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. 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. Ellis was a three-time All-Big 12 selection and two-time All-American at the University of Kansas. 1 overall in the 2013 NBA draft. 5 overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft. That was when superstar junior guard Jalen Rose led them to the first of back-to-back state titles. 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. After Khalid El-Amin led Minneapolis North Community High to three consecutive state championships, the school didn't win another state title until 2003, then not again after that until winning back-to-back titles in 2016 and 2017. Without further ado, here are the top-ranked high school basketball programs in America as of January 21, 2021. Key players: Antoine Carr, Darnell Valentine. Key players: Shabazz Muhammad, Ronnie Stanley, Xavier Grimble. 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. Long Beach Poly's girls team, however, has become a state powerhouse in that time. 20 St. Paul VI, No. Dominique Wilkins went to the University of Georgia and played three seasons before leaving school early and declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft. 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. Rose and Simeon won titles in 2006 and 2007. Key players: Danny Ainge, Rodger Bates, Mike O'Neill, Greg Niko, Steve Moulton, Greg Jacobson. Without a question of a doubt, the 2019-20 Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.) team is one of the greatest of all-time. No story about Camden High basketball is complete with mentioning the Wagner family three generations of elite basketball talent to walk the halls. 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. Dunbar finished the season 31-0 and beat teams from seven different states in the process. Key players: O.J. Earvin "Magic" Johnson led Lansing's Everett High to a state championship in 1977 when he averaged 28.8 points and 16.8 rebounds. In December 2010, the school named its new gymnasium after Bryant after he donated$500,000 to refurbish the gymnasium one of many times Bryant gave back to his alma mater. Attucks went 62-1 over the last two seasons with Robertson as its star. Len Elmore also played for Power Memorial after Abdul-Jabbar. Pointer wasn't even the most famous person in his family. Minnehaha won its third state championship in four years in 2021. 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. 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. Robertson led the nation in scoring three times and was a three-time National Player of the Year at the University of Cincinnati before he became a 12-time NBA All-Star, nine-time All-NBA selection and was named to the NBA's 35th, 50th and 75th Anniversary Team. 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. 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. 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. Five years before Tatum was selected, Chaminade's Bradley Beal was selected No. Future NBA players Dee Brown and Shannon Brown were teammates in the early 2000s. 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. Key players: Adrian Dantley, Kenny Carr, Billy Langloh, Eric Coard, Ron Satterthwaite, Buzzy O'Connell, Vern Allen. McClymonds went 32-0 that season, becoming the first high school basketball team from the East Bay to go unbeaten since Berkeley High in 1969-70. 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. If only they would've gotten to play Dunbar High, would it have been the greatest game ever? The undefeated Arkansas state championship team reached as high as No. 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. [jwplayer lpqhoLGb-BmKM743H] It was another hardware-filled week of high school basketball around the nation, as No. Key players: Derrick Rose, Bryant Orange, Timothy Flowers, Kevin Johnson. 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. 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. Michigan has had a lot of great teams several made this list but a young Rice was truly the show here. 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. Woodlawn star RoShon Jacobs went on to become an All-Southland pick in both football and basketball for Louisiana-Monroe. Key players: Glen Rice, Andre Rison, Jeff Grayer. With Ewing on its roster, Cambridge could beat just about anybody. 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. That year, Chamberlain scored over 70 points twice and 90 points once. 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. 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. Jo Jo White was one of the top players to ever play high school basketball in St. Louis. Oscar Robertson left Crispus Attucks High and embarked on one of the greatest college and pro basketball careers of all time. 1. 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. Beal was the Gatorade National Player of the Year in 2011 and played one season at the University of Florida. Williams, Jamall Walker, Manny Dies, Mark Eck, Robert Lolar. 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. Key players: Jamie Brandon, Damian Porter, Fred Sculfield, Anton Little, Rashard Griffith. 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. 5) Indianapolis Washington, 1969. 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. 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. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 R&B/Hip-Hop chart. Every state has its high school basketball legends. Leverage your professional network, and get hired. 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. Led by 2021 NBA draft No. 