In 1995, El-Amin was pulling off similar feats. The Denver Nuggets saw enough in Porter to sign him to a five-year, $175 million contract before the 2021-22 season. In 2007, a study at John Hopkins University looking at graduation rates around the U.S. classified Kashmere as a "dropout factory." "The thing I like the most is we have a strong locker room," says Wawasee head coach Jon Everingham. As a senior in 1989-90, Brandon led King to a 32-0 record and the state championship before being named mythical national champions by USA Today. The team, which also was featured in the 2018 documentary "We Town," won consecutive Independent Schools state titles in 2016 and 2017. Then, he went to play for the University of Missouri for his one college season. Lucas, at 6-foot-8, was unlike any player anyone had ever seen. They finished as state runner-up in 1988. When teams from New York end up on the national stage, it's usually coming out of New York City. In 2021, Eck returned to coaching high school basketball and back in Wichita at Kapaun Mount Carmel High School. It's not recency bias to just believe what your eyes tell you. Key players: Danny Ainge, Rodger Bates, Mike O'Neill, Greg Niko, Steve Moulton, Greg Jacobson. Forty percent of every freshmen class did not make it to graduation, and almost 60 percent of students zoned to attend Kashmere chose to attend different high schools. Cage played in college for San Diego State, where he was a two-time WAC Player of the Year and an All-American in 1984. The truly bananas fact about Oak Hill Academy's 1992-93 season is that six of the 36 wins were against college teams on the way to winning the school's first mythical high school national championship. High School All-American and Mississippi Player of the Year Monta Ellis capped his career with a second state championship for Lanier High and did it with one of the more amazing statistical seasons we've ever seen 41.0 points, 7.9 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 4.5 steals. Key players: Larry Hollyfield, Mike Hopwood, Biff Burrell, Reynaldo Brown, Keith Lee, Louie Nelson. 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. Latimore and Chino Hills responded by winning back-to-back state championships in 2018 and 2019. No.1 rankings: 134, most of any program. Key players: Tyson Chandler, Sherman Gay, Marcus Moore, Ellis Moore, Ellis Myles. Yates set a national record by scoring at least 100 points in 15 consecutive games. 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. Mayo, Patrick Patterson, Jamaal Williams, Michael Taylor. Two-time NBA champion Mario Elie and five-time NBA All-Star Chris Mullin played alongside each other for Power Memorial shortly before it closed its doors for good in 1984. Booker High won two more state championships after moving from the FIAA to the FHSAA, in 1985 and 2006. 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. Doug McDermott was named the National College Player of the Year at Creighton in 2014 and was the No. Led by back-to-back Utah Mr. Basketball picks Nick Emery and T.J. Haws, they won the Class 6A state championship. Without a question of a doubt, the 2019-20 Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.) team is one of the greatest of all-time. 1 overall in the 2013 NBA draft. 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. Niagara Falls had a future NBA first-round draft pick in sophomore guard Johnny Flynn, who averaged 15.2 points, 5.6 assists and 3.4 rebounds. He's also still in the NBA. 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. 17. Key players: Karl Godine, Jarvis Williams, Carl Byrd, Madison Lane. 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. Former Hargrave star Luke Hancock transferred to the University of Louisville in 2011 after playing his first two seasons at George Mason. Middle brother LiAngelo Ball, who actually led the team in scoring, was also key as Chino Hills took down ranked team after ranked team, including wins over Montverde Academy (Florida), Jefferson (New York), Bishop Gorman (Nevada) and Bishop MOntgomery (California). This was the first of three consecutive state championships for Minneapolis North High, but the only one of the three to go undefeated. 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. Lower Merion wasn't done winning state championships once Kobe left. But we're guessing Magic may have averaged a triple-double. Some of those teams were even better than that. Every state has its high school basketball legends. 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. 33 Lower Merion jersey now hangs above a door in the gym. 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. 2 in all the major national polls. Crispus Attucks High's most famous team was the 1955 state championship team, which became the first all-Black school to win a state championship in Indiana history. He led his school to back-to-back state championships in basketball in 1976 and 1977, including an unbeaten season in the latter, when he was one of six All-State selections. 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. They also had size that could match up with anyone they played, led by 6-foot-6 leading scorer Pete Trgovich, 6-5 senior Junior Bridgeman and 6-7 senior Tim Stoddard. He is a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. There were two future NBA players on McClymonds High's unbeaten 1959-60 team Paul Silas and Joe Ellis. They were led by a pair of future NBA first-round draft picks, Muggsy Bogues and National Player of the Year Reggie Williams, and brought another first-round pick off the bench with the late Reggie Lewis. He went on to help lead Michigan to back-to-back Final Fours, alongside childhood friend Chris Webber, and played 14 seasons in the NBA. Sandy Creek. Dwight Howard Southwest Atlanta Christian Warriors (Atlanta, Ga.). And they went 4-20. Of the three players from Camden to make it to the NBA in school history, none were on the national championship team. 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. 20 St. Paul VI, No. The last state championships for Raytown South came with the undefeated team in 1989-90, but legendary head coach Bud Lathrop coached until 2006. 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. Scott was probably a player ahead of his time. 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. Boyce is on his second stint as Proviso East's head coach after being re-hired in 2016. High school national championships in boys basketball come with the same momentum as winning a college football national championship. 