There were two future NBA players on McClymonds High's unbeaten 1959-60 team Paul Silas and Joe Ellis. Key players: Kobe Bryant, Guy Stewart, Dave Rosenberg, Evan Monsky. In fact, a Flint Hill grad turned in arguably the greatest performance in ACC Tournament history. 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. "We're No. Sierra Canyon Cleveland, OH. 4. Duncanville (Texas) Record: 33-1 5. 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. beat Peoria Manual 68-61 in the state championship game, jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. 3 overall by the Washington Wizards in the 2012 NBA Draft. Kashmere High went 46-0 in 1974-75 in an era where states weren't quite as stringent on scheduling limits. The Patrick School finished No. . Power Memorial Academy continued to pump out elite NBA talent long after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar graduated. 29, Shelton Jones, 6-6, Amityville, N.Y., St. John's. Midseason Journal: Glue Guys. 4 in the final USA Today Top 25 poll. 46, Dwight Boyd, 6-4, Memphis, Tenn., Memphis State. 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. Key players: Rasheed Wallace, Rondell Turner, Jamahal Redmond, Lynard Stewart, Reds Smith, Terrel Stokes, Alem Watson. Player Rankings for the 2021. Harris spent the next 11 seasons playing basketball professionally all over the world just not in the NBA. 1. Jevon Crudup was the straw that stirred the drink for Raytown South, which finished No. 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. Chandler and Dominguez delivered and became the first and only California team to win a mythical national title in the era of weekly high school polls, along with their state title. "When I was in grade school, all I wanted to do was play football," said Robinson, King High School's burly senior forward. Ainge also was a two-time All-State quarterback and one of the top high school baseball players in the nation as well. Key players: Nick Emery, T.J. Haws, Erik Mika, Talon Shumway, Connor Toolson. Robinson, who has signed with Cincinnati, has been a starter for three years and has been called the most intimidating player in the Public League since Efrem Winters played at King four years ago. 14, Dave Rivers, 6-0, Jersey City, N.J., Notre Dame. The Willowridge High squad in 2000-01 was led by a pair of McDonald's All-Americans who went on to star in college and play in the NBA with Daniel Ewing and T.J. Ford. 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. Other Links > Basketball > Top Ranked Basketball Players by High School . After Magic Johnson, Everett didn't win another state championship until 2004, defeating Flint Carman-Ainsworth High in the state championship game. 3 in the national rankings and won a Class 4A state championship. Liberty's first encounters with basketball left him bored. 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. 90, Rodney Scott, 6-3, Los Angeles, UC Irvine. 69, Tyrone Howard, 6-7, Pittsburgh, Eastern Kentucky. Dominguez repeated as state champions in 2001, then won another state title in 2004 the last state championship in school history. 2 in the final USA Today Super 25 Poll. 8, Troy Lewis, 6-4, Anderson, Ind., Purdue. 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). The 6-8 Liberty, a King starter since his sophomore season, has a 21.4- point average. Key players: Curtis Walls, Lee Wall, Louis Banks, Sean Turner, Larry Cohen, Reggie Lawrence, Kevin Smith, Dennis Brown, Davis Nieves, Vic Carstarphen. The Pacers have developed an exciting, under-noticed style- they are near the top of the league in both pace and three-point volume, relying on Tyrese Haliburton's control of the machine but also . 55, Ranzino Smith, 6-0, Chapel Hill, N.C., North Carolina. Morgan Wootten coached DeMatha Catholic for 46 years, leading the school to five national championships and 33 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference titles. While Kevin Garnett was the star, Ronnie Fields also was very talented. Player Rankings. He has a good shot at becoming the first third-generation player in NBA history. 1985 USA TODAY's High School Player of the Year Sort: Player (A-Z) Col umns: Swipe 1985 USA TODAY's All-USA First Team Sort: Player (A-Z) Col umns: Swipe 1985 Mr. Basketball USA Sort: Player (A-Z) Col umns: Swipe 1985 Florida Mr. Basketball Sort: Player (A-Z) Col umns: Swipe 1985 Georgia Mr. Basketball Sort: Player (A-Z) Col umns: Swipe 7 with 1,136 wins to start the 2022-23 season. 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). 