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. Key players: Da'Quan Cook, Corey Fisher, Brad Haugabrook, Jeff Robinson. Rice played 15 seasons in the NBA, was a three-time NBA All-Star, All-Star Game MVP in 1997 and a two-time All-NBA pick. He held the career scoring record for the Aztecs until it was broken by Kawhi Leonard in 2011. 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. Lower Merion wasn't done winning state championships once Kobe left. 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. Four years later, he led Michigan to the 1989 NCAA championship. In 2021, Eck returned to coaching high school basketball and back in Wichita at Kapaun Mount Carmel High School. Key players: LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Sian Cotton, Romeo Travis. Key players: Howard Porter, Hugh Yancy, Arthur Johnson. St. Anthony's was a national phenomenon. Once the school was taken out of the hands of the School District of Philadelphia, things began to change. 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. Long Beach Poly's girls team, however, has become a state powerhouse in that time. 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. UCLA (957 Points) Total appearances: 60.17% of all polls. He would stand during the anthem but looked downward and recited Islamic prayer. 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. 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. The team's first four games were against teams that have appeared in the top 50. Five years before Tatum was selected, Chaminade's Bradley Beal was selected No. 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. 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. 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. Key players: Duane Ferrell, James "Pop" Tubman, Marc Wilson, Paul Edwards, Pat Sass. One year later, head coach Kevin Boyle left TPS to become the new coach at Montverde Academy. Nationally-ranked programs Bishop McNamara, DeSoto, La Jolla Country Day headline list. 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. 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. Billy Owens never quite lived up to his potential on the college and pro levels. No. Earvin "Magic" Johnson led Lansing's Everett High to a state championship in 1977 when he averaged 28.8 points and 16.8 rebounds. They ended the year on a 58-game winning streak and defeated state champions from three different states, including national No. Key players: Curtis Walls, Lee Wall, Louis Banks, Sean Turner, Larry Cohen, Reggie Lawrence, Kevin Smith, Dennis Brown, Davis Nieves, Vic Carstarphen. 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. 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. 4 in the final USA Today Top 25 poll. Key players: Sherrell Ford, Michael Finley, Donnie Boyce. Dozens of future pros have walked through Oak Hill's doors perhaps none greater than Carmelo Anthony, who led Syracuse to its lone national title as a freshman in 2003. Key players: Michael Payne, Bruce Douglas. 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. McClymonds, which also counts NBA legend Bill Russell among its former players, also featured another star, future MLB outfielder Aaron Pointer. Booker went 33-1 and won the FIAA state title consisting of only segregated, all-Black schools. Findlay opened in 2006 and closed its doors in 2019, winning three mythical national titles and producing 17 NBA players and 70 Division I players in that stretch. Six players off the Compton High national championship teams led by head coach Bill Armstrong went on to play Division I basketball. Wagner, is currently a star guard for Camden High and the No. Key players: Bobby Hurley, Rodrick Rhodes, Jerry Walker, Terry DeHere, Danny Hurley. Even as a high schooler, Tatum was developing a reputation for lighting up the scorebook. Larry Bird. At 6-foot-8, he was a 3-point shooter and one of the best long-distance shooters of the 1990s, when he played 11 seasons in the NBA. Ainge also was a two-time All-State quarterback and one of the top high school baseball players in the nation as well. Oak Hill featured a starting lineup with four future NBA players Jerry Stackhouse, Jeff McGinnis, Mark Blount and Makhtar Ddiaye and had another five future Division I players on the roster. This was the third of three consecutive national title teams for McClymonds. Key players: Jayson Tatum, Tyler Cook, William Gladson. Ronnie Courtney's career path is something to behold. Key players: B.J. Williams, Jamall Walker, Manny Dies, Mark Eck, Robert Lolar. He played one season at USC before he was the 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. 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. The team featuring the greatest high school basketball player in Michigan history needed to be on the list. In his last year at TPS, Boyle had two future NBA players, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and 2012 NBA draft No. 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. Chet Holmgren swept every major national player of the year award at Minnehaha in leading them to the Class 3A state title in 2021. 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. He was picked No. Wiley then played more than a decade of professional basketball, including seven seasons in the NBA. Players and teams so great they took up permanent space in the memories of basketball fans. Samuel Pierce played for Vanderbilt and became the first Black player in SEC history. Detroit Southwestern High lost in the state championship game seven of the previous eight seasons before 1990. 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. Jayson Tatum wasn't the first player out of Chaminade Prep to go No. Although none of the players off the 2002-03 Woodlawn High squad made it to the NBA, one of them did have a lengthy career in the pros. Woodlawn went a staggering 39-0 unheard of scheduling even for the last 20 years and finished No. That year, Chamberlain scored over 70 points twice and 90 points once. 