He also reportedly spent time playing professionally under an alias during this 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. It's not recency bias to just believe what your eyes tell you. 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. Earl Tyson, Dunbar, 6-0, Sr. FOURTH TEAM 26. Even if you didnt have Dwight on that team, it would have been an incredible team. Brentsville; Chatney Howard, Southern; Sulayman Joof, Whitman; Damion Camden High guard Milt Wagner went on to lead Louisville to three Final Fours and the 1986 NCAA championships before winning an NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1988. Greg Williams, W.T. In 1993, Livingston was the Naismith and Gatorade player of the year and tied with Rasheed Wallace for Parade player of the year. They got some momentum going and got us out of our rhythm. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf became one of the most polarizing players in NBA history in 1996 when he refused to stand for the national anthem before games because he viewed the flag as a "symbol of oppression" and pointed out the long history of tyranny in the U.S. 2 overall pick by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2014 NBA draft. 1948 Duke University High Point 44 Wilson 41 1949 Duke University R. J. Reynolds 38 High Point 23 1950 Duke University High Point 63 Durham 48 CLASSIFICATION NAME WAS CHANGED TO AAA IN 1951 1951 Duke University Wilmington New Hanover 65 Raleigh 50 1952 Duke University Raleigh 51 Greensboro 49 2 overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft after spending one season at Gonzaga. were 24-2 and won IAC title. 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. PLAYER OF THE YEAR Louis Bullock Guard Laurel Baptist Senior 6-3 Repeat All-Met. 10 overall pick in the 1990 NBA draft and played five seasons in the NBA. How popular were the Marion High teams in this stretch? 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. 95. Wilt Chamberlain wasn't the only NBA player to come out of Overbrook High. It's routinely viewed as one of the worst high schools in the country when it comes to academics. 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). He was listed as a center but was by far the team's best outside shooter. Dunbar. Joe Covarrubias, Huntington Park--Covarrubias developed into one of the areas top point guards and was selected to the City 4-A team. But he can shoot well from 20 feet and in. Key players:Jay Edwards, Lyndon Jones,Nikki Mallory, Lefon Bowens, Jay Teagle, Eric Ewer, Daric Keys, Kyle Persinge. Had 20 career triple-doubles. 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. rebounds, 3 blocked shots, 2 steals and 2 assists. You can make an argument for Cage being the greatest high school basketball player in Arkansas history. USA Today High School Basketball Player of the Year. When teams from New York end up on the national stage, it's usually coming out of New York City. Probably one of the more underrated teams on this list (if you can even say that), Ames High was led by a pair of future NBA first-round draft picks in Harrison Barnes and Doug McDermott. Guard The 6-1 guard made the City 4-A team and is being recruited by Cal State Sacramento and Humboldt State, a Division II school. 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. Greg Jones, Cardozo, 26.8 Note: Where applicable, a player's high school of graduation is listed. 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. What were teams supposed to do when they faced off against Hargrave, led by current North Carolina State head coach Kevin Keatts and future NBA stars Josh Howard and David West? Out of the trio of professional athletes on Bishop Gorman's star-studded team, Ronnie Stanley has been the most successful on the next level. Holmgren is projected as either the 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. South Lakes 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. The 5-9 senior, who averaged double figures in points and assists, is considered one of the top 15 point guards in the nation and was also selected to the City 4-A team. Guy I work with was arguing that Jason Kidd was a higher ranked recruit than Randy Livingston. Bradley averaged 19 points per game, and playing all over the country in tournaments, he brought home MVP at every single one. Woodson, 22.0, © Copyright 1993 The Washington Post Company. No Results for 1993 Basketball; . The current Little Hawk squad has been resilient this season, bouncing back from the season-opening loss to win seven games in a row, including a 14-7 victory over then-undefeated West High on Oct 11. The Associated Press provides rankings for high school football and boys and girls basketball. Hoover played at Villanova and was the No. 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. Muscatine is 5-4 and features senior running back Austin Moss, who rushed for 814 yards and scored 12 touchdowns in the regular season. 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. 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. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting. Key players: Tyson Chandler, Sherman Gay, Marcus Moore, Ellis Moore, Ellis Myles. MP Stats for iPad Stat keeping for basketball teams. The only player ever to start four seasons under Coach Bill Thomason, Bailey holds most of the schools scoring and rebounding records. Selections were based on a poll of area coaches and Times sportswriters. 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. The NJSIAA hired a former cop to secretly videotape the team working out. Daniel Deng, Wash. Int, 22.9 Patrick Ewing swept National Player of the Year awards at Cambridge Ridge and Latin School in 1981 after leading his school to a third consecutive state championship. It was part of the Parade All-American series that originated with boys basketball before branching to other sports. Milt Wagner's son, Dajuan Wagner, scored 100 points in a single game in 2001 against Camden County Tech and was the No. Jevon Crudup was the straw that stirred the drink for Raytown South, which finished No. 