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. He has a good shot at becoming the first third-generation player in NBA history. Mayo was one of the most highly sought basketball recruits of all time. The 1989-90 Raytown South boys basketball team went undefeated and won a state championship despite losing its best player before the season started, when star center and University of Kansas signee Chris Lindley had his foot severed in a train accident. O.J. 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. 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. St. Augustine star Eugene Edgerson wasn't done winning national championships. 1. . Lanier finished ranked No. 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. 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. Lazare played professional basketball for eight years. In fact, a Flint Hill grad turned in arguably the greatest performance in ACC Tournament history. Kennedy strolled to a . Ewing won a national championship with Georgetown in 1984 and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008. 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 played both baseball and basketball at the University of Arizona, where he was a three-year letter-winner. John Thompson became much more well-known as one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all time. In 2013, Hancock was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player after he led Louisville to the national championship. They reportedly had 6,000 season-ticket holders. Duckworth was selected as an NBA All-Star twice and named NBA Most Improved Player in 1988. Wootten died in January 2020, at 88 years old. 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. 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. Tatum went on to star for Duke, where he played one season before he was the No. We went . 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. Few have dominated on every level like the 7-foot-2 center did. 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. 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. Keatts, Howard and West were all inducted into the Hargrave Hall of Fame in 2011. 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. 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. They also became the first Louisiana team to win back-to-back state championships in the large school division. 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. 6 overall in the 2016 NFL draft. That's a truly remarkable feat for coach Greg Wise's squad. 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. Without a question of a doubt, the 2019-20 Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.) team is one of the greatest of all-time. 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. 10 overall pick in 2018. Jevon Crudup was the straw that stirred the drink for Raytown South, which finished No. There has been a lot of great high school basketball teams. He attended the University of Pittsburgh but never played there. At the heart of Bloomington South's program was its ever-present head coach, J.R. Holmes. 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. Larry Bird played professionally in the National Basketball Association from 1979 to 1992. The template for how tough a high school basketball league can be has to include the Baltimore Catholic League. 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. And they went 4-20. This was the first of three consecutive state championships for Minneapolis North High, but the only one of the three to go undefeated. Future NBA superstar and Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was the first freshman to start on the varsity for Lower Merion High. East Anchorage wasn't done winning state championships when Trajan Langdon walked out the door. Key players: Paul Silas, Joe Ellis, Aaron Pointer. Robertson teamed with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to the 1971 NBA 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. 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. 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. Mayo, Patrick Patterson, Jamaal Williams, Michael Taylor. 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. Ainge also was a two-time All-State quarterback and one of the top high school baseball players in the nation as well. Top 50 Women's List. 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. Ranking Explanation . 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. In 2021, Eck returned to coaching high school basketball and back in Wichita at Kapaun Mount Carmel High School. 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. Some 30 years after the first Wichita Heights dynasty, the school would experience another basketball renaissance thanks to a once-in-a-lifetime recruit with 6-foot-8 forward Perry Ellis. That was just part of an 83-game winning streak for Kashmere, which was led by future Texas A&M star Karl Godine and Jarvis Williams. Led by back-to-back Utah Mr. Basketball picks Nick Emery and T.J. Haws, they won the Class 6A state championship. But the state tournament was canceled because of the pandemic. The Utah Jazz selected Wilkins No. 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. Larry Bird. He was either the No. 31-50 on October 24, continued with teams No. 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. Dantley, 6-foot-6, and Carr, 6-7, absolutely terrorized opponents, and Wooten was a master at getting the most out of them. 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. Key players: Jerry Lucas, Larry Emrick, Tom Sizer. Chet Holmgren swept every major national player of the year award at Minnehaha in leading them to the Class 3A state title in 2021. First things first. East Chicago Washington High averaged 95 points per game during the 1970-71 season, led by a bevy of future pro and college talent. 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. Monta Ellis ended up having a 12-year career and averaged 17.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. 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. 1 or No. USbasket Top 50 U.S. High School Teams Ranking Last Updated: 1/19/2023 The RANKING is carefully calculated based on teams' games and league/conference strength. Pray for a rainout? Bradley averaged 19 points per game, and playing all over the country in tournaments, he brought home MVP at every single one. It was Robinson who hit the game-winning free throws against Seton Hall in overtime of the championship game. His father was a bodyguard for social activist Malcolm X, also known as Malik Shabazz, and named his son after him. One year later, head coach Kevin Boyle left TPS to become the new coach at Montverde Academy. No.1 rankings: 134, most of any program. Parker High opened in 1900 to serve African-American students. 1 and No. Harris transferred to Notre Dame Prep in Massachusetts for his final high school season and played for Syracuse for three seasons before declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft and going unselected. Key players: Tyson Chandler, Sherman Gay, Marcus Moore, Ellis Moore, Ellis Myles. Southwest Macon won a state championship in 1978 and followed that with a mythical national title in 1979 led by Terry Fair and Jeff Malone. Bobby Hurley went on to win two national championships at Duke in 1991 and 1992. 1 or No. 7 overall recruit in the country. Rose was the real prize, though. He was picked No. 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. 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. They went 75-1 over their final two seasons together at Willowridge. Montverde Academy of Florida is the . No story about Camden High basketball is complete with mentioning the Wagner family three generations of elite basketball talent to walk the halls. First appearance: March 8, 1949. Findlay Prep was the most basketball factory school of all the basketball factory schools who ever existed and played on a high level. Dsseldorf, city, capital of North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. Key players: Jayson Tatum, Tyler Cook, William Gladson. St. Nicholas' only loss came to New Jersey powerhouse St. Anthony's in a tournament in Hawaii. A good shot at becoming the first of three consecutive state championships for North. S List truly remarkable feat for coach Greg Wise 's squad he played baseball. 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