7 Calvary Christian, No. The history of Parker High School encompasses much more than what happens on a basketball court. Power Memorial Academy continued to pump out elite NBA talent long after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar graduated. 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. 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. Oh, did we mention 10-year NBA veteran and first-round draft pick Jeff Grayer was also on the roster? 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. His NBA career technically stretched over seven seasons, but he only played in three because of injuries. 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. 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. He's also still in the NBA. Minnehaha won its third state championship in four years in 2021. The Hargrave Military Academy 1998-99 basketball team was an absolute problem. Thornridge High never won another state title in boys basketball after Quinn Buckner led them to back-to-back titles in 1971 and 1972. Hall of Famers Elgin Baylor and Dave Bing might have something to say about that. Key players: Quinn Buckner, Mike Bonczyk, Boyd Batts. Teammates Scottie Barnes and Moses Moody were also lottery picks in 2021. Jayson Tatum wasn't the first player out of Chaminade Prep to go No. 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. He was listed as a center but was by far the team's best outside shooter. Robertson teamed with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to the 1971 NBA championship. James was hired as the head coach at Austin Peay in April 2021. Jevon Crudup was the straw that stirred the drink for Raytown South, which finished No. 1! Five years after Ewing left Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (usually just called Rindge), another future NCAA champion led the team to a state title. 9 Camden, No. Jabari Parker led Simeon to four consecutive Class 4A state championships from 2010 to 2013, becoming the No. 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. Billy Owens never quite lived up to his potential on the college and pro levels. Attucks went 62-1 over the last two seasons with Robertson as its star. 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. 6 overall in the 2016 NFL draft. beat Peoria Manual 68-61 in the state championship game, jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. Montana isn't known for being a hotbed of high school sports, but the team Missoula Sentinel High put together in 1963-64 was impossible to keep off the list. Key players: Rasheed Wallace, Rondell Turner, Jamahal Redmond, Lynard Stewart, Reds Smith, Terrel Stokes, Alem Watson. They lost one game all year, but it was just the second game of the season. 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. Peoria Manual High teammates Marcus Griffin, Sergio McClain and Frank Griffin were reunited at the University of Illinois, where they played for head coach Bill Self and led the Illini to an Elite Eight appearance in 2001. The Patrick School did everything it could to win a national championship in 2007 but came up just short at No. 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. Milt Wagner's son, Dajuan Wagner, scored 100 points in a single game in 2001 against Camden County Tech and was the No. Chris Bosh played one season at Georgia Tech before he was the No. Monta Ellis ended up having a 12-year career and averaged 17.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. He's the older brother of Ruth, Bonnie, Anita and Joan Pointer. Holmes broke the Indiana high school career wins record with his 807th win in 2019 but didn't stop there. 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). Some of those teams were even better than that. 3 scorer in state history. 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. How popular were the Marion High teams in this stretch? Mayo had 41 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists in the 2007 Class AAA state championship game a 103-61 win over South Charleston. Simply breathtaking. 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. 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. Scott led Flint Hill to a 46-0 record over his final two seasons and was named the Naismith National Player of the Year as a senior when he averaged 24 points and 11 rebounds and, more importantly, was able to play all five positions. While Kevin Garnett was the star, Ronnie Fields also was very talented. 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. 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. Former Hargrave star Luke Hancock transferred to the University of Louisville in 2011 after playing his first two seasons at George Mason. 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. Key players: Oscar Robertson, Albert Maxey, Bill Brown, Stan Patton, Edgar Searcy. The 7-footer won two state basketball championships (1978 and 1979) while also earning Parade All-American honors. Led by 2021 NBA draft No. Key players: Ellis Johnson, Gene Strother. Three years later, Rison led Michigan State to the Rose Bowl. Quinn Buckner was a winner wherever he went, starting with his time at Dolton Thornridge High, where he was a Parade All-American and led the team to a 33-0 record in 1971-72, state title and mythical national title. The story of Kashmere High through the present day has been one of struggle. 1 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2007 NBA draft and subsequently became one of the biggest busts in professional sports history. 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. He played one season at USC before he was the No. He signed with the University of Illinois but never played after the school was put on probation. 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. For all of Mo Bamba's basketball accomplishments, they now pale in comparison to a hit song named "Mo Bamba" written and performed by one of Bamba's childhood friends, rapper Sheck Wes. On the 50th anniversary of our All-Metro Team, White was selected to 50 years: The All-time all-metro . 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 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. 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. Key players: Lonzo Ball, LiAngelo Ball, LaMelo Ball, Onyeka Okongwu, Eli Soctt, Andre Ball, Cameron Shelton. You could take the frontcourt from Archbishop John Carroll High's 1958-59 squad and line it up against any high school team in the country today and come out on top. In 1995, El-Amin was pulling off similar feats. 2 overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft after spending one season at Gonzaga. Booker went 33-1 and won the FIAA state title consisting of only segregated, all-Black schools. Find out where your teams stands. 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. No. 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. In an All-Star game against Kentucky he had 53 points and 30 rebounds. Valentine played 10 seasons in the NBA, while Carr played 16 seasons. 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. What happened next with former Washington High star Junior Bridgeman is one of the greatest (mostly) unknown stories in basketball history. 