Holmgren is projected as either the No. He was just one of three future NBA players on the roster alongside junior Voshon Lenard and senior Howard Eisley. He has a good shot at becoming the first third-generation player in NBA history. 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. That would be none other than Bel-Air Academy shooting guard Will Smith, the star of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and played originally by Overbrook High grad Will Smith. 51-68 25. Key players: Joseph Young, Brandon Peters. 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. 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. New Teacher jobs added daily. 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. Every High School Basketball team in the nation is ranked. UCLA (957 Points) Total appearances: 60.17% of all polls. They reportedly had 6,000 season-ticket holders. The Utah Jazz selected Wilkins No. East Anchorage wasn't done winning state championships when Trajan Langdon walked out the door. Pray for a rainout? Not by a long shot. 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. Props to The Sentinel for putting together this powerhouse online package about Carlisle High's four consecutive state championship teams that detailed the lives of the school's players and coaches before, during and after their time in the spotlight. The only loss for DeMatha that season? 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. 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. Also known as the world-famous, Grammy Award-winning musical group The Pointer Sisters. Key players: Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr., Stephen Van Treese, Damian Windham. Banks scored 31 points for the Speedboys in a 72-52 win over Father Judge High in the city championship game. Scott was probably a player ahead of his time. His father was a bodyguard for social activist Malcolm X, also known as Malik Shabazz, and named his son after him. Key players: Malik Sealy, Brian Reese, Adrian Autry. 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. 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. Crispus Attucks High's most famous team was the 1955 state championship team, which became the first all-Black school to win a state championship in Indiana history. 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. Dunbar finished the season 31-0 and beat teams from seven different states in the process. Key players: Antoine Carr, Darnell Valentine. 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. Key players: John Thompson, Edward Malloy, Tom Hooper, George Leftwich. After the legendary 2012-13 team, Lone Peak repeated as state champs in 2014 and won again in 2018. Fields' basketball career never reached the heights he'd once hoped. St. Anthony's was a national phenomenon. 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. 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. Three of SLAM's college hoop junkies compiled their personal lists using a mental simulation of "Who dominated their respective season the most . 2 overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft after spending one season at Gonzaga. 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. Teammates Scottie Barnes and Moses Moody were also lottery picks in 2021. 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. 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. High school national championships in boys basketball come with the same momentum as winning a college football national championship. Players: Mugsy Bouges (NBA), Reggie Lewis (NBA), Reggie Williams (NBA), David Wingate (NBA), Gary Grahm (UNLV), Tim Dawson (Miami), Keith James (UNLV), Darryl Woods (Virginia Union), Jerry White Notable Wins: Camden (NJ), DeMatha (MD), John Caroll (MD), Flint Hill (VA), Cardinal Gibbons Head Coach: Bob Wade No one could hold a candle to Chaminade College Prep's Jayson Tatum during his final two years as a high school player, when he led his school to the Class 5A state championships in 2016. Keatts, Howard and West were all inducted into the Hargrave Hall of Fame in 2011. Billy Owens never quite lived up to his potential on the college and pro levels. Bloomington South had two 6-foot guards who went on to play professional basketball, Jordan Hulls and Dee Davis, along with USA Today Coach of the Year J.R. Holmes on the bench. Trgovich won two national titles at UCLA, Stoddard won a national championship at North Carolina State and pitched 11 seasons in the majors. 13 Gerald Brown, Phoenix Carl Hayden, 1993. He held the career scoring record for the Aztecs until it was broken by Kawhi Leonard in 2011. No story about Camden High basketball is complete with mentioning the Wagner family three generations of elite basketball talent to walk the halls. 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. In an All-Star game against Kentucky he had 53 points and 30 rebounds. 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. It's a pretty amazing stat line that was wasted on some pretty awful teams. 2 in all the major national polls. Key players: Jeff Malone, Terry Fair, Bobby Jones, Michael Hunt, Hook McCarthy, Eric Hightower. After starring at St. Nicholas, Sealy starred for St. John's University, then played eight seasons in the NBA. 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. In 1995, El-Amin was pulling off similar feats. Then known as Lew Alcindor, he led New York City's Power Memorial High to a 71-game winning streak and three consecutive city championships and was a two-time Parade All-American. 