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. Key players: Antoine Carr, Darnell Valentine. In December 2010, the school named its new gymnasium after Bryant after he donated$500,000 to refurbish the gymnasium one of many times Bryant gave back to his alma mater. Key players: Oscar Robertson, Albert Maxey, Bill Brown, Stan Patton, Edgar Searcy. 10 overall pick in 2018. You're not reading that wrong. 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. No. MaxPreps Top 25 High School Basketball Rankings. Dunbar finished the season 31-0 and beat teams from seven different states in the process. 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. 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. St. Anthony's was a national phenomenon. They reportedly had 6,000 season-ticket holders. 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. The 6-foot-8 forward began to pick up national attention as a senior when he had 48 points, 27 rebounds, 8 blocks and 9 dunks in a win over a much larger school a performance that earned him a spot in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" section. 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. Woe unto the unfortunate post players who had to try and guard a young Chris Bosh for Lincoln High during the 2001-02 season, because the future Basketball Hall of Famer was an absolute nightmare to try and contain. Robertson teamed with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to the 1971 NBA championship. 9 Camden, No. Holmes broke the Indiana high school career wins record with his 807th win in 2019 but didn't stop there. Detroit Southwestern High lost in the state championship game seven of the previous eight seasons before 1990. 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. 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. 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. In that time, Hurley won 26 state championships, four national championships and was named USA Today National Coach of the Year three times. Montverde's 2021-22 team was making another push to be the best in school history, with six players ranked in the ESPN Top 25, led by No. 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. It featured a starting five of all future Division I players and two future NBA draft picks, Mo Bamba and Cam Reddish, the No. Find out where your teams stands. Muhammad led the Gaels to another state championship as a senior in 2012. 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. 6 overall pick in the 1963 NBA draft. Wagner, is currently a star guard for Camden High and the No. Key players: Howard Porter, Hugh Yancy, Arthur Johnson. His 1992-93 team had a gaggle of future Division I talent in forward and Class 6A Player of the Year B.J. Williams (Kansas), forward Manny Dies (Kansas State), point guard Jamall Walker (Saint Louis) and his nephew, Mark Eck, who led Fort Hays State to an NCAA Division II national championship in 1996. Two players off the team ended up playing in the NBA Jay Humphries and Ralph Jackson. Banks scored 31 points for the Speedboys in a 72-52 win over Father Judge High in the city championship game. Five years before Tatum was selected, Chaminade's Bradley Beal was selected No. Key players: Jamie Brandon, Damian Porter, Fred Sculfield, Anton Little, Rashard Griffith. With Ewing on its roster, Cambridge could beat just about anybody. Oh, did we mention 10-year NBA veteran and first-round draft pick Jeff Grayer was also on the roster? Over the last few decades, Dunbar High School has become almost as well-known for putting out big-time football players as it once was for its elite basketball talent. After Thompson won two NBA championships with the Boston Celtics as a player, he coached at Georgetown for 27 seasons and became the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship in 1984. Marion High's eight state championships in boys basketball are the most in Indiana history, but the "Purple Reign" teams that won three consecutive titles from 1985 to 1987 are still the most well known. Sort of. Forward Duane Ferrell went on to star at Georgia Tech and played 11 seasons in the NBA. Lazare played professional basketball for eight years. In 2013, Hancock was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player after he led Louisville to the national championship. 51-68 25. His No. They repeated in 1994 and have won nine total national championships. 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. Key players: Duane Ferrell, James "Pop" Tubman, Marc Wilson, Paul Edwards, Pat Sass. Quincy was led by a pair of future Big Ten standouts, 6-foot-10 center Michael Payne (Iowa) and 6-foot-3 guard Bruce Douglas (Illinois), who played in the NBA for one season. That didn't take away from what the team actually accomplished, winning a second consecutive state championship behind 32 points from future Villanova star Corey Fisher in the championship game. Thompson went on to star at Providence. 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. 6 overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft. Key players: Reggie Williams, Muggsy Bogues, Keith James, Mike Brown, Tim Dawson, Reggie Lewis. While Quincy High has not won a state basketball championship since 1981, the school still holds Illinois records for most appearances at the state tournament (32) and most games played in the state tournament (89). 22 Centerville and . Emery and Haws both went on to play for BYU, where Haws was a two-time All-WCC selection. Top 50 Women's List. 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. Westtown isn't the only. Jayson Tatum wasn't the first player out of Chaminade Prep to go No. Milt Wagner's son, Dajuan Wagner, scored 100 points in a single game in 2001 against Camden County Tech and was the No. Montverde Academy (Florida) has won Geico Nationals in back-to-back years and remains No. Wootten died in January 2020, at 88 years old. Parker High opened in 1900 to serve African-American students. Key players: Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr., Stephen Van Treese, Damian Windham. Williams, Jamall Walker, Manny Dies, Mark Eck, Robert Lolar. Hall of Famers Elgin Baylor and Dave Bing might have something to say about that. Larry Bird played professionally in the National Basketball Association from 1979 to 1992. 