This was a two-year stretch under head coach Michael Peck in which Findlay went 61-1. 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. UCLA (957 Points) Total appearances: 60.17% of all polls. [jwplayer lpqhoLGb-BmKM743H] It was another hardware-filled week of high school basketball around the nation, as No. The world was introduced to LeBron James in 2001-02 via a Sports Illustrated cover featuring the St. Vincent-St. Mary High star, and ESPN made the deft decision to start broadcasting his games on national television. 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. 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. 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. 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. Key players: Jerry Stackhouse, Jeff McGinnis, Mark Blount, Makhtar Ndiaye, Alex Sanders, Curtis Staples, Jermaine Smith, Mike Brittain, Tavares Johnson. All-Time Top 50 Men's List. We began with teams No. Key players: Tyson Chandler, Sherman Gay, Marcus Moore, Ellis Moore, Ellis Myles. They were featured on "Dateline," "Regis and Kathie Lee," and in People Magazine and ended the season on a 50-game winning streak. 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. 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. Compton High won back-to-back CIF state championships and back-to-back national championships in 1968 and 1969 as part of a 66-game winning streak over the final two seasons. 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. Key players: Maurice Robertson, Eugene Edgerson. 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. 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. 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. 33 Lower Merion jersey now hangs above a door in the gym. A Findlay Prep player was actually taken No. Kashmere High went 46-0 in 1974-75 in an era where states weren't quite as stringent on scheduling limits. Thompson, who was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame and the College Basketball Hall of Fame, died in August 2020 at 78 years old. 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. 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. You're not reading that wrong. Guiding them from the sideline was head coach Ronnie Courtney, who was named 2001 USA Today Coach of the Year and won back-to-back state titles with the duo in 2000 and 2001. "The thing I like the most is we have a strong locker room," says Wawasee head coach Jon Everingham. In all, Lone Peak has won eight state championships in boys basketball and all since 2001. Three of SLAM's college hoop junkies compiled their personal lists using a mental simulation of "Who dominated their respective season the most . This was the first of three consecutive state championships for Minneapolis North High, but the only one of the three to go undefeated. Ellis was a three-time All-Big 12 selection and two-time All-American at the University of Kansas. By 1946, enrollment at Parker grew to 3,761 students, making it the largest exclusively African-American high school in the world. Key players: Nick Emery, T.J. Haws, Erik Mika, Talon Shumway, Connor Toolson. 20 St. Paul VI, No. Four years later, he led Michigan to the 1989 NCAA championship. Key players: Oscar Robertson, Albert Maxey, Bill Brown, Stan Patton, Edgar Searcy. High school assists were not a stat they were recording yet. 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. 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 team later became enveloped in scandal when head coach Russell Otis was charged with sexually molesting one of his former players and stealing money from the team's Nike sponsorship. Ranking Explanation . The team featuring the greatest high school basketball player in Michigan history needed to be on the list. Former Hargrave head coach Kevin Keatts was hired as an assistant coach at Louisville around the same time. 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. 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. Williams, the Big Ten Player of the Year in 2001, was a first-round draft pick by the New York Knicks in 2002 but lasted just three seasons in the NBA. 3 overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft. 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. SCNext Top 25: Ranking the best high school boys' basketball teams in the 2022-23 season. Wichita South head coach Steve Eck made the move to college basketball after the 1995-96 season and his last state championship at South. The son of former University of Houston standout Michael Young, from the Phi Slama Jama years, Joseph Young signed with Providence before he decided to play for the University of Houston, then eventually landed at the University of Oregon, where he was the 2015 Pac-12 Player of the Year. Wichita South High is the second team from Wichita, Kansas, to make the list and was coached by legendary high school coach Steve Eck, who won six Class 6A state championships with the Titans from 1986 to 1996. He is a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. Tatum went on to star for Duke, where he played one season before he was the No. 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). Willie Weeks, Wolf Point - Weeks helped lead the Wolves to the 1968 Big 32 state championship . 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. Key players: Duane Ferrell, James "Pop" Tubman, Marc Wilson, Paul Edwards, Pat Sass. Few high school athletes anywhere, ever, can compare with Danny Ainge at North Eugene High School. Westtown School's 2016-17 team was one of the more dominant high school basketball teams of all time. It wasn't just Cunningham who stood out for Montverde. They also became the first Louisiana team to win back-to-back state championships in the large school division. In front of 11,522 fans, future Illinois star Frank Williams guided them to the 65-62 win. Langdon was the one who paved the way for the other two as a three-time Alaska Gatorade Player of the Year and winner of three consecutive Class 4A state championships. Few have dominated on every level like the 7-foot-2 center did. Key players: Harrison Barnes, Doug McDermott. First things first. . Some of those teams were even better than that. 