56, Vernon Johnson, 6-8, Tempe, Ariz., Arizona State. Mayo had 41 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists in the 2007 Class AAA state championship game a 103-61 win over South Charleston. In that time, Hurley won 26 state championships, four national championships and was named USA Today National Coach of the Year three times. All-Defensive Team Selections by Player NBA Referee Awards Greg Willard Spirit Award NCAA Season Awards AP Player of the Year Award John R. Wooden Award Naismith Men's College Player of the Year Award Final Four Most Outstanding Player NCAA Season Honors AP All-America Teams High School Season Honors It was Bradley who was the star on this team, however, as the No. A Findlay Prep player was actually taken No. Kevin Lynch, Bloomington Jefferson, 1985, '86, '87: In his final two seasons with the Jaguars, he led them to big-school state championships. They likely would have won four straight state championships if the 2019-20 season hadn't gotten shut down. Rose was the real prize, though. Minnehaha won its third state championship in four years in 2021. After he scored 34 points in the Proviso West Tournament title game, Illinois coach Lou Henson said Liberty "has to be one of the top two or three juniors in the country right now." 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. Stanley, at 6-foot-6 and 315 pounds, was a consensus All-American at Notre Dame in 2015, and the Baltimore Ravens selected him No. Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett transferred to Chicago's Farragut Career Academy before his senior year in 1994-95 and created one of the greatest high school basketball duos of all time when he paired up with fellow phenom Ronnie Fields, who was one year behind him in school. The NBA suspended Abdul-Rauf for his refusal to stand, and two days later, he worked out a compromise. Milt Wagner's son, Dajuan Wagner, scored 100 points in a single game in 2001 against Camden County Tech and was the No. Buckner, who was also the Illinois Player of the Year in football, also won a gold medal in the Olympics, led Indiana to an undefeated NCAA championship season in 1976 and won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics. The three-time Missouri Gatorade Player of the Year and McDonald's All-American had six 40-point games as a senior. Every state has its high school basketball legends. Liberty, his brilliant junior teammate who is Robinson's friend off the court and alter ego on it, had to be dragged --almost kicking and screaming -- onto the backlot basketball courts by his older brothers. Gazette file photo. St. Augustine star Eugene Edgerson wasn't done winning national championships. 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. 16 mins ago 2 min read. 6-8 / 200. Attucks went 62-1 over the last two seasons with Robertson as its star. Joseph Young was a second-round pick in the 2015 NBA draft and played three seasons for the Indiana Pacers. 2. The 2020-21 Arizona State Sun Devils men's basketball team represented Arizona State University during the 2020-21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The wealth of talent extends deep into the top 15. Key players: Cade Cunningham, Scottie Barnes, Moses Moody, Caleb Houstan, Day'Ron Sharpe. Key players: Tyson Chandler, Sherman Gay, Marcus Moore, Ellis Moore, Ellis Myles. He did not specify who attempted to bribe him. 72, Mitch Lee, 6-8, Hialeah, Fla., Minnesota. Lewis played six seasons in the ABA and was an ABA All-Star in 1971, but his career was cut short by an Achilles tendon injury. Key players: Jeff Malone, Terry Fair, Bobby Jones, Michael Hunt, Hook McCarthy, Eric Hightower. Randolph went on to star for Michigan State and played in the NBA for 18 seasons, where he averaged 16.9 points and 9.1 rebounds for his career and racked up $195.5 million in career earnings. This was the third of three consecutive national title teams for McClymonds. 54, Kevin Strickland, 6-5, Mt. Key players: LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Sian Cotton, Romeo Travis. Regarded as the best tall prospect to come out of Philadelphia since Wilt Chamberlain (Overbrook '55). The other 30 NFL club nominees will receive a $1,000 cash award and will also . 95.62. 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. And it was Douglas who led his team to the city championship (over DeMatha) and mythical national championship as he averaged 26 points, 6.0 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 4.0 steals. 