2 Philadelphia Neumann-Goretti High. Harrison Barnes has been in the NBA since he was selected No. He held the career scoring record for the Aztecs until it was broken by Kawhi Leonard in 2011. Otis was eventually convicted of sexually molesting one of his players in 2009. 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. 1 overall pick Kyrie Irving. Led by 2021 NBA draft No. Lazare played professional basketball for eight years. "We've still got a heartbeat . Fields' basketball career never reached the heights he'd once hoped. Wilt Chamberlain wasn't the only NBA player to come out of Overbrook High. 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. 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. 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. Proviso East's legendary early 1990s teams weren't the last time multiple NBA players would be on the roster, either. Bosh was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021. Abdul-Rauf was one of the most highly recruited players in the country coming out of high school and played two seasons for LSU, where he was an All-American both years, then was the No. Latimore and Chino Hills responded by winning back-to-back state championships in 2018 and 2019. Of all the stars off the 1979-80 West Memphis High team, 6-foot-9 forward Michael Cage went on to have the best career. He has a good shot at becoming the first third-generation player in NBA history. Key players: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Leonard Bennett, Dwayne Davis. Oak Hill featured a starting lineup with four future NBA players Jerry Stackhouse, Jeff McGinnis, Mark Blount and Makhtar Ddiaye and had another five future Division I players on the roster. 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. Ellis spent the first seven seasons of his career with the Golden State Warriors and made the playoffs just once, when he was named NBA Most Improved Player in 2007. 2 in the final USA Today Super 25 Poll. 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. Key players: Harrison Barnes, Doug McDermott. Porter Jr.'s father was hired as an assistant coach by the University of Washington before the season and brought his five-star recruit son with him to Seattle. 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. Power Memorial Academy continued to pump out elite NBA talent long after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar graduated. 3 overall, but he refused to play for Utah and was traded to the Atlanta Hawks a few months later. 40 overall. Key players: Jevon Crudup, Deric Cofield, Steve Aldrich, Scott Fidler, Andy Nicholson, Bryan Harris, Jesse Battles. 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. 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. Led by back-to-back Utah Mr. Basketball picks Nick Emery and T.J. Haws, they won the Class 6A state championship. Brandon, who originally committed to play for Illinois, teamed with Shaquille O'Neal at LSU and helped lead the Tigers to a Sweet 16 appearance. Dominguez made it to the championship game again in 2008 but lost to McClymonds High. 1. With five players ranked in the 2023 ESPN 100 and four more ranked in the 2024 . Dunbar finished the season 31-0 and beat teams from seven different states in the process. When teams from New York end up on the national stage, it's usually coming out of New York City. Ames went 27-0 in 2009-10 their second consecutive state championship Vance Downs was named USA Today National Coach of the Year and the team finished No. Compton High hasn't played in a CIF State Championship Game since 1969 but has played for the Southern California Championship and lost three times in 1998, 2010 and 2014. Williams (Kansas), forward Manny Dies (Kansas State), point guard Jamall Walker (Saint Louis) and his nephew, Mark Eck, who led Fort Hays State to an NCAA Division II national championship in 1996. 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. The star players on its 2016-17 team were Mo Bamba and Cameron Reddish; other top players included heralded recruits Brandon Randolph, Anthony Ochefu and Jake Forrester. Valentine played 10 seasons in the NBA, while Carr played 16 seasons. 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. Westtown isn't the only. Barnes and McDermott were actually teammates in the NBA, with both playing for the Dallas Mavericks in 2018. Larry Bird from the 1977 "Sycamore" student yearbook photo sourced from Wikimedia commons. Montverde's 2021-22 team was making another push to be the best in school history, with six players ranked in the ESPN Top 25, led by No. 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. Hoover played at Villanova and was the No. When Chino Hills hired Dennis Latimore as its coach before the 2017-18 season, LaVar Ball pulled his youngest son, LaMelo Ball, out of school and publicly criticized Latimore's hiring adding to the Ball family's history of firebombing every bridge they crossed. Bobby Hurley was one of three future NBA players on the roster alongside Rodrick Rhdes and Terry Dehere, as St. Anthony defeated teams from 10 different states on the way to a 32-0 record. Key players: Reggie Williams, Muggsy Bogues, Keith James, Mike Brown, Tim Dawson, Reggie Lewis. Rose was the real prize, though. Findlay Prep was the most basketball factory school of all the basketball factory schools who ever existed and played on a high level. Mike Welton, Billings West - Welton was a three-time all-state selection at West and is still the Golden Bears' all-time leading scorer. 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. Bob Hurley Sr. would be St. Anthony High's coach for 45 years, staying at the school until the day it closed in 2017. At the heart of Bloomington South's program was its ever-present head coach, J.R. Holmes. That year, Chamberlain scored over 70 points twice and 90 points once. 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. 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. 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. He was picked No. Four years later, he led Michigan to the 1989 NCAA championship. Key players: Glen Rice, Andre Rison, Jeff Grayer. Collectively, they became legends who burnished their legacies with undefeated seasons, state championships and, in some cases, national championships. . The team's first four games were against teams that have appeared in the top 50. Buckner, who was also the Illinois Player of the Year in football, also won a gold medal in the Olympics, led Indiana to an undefeated NCAA championship season in 1976 and won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics. 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. 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. 