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. 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. 10) Fuzzy Vandiver, Franklin. Any list of greatest high school basketball coaches needs to include Stu Vetter, who led two different schools to national titles Flint Hill Academy in 1987 and St. John's Catholic Prep in 1988. Even as a high schooler, Tatum was developing a reputation for lighting up the scorebook. 2 in all the major national polls. He would stand during the anthem but looked downward and recited Islamic prayer. Morgan Wootten coached DeMatha Catholic for 46 years, leading the school to five national championships and 33 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference titles. Sentinel didn't win a state championship for almost a decade, before going back-to-back in 1972 and 1973. 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. 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. Monta Ellis ended up having a 12-year career and averaged 17.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. Wootten died in January 2020, at 88 years old. 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. Key players:Gene Banks, Joe Garrett, Clarence Tillman, Darryl Warwick, Mike Powell, Vincent Ross, Tyrell Biggs, Pee Wee Thomas. Key players: Quinn Buckner, Mike Bonczyk, Boyd Batts. The NJSIAA hired a former cop to secretly videotape the team working out. Key players: Karl Godine, Jarvis Williams, Carl Byrd, Madison Lane. Every state has its high school basketball legends. 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. Hunt was one of the standouts on Jerry Tarkanian's famous UNLV teams of the late 1980s and early 1990s and was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player in 1990 after he led the Runnin' Rebels to an NCAA championship. The school ultimately closed its doors in 2013. 2 in the final USA Today Super 25 Poll. 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. 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. Key players: Patrick Ewing, Kevin Headley. 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. 1 or No. I stand in awe of him.". 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. Quincy was never more dominant than when they hit the state tournament, winning four games by an average of almost 30 points. Montverde Academy of Florida is the . Key players: Reggie Williams, Muggsy Bogues, Keith James, Mike Brown, Tim Dawson, Reggie Lewis. They repeated in 1994 and have won nine total national championships. MaxPreps said Lone Peak High was the top public school team in the country in 2012-13. 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. 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. In three seasons with Lucas, the Middies went 76-1. They all played on the greatest high school basketball team in their respective state's history, according to look back at legendary squads from all 50 states. Ronnie Courtney's career path is something to behold. 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. Key players: Adrian Dantley, Kenny Carr, Billy Langloh, Eric Coard, Ron Satterthwaite, Buzzy O'Connell, Vern Allen. Scott was probably a player ahead of his time. 11 overall pick in 2014. 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. 3 overall by the Washington Wizards in the 2012 NBA Draft. The Utah Jazz selected Wilkins No. You can still watch Long Beach Poly's thrilling 45-44 win over Mater Dei in the CIF championship game and see for yourself why this team made the list. 13 overall in the NBA draft several months later. Key players: Ellis Johnson, Gene Strother. 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. 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. Muhammad led the Gaels to another state championship as a senior in 2012. That's a truly remarkable feat for coach Greg Wise's squad. Lazare played professional basketball for eight years. Larry Bird. Chris Bosh played one season at Georgia Tech before he was the No. They ended the year on a 58-game winning streak and defeated state champions from three different states, including national 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. Yates set a national record by scoring at least 100 points in 15 consecutive games. 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. Dajuan Wagner's son, D.J. Montverde Academy (Florida) has won Geico Nationals in back-to-back years and remains No. St. Vincent-St. Mary didn't stop winning state championships after LeBron James embarked on one of the greatest NBA careers of all time. Two players off the team ended up playing in the NBA Jay Humphries and Ralph Jackson. 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. 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. 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. Being in the stands for a Flint Northwestern High basketball game in the mid-1980s must have been a treat. 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. Key players: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Leonard Bennett, Dwayne Davis. 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. 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). His father was a bodyguard for social activist Malcolm X, also known as Malik Shabazz, and named his son after him. 1 overall in the 2003 NBA draft, SVSM has won five more state titles, in 20009, 2011, 2017, 2018 and 2021. Latimore and Chino Hills responded by winning back-to-back state championships in 2018 and 2019. 10 overall pick in the 1990 NBA draft and played five seasons in the NBA. Findlay Prep was the most basketball factory school of all the basketball factory schools who ever existed and played on a high level. At the heart of Bloomington South's program was its ever-present head coach, J.R. Holmes. Key players: Billy Owens, Michael Coleman. While Kevin Garnett was the star, Ronnie Fields also was very talented. Harris spent the next 11 seasons playing basketball professionally all over the world just not in the NBA. Were even better than that off the team featuring the greatest NBA of! 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