27, Steve Miller, 6-6, Lexington, Ky., Western Kentucky. These rankings are based on the potential influence they have as an individual. Hoover played at Villanova and was the No. 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, but finished ranked No. The 6-foot-6 big man led the Gaelic Knights to sectional Class A title as a senior. 1 recruit in the class of 2023. 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. 92, Steve Kratzer, 6-8, New York, Richmond. High school basketball rankings: Preseason MaxPreps Top 25 opens with Montverde at No. 15 6 1. 8 Temple 60, No. Former Hargrave head coach Kevin Keatts was hired as an assistant coach at Louisville around the same time. 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. 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. 2023s poised for a boost in the rankings. 36, Roger McClendon, 6-4, Champaign, Ill., Cincinnati. 28, Charles Smith, 6-9, Bridgeport, Conn., Pittsburgh. 49, Tyrone Jones, 6-6, Washington, D.C., Kansas. Mayo played his final season at Huntington High and was named National Player of the Year while playing alongside another future NBA player, Patrick Patterson. As a senior at Mount Carmel High School she averaged 33.1 per game. The Denver Nuggets saw enough in Porter to sign him to a five-year, $175 million contract before the 2021-22 season. Led by 2021 NBA draft No. [1] It was part of the Parade All-American series that originated with boys basketball before branching to other sports. Courtney won another state title at George Bush High School in 2010. It was Robinson who hit the game-winning free throws against Seton Hall in overtime of the championship game. Key players: Duane Ferrell, James "Pop" Tubman, Marc Wilson, Paul Edwards, Pat Sass. She scored 2,979 points and had 1,511 rebounds during her career, ranking No. Key players: Billy Owens, Michael Coleman. Oh, did we mention 10-year NBA veteran and first-round draft pick Jeff Grayer was also on the roster? 5 SMU 85, No. Simeon Career Academy didn't have to wait long for another generational talent to walk its halls. That was then. No team from Flint Northwestern has won a state championship in any sport since the girls basketball team won it all in 1993. 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. NIL Deal Tracker; NIL News; NIL Rankings. And stories of what some colleges offered him (diamonds, movie roles, cash) are even unbelievable in today's day and age. John Thompson became much more well-known as one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all time. "When I first saw him walk on the court, I knew he could be awesome," said Robinson. The team featuring the greatest high school basketball player in Michigan history needed to be on the list. The best of the bunch was Larry Hollyfield, a 6-foot-5 guard/forward who won eight consecutive championships during his career four at Compton High, one California juco title in an unbeaten season at Compton Junior College, then three consecutive national championships at UCLA. They led state powerhouse Kansas City Wyandotte 25-0 to start the state championship game on the way to a 92-52 victory. 6 overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft. Howard Porter went on to become a three-time All-American at Villanova and led his team to the NCAA championship game against UCLA in 1971, where he was named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player despite losing in the title game. The template for how tough a high school basketball league can be has to include the Baltimore Catholic League. That season, a fine Male (Louisville, Ky.) team, led by All-Americans Darrell Griffith and Bobby Turner, started out as preseason No. 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. Older brothers Edgar and Daryl tried to guide Marcus away from his rock-throwing escapades by forcing him to play basketball. 64, Rodney Blake, 6-8, Drexel Hill, Pa., St. Joseph's. The two Parade All-Americans coached by Lafayette Norwood saw little in the way of competition throughout the year. Ellis spent the first seven seasons of his career with the Golden State Warriors and made the playoffs just once, when he was named NBA Most Improved Player in 2007. That was when superstar junior guard Jalen Rose led them to the first of back-to-back state titles. The story of Kashmere High through the present day has been one of struggle. Minnehaha featured a pair of future NBA draft lottery picks in future Gonzaga star Jalen Suggs and 2021 Gatorade Player of the Year Chet Holmgren, a 7-foot center. 