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). First things first. Westtown isn't the only. One of Hargrave's greatest players and its greatest coach teamed up to win a national championship on the college level. Key players: Da'Quan Cook, Corey Fisher, Brad Haugabrook, Jeff Robinson. Of the three players from Camden to make it to the NBA in school history, none were on the national championship team. He was at his most dominant as a junior in 1956-57, when he scored 45 points in the state semifinals. While the greatest player in Inglewood High history is undoubtedly Basketball Hall of Famer Paul Pierce, the greatest team tag belongs to the 1979-80 squad. It's routinely viewed as one of the worst high schools in the country when it comes to academics. In 2013, Hancock was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player after he led Louisville to the national championship. 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. Two players off the team ended up playing in the NBA Jay Humphries and Ralph Jackson. The best team their school ever had was the next year, when future NBA legend Oscar Robertson was a senior and led the team to 31-0 record and was named Mr. Basketball in Indiana. View More Preseason 2022-23 FAB 50: Top 15 Teams! After the legendary 2012-13 team, Lone Peak repeated as state champs in 2014 and won again in 2018. 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. 17. 1. Bobby Hurley went on to win two national championships at Duke in 1991 and 1992. 1 in our boys' rankings. 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. The calendar has turned to March, which means college basketball is officially at the forefront of the sports world.The 2022-23 campaign has been as wide-open as ever and everything is up for . 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. Key players: Pete Trgovich, Junior Bridgeman, Tim Stoddard, Darnell Adell, Ruben Bailey. Ronnie Courtney's career path is something to behold. 2 in all the major national polls. The NBA suspended Abdul-Rauf for his refusal to stand, and two days later, he worked out a compromise. 7 overall in 2012 and won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in 2015. At one point in the early 2000s, the basketball and football teams featured a pair of future NFL Pro Bowlers as teammates quarterback Josh Cribbs, who became an elite return specialist in the NFL, and tight end Vernon Davis. He would stand during the anthem but looked downward and recited Islamic prayer. A Findlay Prep player was actually taken No. Lincoln beat three other nationally ranked teams on the way to going 40-0 and routing Beaumont Ozen, 71-51, in the Class 4A state championship game. Center Kentrell Gransberry became an All-Big East pick at the University of South Florida. 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. The song was actually released in 2017 and didn't become a hit until 2018, when it went viral and climbed to No. Cage played 15 seasons in the NBA and led the league in rebounding while playing for the Los Angeles Clippers in 1988. 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. Future NBA superstar and Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was the first freshman to start on the varsity for Lower Merion High. Key players: Paul Silas, Joe Ellis, Aaron Pointer. The Hargrave Military Academy 1998-99 basketball team was an absolute problem. All-Time Top 50 Men's List. The history of Parker High School encompasses much more than what happens on a basketball court. 2 Philadelphia Neumann-Goretti High. 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. How'd the Purple Knights do it? Some of those teams were even better than that. 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. 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. Inglewood has not played for a state championship since its undefeated team won it all in 1980. It is the administrative and cultural centre of the industrial Rhine-Ruhr area. 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. That's a truly remarkable feat for coach Greg Wise's squad. In three seasons with Lucas, the Middies went 76-1. 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. Rose was the real prize, though. Don't feel too bad for Ellis. Scott was probably a player ahead of his time. 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. At 6-foot-8, he was a 3-point shooter and one of the best long-distance shooters of the 1990s, when he played 11 seasons in the NBA. 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. 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. 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. 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. 3 in the nation in the polls and featured two future NBA lottery picks, 6-foot-9 forward Michael Cage and 6-10 center Keith Lee, with Cage as the alpha dog of the group. The Poets went wire-to-wire as the No. 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. Key players: Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr., Stephen Van Treese, Damian Windham. 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. Otis was eventually convicted of sexually molesting one of his players in 2009. 5 overall by the MInnesota Timberwolves. With five players ranked in the 2023 ESPN 100 and four more ranked in the 2024 . Wagner, is currently a star guard for Camden High and the No. 31-50 on October 24, continued with teams No. 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. 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. They reportedly had 6,000 season-ticket holders. Then, he went to play for the University of Missouri for his one college season. Paterson Kennedy's Jayden Briggs grabs the rebound away from Ridgewood's Matt Favieri (5) in the North 1, Group 4 high school basketball final in Paterson on Tuesday evening. 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. 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). Wiley then played more than a decade of professional basketball, including seven seasons in the NBA. Chris Bosh played one season at Georgia Tech before he was the No. James would have been the No. 1 and No. Flynn, who played collegiately at Syracuse, had the perfect complement in wing Paul Harris, who earned a reputation as an elite shutdown defender against some of the nation's top players. Valentine played 10 seasons in the NBA, while Carr played 16 seasons. 