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. Morgan Wootten coached DeMatha Catholic for 46 years, leading the school to five national championships and 33 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference titles. This was the first of three consecutive state championships for Minneapolis North High, but the only one of the three to go undefeated. 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. It's easy to understand why most people look at the 1982-83 Dunbar High squad as the de facto greatest high school basketball team of all time. He is a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. No. Sort of. 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. "The thing I like the most is we have a strong locker room," says Wawasee head coach Jon Everingham. The 1988 Carlisle High team featured one of the greatest high school basketball players of all time in future Syracuse star and No. 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. 5 overall recruit Dariq Whitehead, a 6-foot-6 small forward signed to play for Duke. 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. 1! They went 75-1 over their final two seasons together at Willowridge. Don't feel too bad for Ellis. The template for how tough a high school basketball league can be has to include the Baltimore Catholic League. Monta Ellis ended up having a 12-year career and averaged 17.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. Mayo was one of the most highly sought basketball recruits of all time. He played one season at USC before he was the No. 5 overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft. Key players: John Thompson, Edward Malloy, Tom Hooper, George Leftwich. 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. Wagner, is currently a star guard for Camden High and the No. By far the most difficult school to pick just one team from, we give the edge to Morgan Wooten's 1972-73 squad mainly because of the presence of Adrian Dantley and Kenny Carr, who would both become NBA lottery picks. The Utah Jazz selected Wilkins No. Key players: Jalen Rose, Vashon Leonard, Howard Eisley, Garland Mance, Elton Carter. MaxPreps said Lone Peak High was the top public school team in the country in 2012-13. Muhammad led the Gaels to another state championship as a senior in 2012. Key players: Bobby Hurley, Rodrick Rhodes, Jerry Walker, Terry DeHere, Danny Hurley. The 7-footer won two state basketball championships (1978 and 1979) while also earning Parade All-American honors. Chet Holmgren swept every major national player of the year award at Minnehaha in leading them to the Class 3A state title in 2021. 26-50 | Nos. 5) Indianapolis Washington, 1969. That didn't take away from what the team actually accomplished, winning a second consecutive state championship behind 32 points from future Villanova star Corey Fisher in the championship game. Key players: Curtis Walls, Lee Wall, Louis Banks, Sean Turner, Larry Cohen, Reggie Lawrence, Kevin Smith, Dennis Brown, Davis Nieves, Vic Carstarphen. 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. The four consecutive state championships won by Carlisle High in the mid/late 1980s were the only four in school history. High school assists were not a stat they were recording yet. Wilkins went on to become arguably the greatest player in franchise history. He attended the University of Pittsburgh but never played there. High School All-American and Mississippi Player of the Year Monta Ellis capped his career with a second state championship for Lanier High and did it with one of the more amazing statistical seasons we've ever seen 41.0 points, 7.9 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 4.5 steals. The story of Kashmere High through the present day has been one of struggle. Key players: Jerry Stackhouse, Jeff McGinnis, Mark Blount, Makhtar Ndiaye, Alex Sanders, Curtis Staples, Jermaine Smith, Mike Brittain, Tavares Johnson. 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. Inhis final season, he averaged 25.2 points, 9.1 assists, 8.8 rebounds and 3.4 steals and was named Illinois Mr. Basketball and a McDonald's All-American. And stories of what some colleges offered him (diamonds, movie roles, cash) are even unbelievable in today's day and age. 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. Willie Weeks, Wolf Point - Weeks helped lead the Wolves to the 1968 Big 32 state championship . The undefeated Arkansas state championship team reached as high as No. Emery and Haws both went on to play for BYU, where Haws was a two-time All-WCC selection. Find out where your teams stands. In the famous single-class system of high school basketball in Indiana, only two teams ever won three consecutive state titles Franklin High from 1920 to 1922 and Marion High from 1985 to 1987. 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. It featured a starting five of all future Division I players and two future NBA draft picks, Mo Bamba and Cam Reddish, the No. I stand in awe of him.". Key players: Kobe Bryant, Guy Stewart, Dave Rosenberg, Evan Monsky. The only loss for DeMatha that season? Every High School Basketball team in the nation is ranked. He also played seven years in the NBA. There has been a lot of great high school basketball teams. Key players: Nick Emery, T.J. Haws, Erik Mika, Talon Shumway, Connor Toolson. McClymonds, which also counts NBA legend Bill Russell among its former players, also featured another star, future MLB outfielder Aaron Pointer. Ronnie Courtney's career path is something to behold. Lewis played six seasons in the ABA and was an ABA All-Star in 1971, but his career was cut short by an Achilles tendon injury. Beal was the Gatorade National Player of the Year in 2011 and played one season at the University of Florida. What the Eagles accomplished over 25 games this past season has only been matched a few times in the history of the high school game going back to Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, which ushered in an era of the game where . Ranking Explanation . 51-68 25. After Bryant's death in a helicopter crash in January 2020, the school hosted a memorial service in the gym named after the fallen star. But we're guessing Magic may have averaged a triple-double. These are the greatest high school basketball teams of all time. 10 overall pick in the 1990 NBA draft and played five seasons in the NBA. They lost one game all year, but it was just the second game of the season. Kennedy strolled to a . Then they reeled off 36 straight wins after that, capping it all with a 57-33 win over Baton Rouge Catholic High in the Class 5A state championship game. 7 overall recruit in the country. In 2007, a study at John Hopkins University looking at graduation rates around the U.S. classified Kashmere as a "dropout factory." 13 overall in the NBA draft several months later. Teammates Scottie Barnes and Moses Moody were also lottery picks in 2021. Head coach Kevin Boyle was named USA Today National Coach of the Year in 2007 as well. 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. 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