1" High school boys basketball national ratings, and mythical national champions, have been around for a century. Westtown School's 2016-17 team was one of the more dominant high school basketball teams of all time. 88, Joe Coleman, 6-2, Jackson, Miss., Mississippi. They lost one game all year, but it was just the second game of the season. Center Kentrell Gransberry became an All-Big East pick at the University of South Florida. 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. Key players: Frank Williams, Sergio McClain, Marcus Griffin. Collectively, they became legends who burnished their legacies with undefeated seasons, state championships and, in some cases, national championships. 2, John Williams, 6-8, Los Angeles, Louisiana State. 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. McClymonds, which also counts NBA legend Bill Russell among its former players, also featured another star, future MLB outfielder Aaron Pointer. The song was actually released in 2017 and didn't become a hit until 2018, when it went viral and climbed to No. Some of those teams were even better than that. 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. 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). Key players: Michael Payne, Bruce Douglas. Lathrop finished his career with a 955-300 overall record, with 924 of those wins coming at Raytown South, including four state titles. 89, Todd Alexander, 6-0, Waxahachie, Texas, Minnesota. 1 or No. Other Links > Basketball > Top Ranked Basketball Players by High School . Rose was hardly a one-man show for the Prospectors. Langdon was a McDonald's All-American, a three-time All-American at Duke and played three seasons in the NBA. 1985 NCAA tournament: Scores First Round (Round of 64) East Regional No. 33 Lower Merion jersey now hangs above a door in the gym. 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. "They are the best of friends off the court, too," said King coach Landon "Sonny" Cox. "He is a man playing against boys," said Cincinnati assistant coach Jim Dudley, commenting on Robinson's 44-inch vertical leap. 1 until its loss to King in Tuesday's city title game. The 1988 Carlisle High team featured one of the greatest high school basketball players of all time in future Syracuse star and No. 8 seeded Wildcats remain the lowest seed to win the title. 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. Jayson Tatum wasn't the first player out of Chaminade Prep to go No. Booker High won two more state championships after moving from the FIAA to the FHSAA, in 1985 and 2006. Gill, a 6-foot-3-inch senior, leads Rich Central in points, rebounds, assists and steals. Rnk: . There aren't too many high school basketball players with the electro-shock hops of Simeon Career Academy's Derrick Rose, a future NBA Most Valuable Player who made Simeon the first Chicago Public League School team to win back-to-back state championships. Latimore and Chino Hills responded by winning back-to-back state championships in 2018 and 2019. Bishop Gorman High is known for being a football powerhouse, but in 2009-10, it featured one of the best high school teams in the nation. 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. Dantley, 6-foot-6, and Carr, 6-7, absolutely terrorized opponents, and Wooten was a master at getting the most out of them. JUNIOR (2016-17): Played in all 32 games and made 31 starts, averaging 31.4 minutes per game, and was named to All-Conference USA Second Team. The steady flow of NBA talent didn't stop, either. 33, Brian Sloan, 6-8, McCleansboro, Ill., Indiana. Key players: Jerry Lucas, Larry Emrick, Tom Sizer. In all, 11 Overbrook alums have made it to the league. 43. 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. Crete-Monee's Phil Henderson, a 6-4 do-it-all player, and Tony Freeman, the 5-7 wheelhorse for St. Joseph, lead the second five, which also includes Weber's Ken Redfield and Leo's Chris Henderson, two 6-6 inside men who were co-winners of the Tony Lawless Award in the Catholic League. Blazer High is still the only high school from Kentucky to win a national championship in boys basketball, where it capped off the year with a 15-10 win over Canton (Illinois) High at the National Interscholastic Tournament in Chicago. 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. 1985: Shaker (Latham) 510: 57: Vern Fleming: PG: 1985: Mater Christi (Astoria) 531: 58: Jim McMillian: SF: 61, Richard Madison, 6-8, Memphis, Tenn., Kentucky. 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