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. Four years later, he led Michigan to the 1989 NCAA championship. It featured a starting five of all future Division I players and two future NBA draft picks, Mo Bamba and Cam Reddish, the No. Key players: Quinn Buckner, Mike Bonczyk, Boyd Batts. Joseph Young was a second-round pick in the 2015 NBA draft and played three seasons for the Indiana Pacers. Otis was eventually convicted of sexually molesting one of his players in 2009. 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. He cashed out a staggering $103.2 million in career earnings. Another starter, Edward "Monk" Malloy, became president at the University of Notre Dame. The 1977 state champions were inducted into the Lansing Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. Key players: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Leonard Bennett, Dwayne Davis. 22 Centerville and . staggering $103.2 million in career earnings. 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. Dominique Wilkins went to the University of Georgia and played three seasons before leaving school early and declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft. Yates set a national record by scoring at least 100 points in 15 consecutive games. This was the third of three consecutive national title teams for McClymonds. 1 or No. The Willowridge High squad in 2000-01 was led by a pair of McDonald's All-Americans who went on to star in college and play in the NBA with Daniel Ewing and T.J. Ford. 3 overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves and was immediately traded to the Memphis Grizzlies. 1 overall in the 2003 NBA draft, SVSM has won five more state titles, in 20009, 2011, 2017, 2018 and 2021. 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. 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. In the late 1930s, Art Spector was the star for West Philadelphia. These are the greatest high school basketball teams of all time. 3 in the national rankings and won a Class 4A state championship. East Chicago Washington High averaged 95 points per game during the 1970-71 season, led by a bevy of future pro and college talent. Len Elmore also played for Power Memorial after Abdul-Jabbar. And they went 4-20. Simeon Career Academy didn't have to wait long for another generational talent to walk its halls. 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. St. Nicholas' only loss came to New Jersey powerhouse St. Anthony's in a tournament in Hawaii. After three years playing Major League Baseball, Danny Ainge turned his focus to basketball, where he won NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in 1984 and 1986. That was when superstar junior guard Jalen Rose led them to the first of back-to-back state titles. Thompson went on to star at Providence. Mike Welton, Billings West - Welton was a three-time all-state selection at West and is still the Golden Bears' all-time leading scorer. Unfortunately for Simon Gratz High, the school became known for more than its basketball talent throughout the 1980s and 1990s, when it was a perennial member of the Persistently Dangerous Schools List. 6 overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft. You're not reading that wrong. In 2007, a study at John Hopkins University looking at graduation rates around the U.S. classified Kashmere as a "dropout factory." Kashmere High went 46-0 in 1974-75 in an era where states weren't quite as stringent on scheduling limits. 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. 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. He's been a three-time NBA All-Star and will have made $214.2 million in career earnings when his current contract runs out after the 2022-23 season. Larry Bird. Key players: Larry Hollyfield, Mike Hopwood, Biff Burrell, Reynaldo Brown, Keith Lee, Louie Nelson. 3 overall in the NBA draft. Lanier finished ranked No. Williams, Jamall Walker, Manny Dies, Mark Eck, Robert Lolar. 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. 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. Mayo, Patrick Patterson, Jamaal Williams, Michael Taylor. 3 in the USA Today Top 25. The three-time Missouri Gatorade Player of the Year and McDonald's All-American had six 40-point games as a senior. Ellis was a three-time All-Big 12 selection and two-time All-American at the University of Kansas. 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. Courtney won another state title at George Bush High School in 2010. He was known for his long-distance shooting ability in an era with no 3-point line. The four consecutive state championships won by Carlisle High in the mid/late 1980s were the only four in school history. After Parker won the Class AA state championship, they played in a national tournament, where they took down the defending national champions from Pearl (Tennessee) High before beating Armstrong (Virginia) High in the finals. 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. Duckworth was selected as an NBA All-Star twice and named NBA Most Improved Player in 1988. 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. 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. He played both baseball and basketball at the University of Arizona, where he was a three-year letter-winner. 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. Without further ado, here are the top-ranked high school basketball programs in America as of January 21, 2021. Just a few years after King College Prep's national championship in 1990, King won another state championship in 1993 behind a pair of 7-footers 7-foot-2 Thomas Hamilton and 7-foot Rashard Griffith. 