 and beat teams from seven different states in the process. 16-30 on October 25 and now have published an in-depth look at the nation's 50 best teams. Proviso East's legendary early 1990s teams weren't the last time multiple NBA players would be on the roster, either. The Ravens rewarded him with a five-year, $98.7 million contract with $64 million guaranteed. Use the "Find my Team" feature to quickly locate your team! Since 1986, Sentinel has lost in the state championship game three times, in 1987, 1992 and 2008. McClymonds went 32-0 that season, becoming the first high school basketball team from the East Bay to go unbeaten since Berkeley High in 1969-70. Dennis Scott led Flint Hill to a national runner-up finish as a junior in 1986, then took them all the way to the top of the USA Today Super 25 rankings as a senior in 1987. 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. Kashmere brought home more than just a Class 4A state title in 1975. Collectively, they became legends who burnished their legacies with undefeated seasons, state championships and, in some cases, national championships. Holmes broke the Indiana high school career wins record with his 807th win in 2019 but didn't stop there. Westtown School's 2016-17 team was one of the more dominant high school basketball teams of all time. 3 overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft. Hurley's son Bobby is now the head coach at Arizona State, and his son Danny is the head coach at the University of Connecticut. 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. Larry Bird from the 1977 "Sycamore" student yearbook photo sourced from Wikimedia commons. Future Pitt All-American DeJuan Blair and St. John's . Mike Welton, Billings West - Welton was a three-time all-state selection at West and is still the Golden Bears' all-time leading scorer. They ended the year on a 58-game winning streak and defeated state champions from three different states, including national No. That's a truly remarkable feat for coach Greg Wise's squad. In the late 1930s, Art Spector was the star for West Philadelphia. 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. 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? Can you imagine the sheer terror of trying to guard "The Human Highlight Film" in high school? No story about Camden High basketball is complete with mentioning the Wagner family three generations of elite basketball talent to walk the halls. Oscar Robertson left Crispus Attucks High and embarked on one of the greatest college and pro basketball careers of all time. 13 overall in the NBA draft several months later. Terry Fair went on to star at the University of Georgia then played 11 years of professional basketball overseas, mostly in Israel's top league. 3 overall in the NBA draft. 20 St. Paul VI, No. 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. Key players: Paul Silas, Joe Ellis, Aaron Pointer. Head coach Russell Otis was acquitted in his trial for sexually molesting one of his players and reclaimed his job before the 2002-03 season. In 1995, El-Amin was pulling off similar feats. 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. Lawrence North High star Greg Oden was picked No. 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. Schenley has had some powerful teams over the years, but as it relates to our time frame, the 2007 group is the one that makes the cut. On the 50th anniversary of our All-Metro Team, White was selected to 50 years: The All-time all-metro . 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. Mayo, Patrick Patterson, Jamaal Williams, Michael Taylor. Today's top 17 Teacher jobs in Dsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It went by Negro High School until 1939, when it was named after its first principal, A.H. Parker. Simply breathtaking. 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. They lost one game all year, but it was just the second game of the season. 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. Key players: Rasheed Wallace, Rondell Turner, Jamahal Redmond, Lynard Stewart, Reds Smith, Terrel Stokes, Alem Watson. You're not reading that wrong. Long Beach Poly has won six state championships since 2006, including four consecutive from 2006 to 2009 and back-to-back titles in 2013 and 2014. Lower Merion wasn't done winning state championships once Kobe left. staggering $103.2 million in career earnings. He has a good shot at becoming the first third-generation player in NBA history. It wasn't just Cunningham who stood out for Montverde. MORE: Carl Hayden's greatest high school basketball players. Few high school athletes anywhere, ever, can compare with Danny Ainge at North Eugene High School. 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 It also earned one of high school basketball's mythical national championships from the National Sports News Service. In an All-Star game against Kentucky he had 53 points and 30 rebounds. 3 overall, but he refused to play for Utah and was traded to the Atlanta Hawks a few months later. 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. And stories of what some colleges offered him (diamonds, movie roles, cash) are even unbelievable in today's day and age. Key players: Adrian Dantley, Kenny Carr, Billy Langloh, Eric Coard, Ron Satterthwaite, Buzzy O'Connell, Vern Allen. Fields, 6-foot-3, reportedly had a 50-inch vertical and once jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. He is a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. 3 overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves and was immediately traded to the Memphis Grizzlies. 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. Abdul-Rauf was one of the most highly recruited players in the country coming out of high school and played two seasons for LSU, where he was an All-American both years, then was the No. One of the cool things about Carlisle High was the credit given to the "Gold Team" the backup players who guarded the starters in practice. 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. 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. 50. High school national championships in boys basketball come with the same momentum as winning a college football national championship. The Sandy Creek Patriots out of Tyrone, Ga. had a rather front-loaded schedule. He also played seven years in the NBA. Oklahoma State Record since 1938-39: 1,449-939 | Regular-season titles: 14 NCAA Tournaments: 28 | Final Fours: 6 Weeks. 