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. He also played seven years in the NBA. Joseph Young was a second-round pick in the 2015 NBA draft and played three seasons for the Indiana Pacers. Being in the stands for a Flint Northwestern High basketball game in the mid-1980s must have been a treat. Malik Sealy had one of the more amazing backstories of anyone in basketball. Key players: Ellis Johnson, Gene Strother. The Poets went wire-to-wire as the No. Mike Welton, Billings West - Welton was a three-time all-state selection at West and is still the Golden Bears' all-time leading scorer. The last state championships for Raytown South came with the undefeated team in 1989-90, but legendary head coach Bud Lathrop coached until 2006. It's not recency bias to just believe what your eyes tell you. Since 1986, Sentinel has lost in the state championship game three times, in 1987, 1992 and 2008. MaxPreps High School Basketball Rankings. Fields' basketball career never reached the heights he'd once hoped. 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. 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. 10) Fuzzy Vandiver, Franklin. Since James went No. He was a Ukrainian Super League All-Star in 2009, NBA D-League All-Star in 2013 and NBL All-Star for the New Zealand Breakers in 2013. Spector went on to play for Villanova, then became the first player ever signed by the Boston Celtics. Center Kentrell Gransberry became an All-Big East pick at the University of South Florida. It's routinely viewed as one of the worst high schools in the country when it comes to academics. Former Nathan Hale High star Michael Porter Jr. has become one of the most befuddling NBA prospects to come along in some time. 1. Key players: Danny Ainge, Rodger Bates, Mike O'Neill, Greg Niko, Steve Moulton, Greg Jacobson. Longtime rival Dunbar High. Key players: Adrian Dantley, Kenny Carr, Billy Langloh, Eric Coard, Ron Satterthwaite, Buzzy O'Connell, Vern Allen. Tatum went on to star for Duke, where he played one season before he was the No. 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. 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. With five players ranked in the 2023 ESPN 100 and four more ranked in the 2024 . Two starters for North were declared ineligible the day before the state championship game, but he put the team on his back and beat Staples-Motley High 54-52 for the title. 3 overall, but he refused to play for Utah and was traded to the Atlanta Hawks a few months later. 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. 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 was briefly suspended this year over an investigation into improper benefits, then reinstated, and the Irish not only won their third state title in four years but also took down national powers Mater Dei, Westchester and Oak Hill. View More Preseason 2022-23 FAB 50: Top 15 Teams! Parker was an All-American in his one season at Duke and the No. It lies mainly on the right bank of the Rhine River, 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Cologne. Bradley averaged 19 points per game, and playing all over the country in tournaments, he brought home MVP at every single one. Hoover played at Villanova and was the No. The two Parade All-Americans coached by Lafayette Norwood saw little in the way of competition throughout the year. He went from Willowridge to being a Division I head coach at Texas Southern, where he coached for six years before going back to the high school ranks. 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. Langdon was a McDonald's All-American, a three-time All-American at Duke and played three seasons in the NBA. Even at that, no one outshined Stackhouse. On the 50th anniversary of our All-Metro Team, White was selected to 50 years: The All-time all-metro . 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. Lone Peak's only loss that season came to Florida powerhouse Montverde Academy, but the team's record included six wins over teams that were nationally ranked during the season. Banks scored 31 points for the Speedboys in a 72-52 win over Father Judge High in the city championship game. Key players: Paul Silas, Joe Ellis, Aaron Pointer. He also reportedly spent time playing professionally under an alias during this time. New Teacher jobs added daily. Larry Bird from the 1977 "Sycamore" student yearbook photo sourced from Wikimedia commons. Michigan has had a lot of great teams several made this list but a young Rice was truly the show here. The 1977 state champions were inducted into the Lansing Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. 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. Key players: Rasheed Wallace, Rondell Turner, Jamahal Redmond, Lynard Stewart, Reds Smith, Terrel Stokes, Alem Watson. No. Another starter, Edward "Monk" Malloy, became president at the University of Notre Dame. Oak Hill Academy didn't stop winning national titles after that first one in 1993. 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. One school, one spot. 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). In the famous single-class system of high school basketball in Indiana, only two teams ever won three consecutive state titles Franklin High from 1920 to 1922 and Marion High from 1985 to 1987. Trgovich won two national titles at UCLA, Stoddard won a national championship at North Carolina State and pitched 11 seasons in the majors. 1 or No. 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. 1 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2007 NBA draft and subsequently became one of the biggest busts in professional sports history. 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. Scott was probably a player ahead of his time. Some of those teams were even better than that. How'd the Purple Knights do it? 22 Centerville and . 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. During his NBA career, Bridgeman began buying up fast-food restaurants and started a catering/events service an empire that eventually made him one of the richest men in America, with an estimated $600 million fortune. Was Douglas, who starred at Syracuse and played 13 seasons in the NBA, the greatest player to ever come out of Spingarn? The oldest team on this list gets the most basketball-crazy state in the country's foot in the door with Kentucky, where Ashland High School went undefeated and won a national championship in 1928. It's a pretty amazing stat line that was wasted on some pretty awful teams. Key players: Jay Humphries, Ralph Jackson. They've won five state championships since he graduated, in 1995, 1999, 2000, 2013 and 2021 and finished as state runner-up four more times. It went by Negro High School until 1939, when it was named after its first principal, A.H. Parker. 