50. Nationally-ranked programs Bishop McNamara, DeSoto, La Jolla Country Day headline list. And it was Douglas who led his team to the city championship (over DeMatha) and mythical national championship as he averaged 26 points, 6.0 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 4.0 steals. Tatum went on to star for Duke, where he played one season before he was the No. Other Links > Basketball > Top Ranked Basketball Players by High School . Oh, did we mention 10-year NBA veteran and first-round draft pick Jeff Grayer was also on the roster? Chet Holmgren swept every major national player of the year award at Minnehaha in leading them to the Class 3A state title in 2021. Key players: Jerry Lucas, Larry Emrick, Tom Sizer. Dajuan Wagner's son, D.J. After Bridgeman left Washington, he was a two-time Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year for Louisville, then played 12 seasons in the NBA. Parker was an All-American in his one season at Duke and the No. Sandy Creek. "The thing I like the most is we have a strong locker room," says Wawasee head coach Jon Everingham. The talent faucet didn't just shut off after Dennis Scott and Co. left in the late 1980s. Monta Ellis ended up having a 12-year career and averaged 17.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. Bosh was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021. 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. The 2019-20 Blazer team was 28-0 heading into the state tournament, looking to become the first team to go unbeaten and win a state title since Brewers High in 1948. 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. Key players: Howard Porter, Hugh Yancy, Arthur Johnson. Booker High won two more state championships after moving from the FIAA to the FHSAA, in 1985 and 2006. It wasn't just Cunningham who stood out for Montverde. Bishop Gorman High is known for being a football powerhouse, but in 2009-10, it featured one of the best high school teams in the nation. Michigan has had a lot of great teams several made this list but a young Rice was truly the show here. The team, which also was featured in the 2018 documentary "We Town," won consecutive Independent Schools state titles in 2016 and 2017. When teams from New York end up on the national stage, it's usually coming out of New York City. Woodlawn star RoShon Jacobs went on to become an All-Southland pick in both football and basketball for Louisiana-Monroe. In 2021, Eck returned to coaching high school basketball and back in Wichita at Kapaun Mount Carmel High School. 1 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2007 NBA draft and subsequently became one of the biggest busts in professional sports history. By 1946, enrollment at Parker grew to 3,761 students, making it the largest exclusively African-American high school in the world. 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. Bob Hurley Sr. would be St. Anthony High's coach for 45 years, staying at the school until the day it closed in 2017. 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). Valentine played 10 seasons in the NBA, while Carr played 16 seasons. In basketball-crazy Kansas, one high school team stands above all the rest the 1976-77 Wichita Heights High team led by future NBA first-round draft picks Darnell Valentine and Antoine "Big Dog" Carr. First things first. 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). We went . Juan Dixon was a skinny shooting guard who took college basketball by storm in the early 2000s, leading the University of Maryland to its only national championship in 2002 while being named Final Four Most Outstanding Player. 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. 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. The team's first four games were against teams that have appeared in the top 50. There were two future NBA players on McClymonds High's unbeaten 1959-60 team Paul Silas and Joe Ellis. 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. Wilt Chamberlain wasn't the only NBA player to come out of Overbrook High. 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. Key players: Dee Davis, Jordan Hulls, Matt Carlino, Erik Fromm. You can make an argument for Cage being the greatest high school basketball player in Arkansas history. 13 in final MaxPreps Top 25 Breakdown: The school's all-time leading scorer Jalen Suggs is now at Gonzaga . 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). 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. Wagner, is currently a star guard for Camden High and the No. We began with teams No. Proviso East's legendary early 1990s teams weren't the last time multiple NBA players would be on the roster, either. Key players: Pete Trgovich, Junior Bridgeman, Tim Stoddard, Darnell Adell, Ruben Bailey. Key players: Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Paul Dawson, Larry Hunter. Wilkins went on to become arguably the greatest player in franchise history. Three years later, Rison led Michigan State to the Rose Bowl. We conclude our 2021-22 preseason FAB 50 National Team Rankings powered by Ballislife.com with an in-depth look at the nation's top 15 teams. In fact, a Flint Hill grad turned in arguably the greatest performance in ACC Tournament history. 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. Oscar Robertson left Crispus Attucks High and embarked on one of the greatest college and pro basketball careers of all time. Key players: Mo Bamba, Cam Reddish, Brandon Randolph, Anthony Ochefu, Jake Forrester. Samuel Pierce played for Vanderbilt and became the first Black player in SEC history. Boyce is on his second stint as Proviso East's head coach after being re-hired in 2016. 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. 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