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. The player who led the way for Long Beach Poly was 6-foot-4 guard Morlon Wiley, who went on to start four years at nearby Long Beach State. 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. He's been a three-time NBA All-Star and will have made $214.2 million in career earnings when his current contract runs out after the 2022-23 season. 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. Five years before Tatum was selected, Chaminade's Bradley Beal was selected No. 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. 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. 6 overall in the 2016 NFL draft. The talent faucet didn't just shut off after Dennis Scott and Co. left in the late 1980s. Key players: Larry Hollyfield, Mike Hopwood, Biff Burrell, Reynaldo Brown, Keith Lee, Louie Nelson. Wilt Chamberlain wasn't the only NBA player to come out of Overbrook High. 1. Even as a high schooler, Tatum was developing a reputation for lighting up the scorebook. Flynn, who played collegiately at Syracuse, had the perfect complement in wing Paul Harris, who earned a reputation as an elite shutdown defender against some of the nation's top players. 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. Chris Bosh played one season at Georgia Tech before he was the No. Yates set a national record by scoring at least 100 points in 15 consecutive games. 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. 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. Former Nathan Hale High star Michael Porter Jr. has become one of the most befuddling NBA prospects to come along in some time. 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. 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. 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. Greatest High School Basketball Teams of All Time By Tony Adame, updated on June 6, 2022 drebwell / Twitter Every state has its high school basketball legends. McClymonds, which also counts NBA legend Bill Russell among its former players, also featured another star, future MLB outfielder Aaron Pointer. Key players: Malik Sealy, Brian Reese, Adrian Autry. Key players: Oscar Robertson, Albert Maxey, Bill Brown, Stan Patton, Edgar Searcy. The team's first four games were against teams that have appeared in the top 50. Lanier finished ranked No. In 1995, Randolph Childress averaged 35.7 points and 7.0 assists in the ACC Tournament, leading Wake Forest to the championship and hitting the game-winner against North Carolina in the finals. "The thing I like the most is we have a strong locker room," says Wawasee head coach Jon Everingham. The song was actually released in 2017 and didn't become a hit until 2018, when it went viral and climbed to No. Wagner, is currently a star guard for Camden High and the No. They finished as state runner-up in 1988. He signed with the University of Illinois but never played after the school was put on probation. 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. 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. Banks scored 31 points for the Speedboys in a 72-52 win over Father Judge High in the city championship game. 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. Key players: Jamie Brandon, Damian Porter, Fred Sculfield, Anton Little, Rashard Griffith. 1 or No. 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. Camden High guard Milt Wagner went on to lead Louisville to three Final Fours and the 1986 NCAA championships before winning an NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1988. Re: Best outlet malls in Dusseldorf!! Rose was hardly a one-man show for the Prospectors. Wiley then played more than a decade of professional basketball, including seven seasons in the NBA. The story of Kashmere High through the present day has been one of struggle. This was a two-year stretch under head coach Michael Peck in which Findlay went 61-1. All-Time Top 50 Men's List. Key players:Gene Banks, Joe Garrett, Clarence Tillman, Darryl Warwick, Mike Powell, Vincent Ross, Tyrell Biggs, Pee Wee Thomas. The two Parade All-Americans coached by Lafayette Norwood saw little in the way of competition throughout the year. "I think it's clear by the way we've been playing lately that our team is together and committed to each other. Alongside Tom Gola, Wilt Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant, Banks is often thought of as one of the greatest Philly-area high school players of all time. Parker High opened in 1900 to serve African-American students. Wilkins went on to become arguably the greatest player in franchise history. MaxPreps Top 25 High School Basketball Rankings. Paterson Kennedy's Jayden Briggs grabs the rebound away from Ridgewood's Matt Favieri (5) in the North 1, Group 4 high school basketball final in Paterson on Tuesday evening. Former Hargrave head coach Kevin Keatts was hired as an assistant coach at Louisville around the same time. Crudup averaged 28.9 points and 13.0 rebounds as a senior, went on to star for the University of Missouri and was a second-round draft pick by the Detroit Pistons in 1994. Peoria Manual closed out the year with its fourth straight championship and was led in scoring by head coach Wayne McClain's son, Sergio McClain. Then he played nine games before he underwent season-ending back surgery. 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. But this one is the best of all time.Instagram- http://www.instagram.com/matthew_ecksteinSnapch. MaxPreps High School Basketball Rankings. 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. Key players: Kobe Bryant, Guy Stewart, Dave Rosenberg, Evan Monsky. Key players: LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Sian Cotton, Romeo Travis. Sentinel lost in the state championship game three consecutive times before winning it all in 1986 the 10th state title in school history. At St. John's Catholic Prep, Vetter had the advantage of two future college stars on the team with Damien Wilkins and Jason Capel, who took down a nationally ranked schedule with tournaments in Hawaii, North Carolina and Maryland. Bosh was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021. 