33 Lower Merion jersey now hangs above a door in the gym. Articles Blogs East Exclusive FAB 50 High School High School Videos Midwest Profiles South Uncategorized West. 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. Few high school athletes anywhere, ever, can compare with Danny Ainge at North Eugene High School. Key players: Jeff Malone, Terry Fair, Bobby Jones, Michael Hunt, Hook McCarthy, Eric Hightower. Key players: Kobe Bryant, Guy Stewart, Dave Rosenberg, Evan Monsky. Key players: Mo Bamba, Cam Reddish, Brandon Randolph, Anthony Ochefu, Jake Forrester. Yates won its second straight Class 4A state title in Texas and won games by an average of 40 points on the way to a 32-0 record. Oh, did we mention 10-year NBA veteran and first-round draft pick Jeff Grayer was also on the roster? 1 recruit in the nation before heading off to Duke University. 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. Key players: Harrison Barnes, Doug McDermott. Lucas, at 6-foot-8, was unlike any player anyone had ever seen. Key players: Derrick Rose, Bryant Orange, Timothy Flowers, Kevin Johnson. Key players: O.J. The history of Parker High School encompasses much more than what happens on a basketball court. 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. 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. But the state tournament was canceled because of the pandemic. Key players: Malik Sealy, Brian Reese, Adrian Autry. First things first. Duckworth was selected as an NBA All-Star twice and named NBA Most Improved Player in 1988. Monta Ellis ended up having a 12-year career and averaged 17.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. The undefeated Arkansas state championship team reached as high as No. No team from Flint Northwestern has won a state championship in any sport since the girls basketball team won it all in 1993. 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. All-Time Top 50 Men's List. Rose and Simeon won titles in 2006 and 2007. 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. Woodlawn star RoShon Jacobs went on to become an All-Southland pick in both football and basketball for Louisiana-Monroe. Without a question of a doubt, the 2019-20 Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.) team is one of the greatest of all-time. His father was a bodyguard for social activist Malcolm X, also known as Malik Shabazz, and named his son after him. While Kevin Garnett was the star, Ronnie Fields also was very talented. First mentioned in 1159, Dsseldorf ("Village on the Dssel," a small tributary of the Rhine) was chartered in 1288 by the count of . 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. 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 . James was hired as the head coach at Austin Peay in April 2021. Chris Bosh played one season at Georgia Tech before he was the No. 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. Can you imagine the sheer terror of trying to guard "The Human Highlight Film" in high school? And they went 4-20. The team was led by Parade All-American Howard Porter and future MLB pitcher Hugh Yancy. This was a two-year stretch under head coach Michael Peck in which Findlay went 61-1. Larry Bird played professionally in the National Basketball Association from 1979 to 1992. Paul Harris ended up being a case of "what if." In all, Lone Peak has won eight state championships in boys basketball and all since 2001. Matching 6-foot-10 posts and future NBA players John Thompson and Tom Hooverwould have been just fine. 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. You can make an argument for Cage being the greatest high school basketball player in Arkansas history. 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. 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. Power Memorial Academy continued to pump out elite NBA talent long after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar graduated. 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. Key players: Wilt Chamberlain, Vince Miller, Marty Hughes, Howard Johnson, Dave Shapiro. Pointer wasn't even the most famous person in his family. Use the "Find my Team" feature to quickly locate your team! Ainge also had success as an NBA executive, putting together the team that won an NBA championship for the Boston Celtics in 2008, when he was named NBA Executive of the Year. Find out where your teams stands. They reportedly had 6,000 season-ticket holders. 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. Check out the top 35 white basketball players of all time. He was either the No. Head coach Kevin Boyle was named USA Today National Coach of the Year in 2007 as well. Thompson went on to star at Providence. 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. Courtney won another state title at George Bush High School in 2010. Tragically, Sealy died in a car accident in 2000, at 30 years old. 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). East Anchorage wasn't done winning state championships when Trajan Langdon walked out the door. Following Niagara Falls High's magical season in 2004-05, he was arrested on drug and domestic violence charges and spent 13 days in jail. 2 overall pick by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2014 NBA draft. Key players: Billy Owens, Michael Coleman. 3 in the national rankings and won a Class 4A state championship. Markus Black, the point guard on the 2006 state championship team, became Booker's head coach in 2016 and coached there until 2021, when he was hired to join Eric Musselman's staff at the University of Arkansas. Findlay Prep featured a roster with three future NBA players Avery Bradley, Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph. The Patrick School did everything it could to win a national championship in 2007 but came up just short at No. The Baltimore Sun said that the Calvert Hall 1981-82 team was the greatest in BCL history on the league's 50th anniversary. High school assists were not a stat they were recording yet. 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. 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. 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. Leverage your professional network, and get hired. There has been a lot of great high school basketball teams. 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