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. Inglewood High took down Long Beach Poly for the 1980 CIF state championship in front of approximately 10,644 fans and became the first team to go undefeated in 11 years in the CIF. Once the school was taken out of the hands of the School District of Philadelphia, things began to change. Not by a long shot. MaxPreps National Basketball Player of the Year. Everett did it in 2004 with another future Michigan State star and future NBA draft pick, 6-foot-11 center Goran Suton, who immigrated to the United States from Serbia with his family right before he entered high school. Kidd and Corliss Williamson were 1a and 1b. Ronnie Courtney's career path is something to behold. 6-5 And the 1994 City Times' boys' all-star team is . 6-8 2023 Player Rankings. Our list includes 1982 Dunbar Poets, 1993 Oak Hill Academy, 1989 St. Anthonys, 2014 Montverde, 2016 Chino Hills and many more. 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. Other Links > Basketball > Top Ranked Basketball Players by High School . 6-4 W.T. That was when superstar junior guard Jalen Rose led them to the first of back-to-back state titles. Joey Beard Virginia-bound standout averaged 19.8 points, 9.9 assists, 9 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. 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. High School Orlando Sentinel Orlando All-Area Honorable Mention 202021. Below is a graphical representation of how our formula works. 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. Westtown School's 2016-17 team was one of the more dominant high school basketball teams of all time. 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). He has a good shot at becoming the first third-generation player in NBA history. Mboya, Landon; Javier Michaux, Howard; Natter Miller, Chancellor; Randy Forty percent of every freshmen class did not make it to graduation, and almost 60 percent of students zoned to attend Kashmere chose to attend different high schools. CARL BANKS, LB, BEECHER (1976-1979): A dominating defender and all-state player for the Buccaneers, Banks is one of the greatest high school players ever from the city of Flint. Averaged 23.6 While Kevin Garnett was the star, Ronnie Fields also was very talented. Inglewood has not played for a state championship since its undefeated team won it all in 1980. Good Counsel Collectively, they became legends who burnished their legacies with undefeated seasons, state championships and, in some cases, national championships. He starred in basketball for BYU but also played in the majors for the Toronto Blue Jays, where he became the youngest player in franchise history to hit a home run. 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. He really set a spark.. mythical national champions by USA Today. 2 No story about Camden High basketball is complete with mentioning the Wagner family three generations of elite basketball talent to walk the halls. Three-time all-DCIAA selection. 1993 Mr. Basketball USA. Forward Damian Cosby, Northern, 23.2 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. Key players: Kobe Bryant, Guy Stewart, Dave Rosenberg, Evan Monsky. City finished 13-0 in 1993 and averaged nearly 44 points per game with star halfback/defensive back and future Iowa Hawkeye standout Tim Dwight leading the way. Bronny James 2023. Career 109-51. Woodlawn went a staggering 39-0 unheard of scheduling even for the last 20 years and finished No. A Findlay Prep player was actually taken No. The player who can claim GOAT status out of Compton High is currently in the NBA with five-time NBA All-Star shooting guard/small forward DeMar DeRozan, who will have made $257.6 million in career earnings once his current contract with the Chicago Bulls ends after the 2023-24 season. Rnk: . I coached at Davenport Central in the early 60s when Cedar Rapids Jefferson and Davenport Central were the No. Banks scored 31 points for the Speedboys in a 72-52 win over Father Judge High in the city championship game. He was known for his long-distance shooting ability in an era with no 3-point line. After starring at St. Nicholas, Sealy starred for St. John's University, then played eight seasons in the NBA. Yates set a national record by scoring at least 100 points in 15 consecutive games. He was also one of the main components of one of the worst NBA trades of all time, when Golden State Warriors coach and general manager Don Nelson swapped Mitch Richmond for Owens, breaking up the Run TMC trio of Richmond, Chris Mullin and Tim Hardaway. They also became the first Louisiana team to win back-to-back state championships in the large school division. 1993: Nichols School (Buffalo) 296: 34: Mark Jackson: PG: 1988: Bishop Loughlin (Brooklyn) 304: 35: Metta World Peace: SF: 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. St. Augustine star Eugene Edgerson wasn't done winning national championships. 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. Morgan Wootten coached DeMatha Catholic for 46 years, leading the school to five national championships and 33 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference titles. McKinley; Jamail Pritchett, Quince Orchard; Chris Rhames, Anacostia; Dan Sabers said his two sons were in hog heaven knowing that Dwight and Honore were helping to build their new house. 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. You are thinking of Livingston being higher than Iverson, I believe othella Harrington was ranked 1 in that class, There used to be a site that went back to the early 90s and had recruiting rankings. Kingswood-Oxford Wyverns High School: 6'6'' 175: 87: Rutgers Signed. Sentinel went 27-0 and won the 1964 state championship behind 6-foot-8 forward Mike Lewis, who averaged 35 points per game and was a Parade All-American before he starred at Duke, where he was an All-ACC selection and All-American. In 2019, Stanley had a career year and made his first Pro Bowl and first NFL All-Pro Team. Senior And when that happens in a football game, boy, you know its on. No team from Flint Northwestern has won a state championship in any sport since the girls basketball team won it all in 1993. A wiry versatile player with endless length, Christie is a smooth . Ronnell Felton, Hayfield, 6-2, Jr. But we're guessing Magic may have averaged a triple-double. One school, one spot. Three years later, Rison led Michigan State to the Rose Bowl. Ellis teamed with future Wichita State guard Evan Wessel and future West Virginia running back Dreamius Smith to win four consecutive state championships from 2009 to 2012 under the leadership of head coach Joe Auer. Senior Key players: Derrick Rose, Bryant Orange, Timothy Flowers, Kevin Johnson. Jabari Parker led Simeon to four consecutive Class 4A state championships from 2010 to 2013, becoming 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. 