1. . Bradley averaged 19 points per game, and playing all over the country in tournaments, he brought home MVP at every single one. East Chicago Washington High averaged 95 points per game during the 1970-71 season, led by a bevy of future pro and college talent. Longtime rival Dunbar High. These are the greatest high school basketball teams of all time. After California made its state championship games in basketball official in 1981, McClymonds didn't play in the championship game until 2007, when it finished as state runner-up, and won its only title to date in 2008 under head coach Dwight Nathaniel. We conclude our 2021-22 preseason FAB 50 National Team Rankings powered by Ballislife.com with an in-depth look at the nation's top 15 teams. Pointer wasn't even the most famous person in his family. Dwight Howard Southwest Atlanta Christian Warriors (Atlanta, Ga.). They likely would have won four straight state championships if the 2019-20 season hadn't gotten shut down. That doesn't mean the school hasn't continued to pump out big-time talent, including Basketball Hall of Famer Paul Pierce, Harold "Baby Jordan" Miner and Jason Hart, who starred at Syracuse and played a decade in the NBA. I stand in awe of him.". West Philadelphia High won a mythical national championship in 1977 behind three-time high school All-American Gene "Tinkerbell" Banks, a 6-foot-7 forward who went on to star at Duke and play in the NBA for six seasons. O.J. 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. 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. 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. . After Magic Johnson, Everett didn't win another state championship until 2004, defeating Flint Carman-Ainsworth High in the state championship game. Four years later, he led Michigan to the 1989 NCAA championship. Key players: Billy Owens, Michael Coleman. The school ultimately closed its doors in 2013. It's routinely viewed as one of the worst high schools in the country when it comes to academics. 1st Regular Season FAB 50: NEW No. Key players: Cade Cunningham, Scottie Barnes, Moses Moody, Caleb Houstan, Day'Ron Sharpe. Key players: Patrick Ewing, Kevin Headley. 2 overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft after spending one season at Gonzaga. Another starter, Edward "Monk" Malloy, became president at the University of Notre Dame. Center Kentrell Gransberry became an All-Big East pick at the University of South Florida. That year, Chamberlain scored over 70 points twice and 90 points once. 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. 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. Emery and Haws both went on to play for BYU, where Haws was a two-time All-WCC selection. The four consecutive state championships won by Carlisle High in the mid/late 1980s were the only four in school history. 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. Calvert Hall played a national schedule that year that included wins over D.C.'s Spingarn High and a victory in a 1-2 matchup against Camden (New Jersey) High. One of Hargrave's greatest players and its greatest coach teamed up to win a national championship on the college level. Visit Our Patreon Page to Create Your Own All-Time Fantasy Teams and See Other Bonus Material . 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 R&B/Hip-Hop chart. 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. Led by 2021 NBA draft No. 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. 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. Key players: Jay Humphries, Ralph Jackson. 1 recruit in the class of 2023. 17. MaxPreps said Lone Peak High was the top public school team in the country in 2012-13. His 1992-93 team had a gaggle of future Division I talent in forward and Class 6A Player of the Year B.J. 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. Don't feel too bad for Ellis. 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. There has been a lot of great high school basketball teams. Key players: Antoine Carr, Darnell Valentine. 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. 1. Jevon Crudup was the straw that stirred the drink for Raytown South, which finished No. 1! 5 overall by the MInnesota Timberwolves. They led state powerhouse Kansas City Wyandotte 25-0 to start the state championship game on the way to a 92-52 victory. IMG is led by six top 50 . They went 75-1 over their final two seasons together at Willowridge. Future NBA superstar and Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was the first freshman to start on the varsity for Lower Merion High. The undefeated Arkansas state championship team reached as high as No. Key players: Shabazz Muhammad, Ronnie Stanley, Xavier Grimble. Long Beach Poly has not won a state championship in boys basketball since its legendary 1983-84 squad, finishing as runner-up just once, in 2016. With Ewing on its roster, Cambridge could beat just about anybody. And they went 4-20. 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. beat Peoria Manual 68-61 in the state championship game, jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. 9 Camden, No. 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. Chet Holmgren swept every major national player of the year award at Minnehaha in leading them to the Class 3A state title in 2021. Key players: Maurice Robertson, Eugene Edgerson. He attended the University of Pittsburgh but never played there. 3 in the national rankings and won a Class 4A state championship. College basketball has been played since the 1890s, with some schools making a name for themselves throughout the following 130 years. It featured a starting five of all future Division I players and two future NBA draft picks, Mo Bamba and Cam Reddish, the No. Players and teams so great they took up permanent space in the memories of basketball fans. He was picked No. Players and teams so great they took up permanent space in the memories of basketball fans. Montverde Academy of Florida is the . The history of Parker High School encompasses much more than what happens on a basketball court. Parker was an All-American in his one season at Duke and the No. Key players: Quinn Buckner, Mike Bonczyk, Boyd Batts. 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. Key players: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Leonard Bennett, Dwayne Davis. Hoover played at Villanova and was the No. Strong, powerful point guard who led the Falcons to a state championship. Coached by a former NBA star in Brandon Roy, Nathan Hale High grabbed a state championship and a handful of national championships by going unbeaten behind future NBA star forward Michael Porter Jr. Not everyone was a fan of how Nathan Hale put its team together, though. We began with teams No. 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. 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. No.1 rankings: 134, most of any program. 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