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. Wooten finished his career with a 1,274-192 overall record and in 2000 became the first exclusively high school basketball coach inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. But it's another Overbrook product whose fictional persona (with the same name) is arguably one of the most famous fictitious basketball players in history. 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. St. Nicholas' only loss came to New Jersey powerhouse St. Anthony's in a tournament in Hawaii. The star player on the 2016 state championship team was all-state guard Tyler Johnson, who became a two-time All-Big Ten wide receiver at the University of Minnesota and won a Super Bowl as a rookie with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2021. Key players: Jamie Brandon, Damian Porter, Fred Sculfield, Anton Little, Rashard Griffith. 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. Key players: Billy Owens, Michael Coleman. "We've still got a heartbeat . 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. 33 Lower Merion jersey now hangs above a door in the gym. 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. Bradley averaged 19 points per game, and playing all over the country in tournaments, he brought home MVP at every single one. He was picked No. 1 overall in the 2003 NBA draft, SVSM has won five more state titles, in 20009, 2011, 2017, 2018 and 2021. Matching 6-foot-10 posts and future NBA players John Thompson and Tom Hooverwould have been just fine. 4 overall in the 2007 NBA draft. 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. If only they would've gotten to play Dunbar High, would it have been the greatest game ever? 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. 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. Without a question of a doubt, the 2019-20 Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.) team is one of the greatest of all-time. The steady flow of NBA talent didn't stop, either. But the state tournament was canceled because of the pandemic. 3 overall, but he refused to play for Utah and was traded to the Atlanta Hawks a few months later. Check out the top 35 white basketball players of all time. The Poets went wire-to-wire as the No. Key players: Cade Cunningham, Scottie Barnes, Moses Moody, Caleb Houstan, Day'Ron Sharpe. Placed under the control of Mastery Charter Schools in 2011, Simon Gratz changed its name to Simon Gratz High School Mastery Charter and was taken off the PDSL list in 2012. 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. First mentioned in 1159, Dsseldorf ("Village on the Dssel," a small tributary of the Rhine) was chartered in 1288 by the count of . Key players: Howard Porter, Hugh Yancy, Arthur Johnson. He was at his most dominant as a junior in 1956-57, when he scored 45 points in the state semifinals. 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. 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. Today's top 17 Teacher jobs in Dsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. 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. 3 overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft. Malik Sealy had one of the more amazing backstories of anyone in basketball. Key players: John Thompson, Edward Malloy, Tom Hooper, George Leftwich. Bloomington South is a great example of a team that didn't necessarily need to overpower teams with size to win a lot of games, going undefeated and winning a coveted Indiana state championship. 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. 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). Yates set a national record by scoring at least 100 points in 15 consecutive games. I stand in awe of him.". The 1977 state champions were inducted into the Lansing Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. Chet Holmgren swept every major national player of the year award at Minnehaha in leading them to the Class 3A state title in 2021. 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. 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. mythical national champions by USA Today. Ainge also was a two-time All-State quarterback and one of the top high school baseball players in the nation as well. It's routinely viewed as one of the worst high schools in the country when it comes to academics. 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. St. Nicholas went from the Bronx to the top of the nation in high school basketball thanks to 6-foot-7 star forward and future NBA player Malik Sealy, who averaged 21.4 points and 10.4 rebounds while shooting 65.4 percent from the field. 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. Willie Weeks, Wolf Point - Weeks helped lead the Wolves to the 1968 Big 32 state championship . John Thompson became much more well-known as one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all time. Mayo, Patrick Patterson, Jamaal Williams, Michael Taylor. 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. MaxPreps High School Basketball Rankings. Key players: Jalen Rose, Vashon Leonard, Howard Eisley, Garland Mance, Elton Carter. 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. 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. Bobby Hurley went on to win two national championships at Duke in 1991 and 1992. Key players: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Leonard Bennett, Dwayne Davis. You can lose early, but you can't lose late. Montverde Academy (Florida) has won Geico Nationals in back-to-back years and remains No. . The template for how tough a high school basketball league can be has to include the Baltimore Catholic League. The 6-foot-10 forward has the skills of a guard and has shown he can compete with the league's best if not for his proclivity for injuries. 13 Gerald Brown, Phoenix Carl Hayden, 1993. 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. 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. Not by a long shot. Thompson went on to star at Providence. Head coach Kevin Boyle was named USA Today National Coach of the Year in 2007 as well. Parker High opened in 1900 to serve African-American students. 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. He was known for his long-distance shooting ability in an era with no 3-point line. 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. 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. Ashland Blazer High won three more state championships after the legendary 1928 title team in 1933, 1934 and 1961. Key players: Michael Payne, Bruce Douglas. Marion's star backcourt of Jay Edwards and Lyndon Jones both played for Indiana University, where Edwards was the Big Ten Player of the Year in 1989. Future Pitt All-American DeJuan Blair and St. John's . 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. Larry Bird played professionally in the National Basketball Association from 1979 to 1992. His 1992-93 team had a gaggle of future Division I talent in forward and Class 6A Player of the Year B.J. 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. The school ultimately closed its doors in 2013. Strong, powerful point guard who led the Falcons to a state championship. The third high school player ever taken as the top overall pick in the NBA draft (Kwame Brown was the first in 2001), Howard quickly developed into one of the NBA's premier centers. But not the title. He cashed out a staggering $103.2 million in career earnings. 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. 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