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. And stories of what some colleges offered him (diamonds, movie roles, cash) are even unbelievable in today's day and age. They finished as state runner-up in 1988. Bosh was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021. 1. In 1992, Kidd was Naismith, Corliss Williamson was Gatorade. Also selected to the City 4-A team for the second consecutive season. Fields' basketball career never reached the heights he'd once hoped. 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. Wichita South head coach Steve Eck made the move to college basketball after the 1995-96 season and his last state championship at South. Anacostia Thornridge High never won another state title in boys basketball after Quinn Buckner led them to back-to-back titles in 1971 and 1972. Key players: Reggie Williams, Muggsy Bogues, Keith James, Mike Brown, Tim Dawson, Reggie Lewis. FIRST TEAM Follow Us On Social Media!Twitter: http://bit.ly/2zHv7dJInstagram: http://bit.ly/2inVlI4Facebook: http://bit.ly/2zNPZNQ Joseph Young was a second-round pick in the 2015 NBA draft and played three seasons for the Indiana Pacers. SCORING LEADERS Harris scored most of his points from inside, but could hit the medium-range jump shot when the game was on the line. In three seasons with Lucas, the Middies went 76-1. Ellis was a three-time All-Big 12 selection and two-time All-American at the University of Kansas. 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. The current Little Hawk squad also has a star senior running back leading the charge with Xavier Washpun having finished the regular season ranked third in Class 4A with 1,549 rushing yards. I may be completely wrong though. Led by senior guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (then known as Chris Jackson), Gulfport went 40-3 and won its second consecutive state championship in 1988, taking down a Murrah High team with two future NBA first-round draft picks, James Robinson and Lindsey Hunter, in the state championship game. 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. 3 in the nation in 2009 and won its third state championship in four years before the NJSIAA banned TPS from the 2010 tournament for violating workout guidelines in the offseason. Woodson The only loss for DeMatha that season? Minnehaha won its third state championship in four years in 2021. That year, Chamberlain scored over 70 points twice and 90 points once. 1 team in the country in the USA Today poll and beat opponents by an average margin of victory of 36.5 points. Location: Anchorage, Alaska. Coached by a former NBA star in Brandon Roy, Nathan Hale High grabbed a state championship and a handful of national championships by going unbeaten behind future NBA star forward Michael Porter Jr. Not everyone was a fan of how Nathan Hale put its team together, though. College highlights: None. Nathan Langley 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. Key players: Quinn Buckner, Mike Bonczyk, Boyd Batts. Blackmon is considered a slashing-type player, preferring to drive to the basket. The only team in the U.S. who could say they were better than Woodlawn in 2002-03 was the Lebron James-led St. Vincent-St. Mary High squad out of Akron, Ohio. Findlay Prep was the most basketball factory school of all the basketball factory schools who ever existed and played on a high level. 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. Arnett Young, Largo. He's the older brother of Ruth, Bonnie, Anita and Joan Pointer. Southwest Macon High coach Duck Richardson was so hard on his players they gave him a truly deplorable nickname we won't repeat here feel free to look it up if you're so inclined but the results are impossible to argue. But with him, it just made it an impossible team to beat really. Teammates Scottie Barnes and Moses Moody were also lottery picks in 2021. High school national championships in boys basketball come with the same momentum as winning a college football national championship. Key players: Sherrell Ford, Michael Finley, Donnie Boyce. You're not reading that wrong. 1 or No. This list contains annual awards given to the top national high school basketball player in the United States. High school graduation year: 1993. Future NBA superstar and Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was the first freshman to start on the varsity for Lower Merion High. Members of boys second-team rosters for the 1993-94 season, and their point averages: NAME SCHOOL YEAR HEIGHT AVG. Was Douglas, who starred at Syracuse and played 13 seasons in the NBA, the greatest player to ever come out of Spingarn? 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. Averaged 20 points, 10 assists and 6 steals for No. Ronald Rhodes, Calvert, 23.4 CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. The four consecutive state championships won by Carlisle High in the mid/late 1980s were the only four in school history. . Larry Brown also was part of the construction crew. Of the three players from Camden to make it to the NBA in school history, none were on the national championship team. Joseph Young was the star player on Yates' national championship team in 2010, when he averaged 27.5 points, 4.1 rebounds, 4.4 steals and 3.8 assists. 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. He signed with the University of Illinois but never played after the school was put on probation. The last week of regular-season play for ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC women's basketball brought some huge crowds, historic victories and unforgettable shots. Point guard Rumeal Robinson was a star for Rindge in 1986, leading his school to the state title before heading to the University of Michigan, where he teamed up with Glen Rice to win the 1989 NCAA championship.