1! In fact, a Flint Hill grad turned in arguably the greatest performance in ACC Tournament history. 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. 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. 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. 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. Simeon Career Academy didn't have to wait long for another generational talent to walk its halls. They were featured on "Dateline," "Regis and Kathie Lee," and in People Magazine and ended the season on a 50-game winning streak. 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. Key players: Harrison Barnes, Doug McDermott. Center Kentrell Gransberry became an All-Big East pick at the University of South Florida. McClymonds, which also counts NBA legend Bill Russell among its former players, also featured another star, future MLB outfielder Aaron Pointer. Former Hargrave head coach Kevin Keatts was hired as an assistant coach at Louisville around the same time. [jwplayer lpqhoLGb-BmKM743H] It was another hardware-filled week of high school basketball around the nation, as No. 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). Edgerson, a 6-foot-6, 235-pound forward, won a national championship at the University of Arizona and played on two Final Four teams with the Wildcats under the late Lute Olson. Pointer wasn't even the most famous person in his family. At the heart of Bloomington South's program was its ever-present head coach, J.R. Holmes. 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. Robinson was the No. Few high school basketball duos can match up with Lawrence North High's Michael Conley Jr. and Greg Oden, who led their school to three consecutive state championships and ended their careers on a 50-game winning streak. We recently released the preseason MaxPreps Top 25 high school girls basketball rankings, highlighted by . The 7-footer won two state basketball championships (1978 and 1979) while also earning Parade All-American honors. 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). 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. 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. Barnes and McDermott were actually teammates in the NBA, with both playing for the Dallas Mavericks in 2018. Samuel Pierce played for Vanderbilt and became the first Black player in SEC history. 31-50 on October 24, continued with teams No. 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. Four years later, he led Michigan to the 1989 NCAA championship. LeBron James, Patrick Ewing and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar all have one thing in common. It's worth noting the school didn't open its doors until 1997. Vandivier ranks as the first great player in Indiana basketball history, leading Franklin's Wonder Five to three-straight titles in the early 1920s and earning all-state honors each time. He cashed out a staggering $103.2 million in career earnings. Ronnie Courtney's career path is something to behold. 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. 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. He was either the No. In Philadelphia-area prep hoops history, you can count him alongside players like Wilt Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant as the all-time greats. 1d ESPN. 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. Was Douglas, who starred at Syracuse and played 13 seasons in the NBA, the greatest player to ever come out of Spingarn? Use the "Find my Team" feature to quickly locate your team! 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. Out of the trio of professional athletes on Bishop Gorman's star-studded team, Ronnie Stanley has been the most successful on the next level. Even at that, no one outshined Stackhouse. 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. 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. The NJSIAA hired a former cop to secretly videotape the team working out. 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. 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. Minnehaha won its third state championship in four years in 2021. 50. Leverage your professional network, and get hired. 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. Bob Hurley Sr. would be St. Anthony High's coach for 45 years, staying at the school until the day it closed in 2017. But this one is the best of all time.Instagram- http://www.instagram.com/matthew_ecksteinSnapch. That would be none other than Bel-Air Academy shooting guard Will Smith, the star of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and played originally by Overbrook High grad Will Smith. Key players: Pete Trgovich, Junior Bridgeman, Tim Stoddard, Darnell Adell, Ruben Bailey. It went by Negro High School until 1939, when it was named after its first principal, A.H. Parker. No story about Camden High basketball is complete with mentioning the Wagner family three generations of elite basketball talent to walk the halls. He has a good shot at becoming the first third-generation player in NBA history. 13 overall in the NBA draft several months later. Earvin "Magic" Johnson led Lansing's Everett High to a state championship in 1977 when he averaged 28.8 points and 16.8 rebounds. 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. 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. St. Nicholas' only loss came to New Jersey powerhouse St. Anthony's in a tournament in Hawaii. 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. Sentinel lost in the state championship game three consecutive times before winning it all in 1986 the 10th state title in school history. Visit Our Patreon Page to Create Your Own All-Time Fantasy Teams and See Other Bonus Material . Led by 2021 NBA draft No. The Utah Jazz selected Wilkins No. 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. 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. He held the career scoring record for the Aztecs until it was broken by Kawhi Leonard in 2011. With five players ranked in the 2023 ESPN 100 and four more ranked in the 2024 . Don't feel too bad for Ellis. The Sandy Creek Patriots out of Tyrone, Ga. had a rather front-loaded schedule. 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. 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. It also earned one of high school basketball's mythical national championships from the National Sports News Service. 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