1 recruit in the nation before heading off to Duke University. 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. 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: Jalen Rose, Vashon Leonard, Howard Eisley, Garland Mance, Elton Carter. Larry Bird. He also played seven years in the NBA. Simeon Career Academy didn't have to wait long for another generational talent to walk its halls. Key players: Patrick Ewing, Kevin Headley. We rank the top 25 boys' high school basketball programs in the country. Not by a long shot. Banks scored 31 points for the Speedboys in a 72-52 win over Father Judge High in the city championship game. In his last year at TPS, Boyle had two future NBA players, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and 2012 NBA draft No. 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. There has been a lot of great high school basketball teams. 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. 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. 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. In the late 1930s, Art Spector was the star for West Philadelphia. Every High School Basketball team in the nation is ranked. Wichita South head coach Steve Eck made the move to college basketball after the 1995-96 season and his last state championship at South. Lathrop finished his career with a 955-300 overall record, with 924 of those wins coming at Raytown South, including four state titles. 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. They ended the year on a 58-game winning streak and defeated state champions from three different states, including national No. Oden only ended up playing in 105 career games. 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. Key players: Malik Sealy, Brian Reese, Adrian Autry. How popular were the Marion High teams in this stretch? He was named the Naismith Player of the Year and drafted No. Dee Brown led the University of Illinois to the 2005 NCAA championship game while Shannon Brown won a pair of NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009 and 2010. 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. Key players:Jay Edwards, Lyndon Jones,Nikki Mallory, Lefon Bowens, Jay Teagle, Eric Ewer, Daric Keys, Kyle Persinge. In 2019, Stanley had a career year and made his first Pro Bowl and first NFL All-Pro Team. First mentioned in 1159, Dsseldorf ("Village on the Dssel," a small tributary of the Rhine) was chartered in 1288 by the count of . 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. 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. 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. Milt Wagner's son, Dajuan Wagner, scored 100 points in a single game in 2001 against Camden County Tech and was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft after spending one season at Gonzaga. 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. 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. Ainge also was a two-time All-State quarterback and one of the top high school baseball players in the nation as well. Monta Ellis ended up having a 12-year career and averaged 17.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. James was hired as the head coach at Austin Peay in April 2021. Head coach Russell Otis was acquitted in his trial for sexually molesting one of his players and reclaimed his job before the 2002-03 season. 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. 3 scorer in state history. 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. Peoria Manual closed out the year with its fourth straight championship and was led in scoring by head coach Wayne McClain's son, Sergio McClain. With just one rule. They finished as state runner-up in 1988. 1 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2007 NBA draft and subsequently became one of the biggest busts in professional sports history. 1 overall in the 2003 NBA draft, SVSM has won five more state titles, in 20009, 2011, 2017, 2018 and 2021. 1 pick in the NBA draft after his junior season for sure and maybe his sophomore season and was a three-time Parade All-American and two-time National Player of the Year. He is a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. 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. It lies mainly on the right bank of the Rhine River, 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Cologne. 7 Calvary Christian, No. In fact, a Flint Hill grad turned in arguably the greatest performance in ACC Tournament history. Key players: Curtis Walls, Lee Wall, Louis Banks, Sean Turner, Larry Cohen, Reggie Lawrence, Kevin Smith, Dennis Brown, Davis Nieves, Vic Carstarphen. 22 Centerville and . 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. 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. Lazare played professional basketball for eight years. 1 team in the country in the USA Today poll and beat opponents by an average margin of victory of 36.5 points. He's currently the general manager for the New Orleans Pelicans. His father was a bodyguard for social activist Malcolm X, also known as Malik Shabazz, and named his son after him. Former Nathan Hale High star Michael Porter Jr. has become one of the most befuddling NBA prospects to come along in some time. Wallace, who went on to star at UNC and play 16 seasons in the NBA, was the big story and was featured in Sports Illustrated that year. MaxPreps High School Basketball Rankings. 10 overall pick in 2018. 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. Key players: LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Sian Cotton, Romeo Travis. 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. Lawrence North High star Greg Oden was picked No. Kashmere High went 46-0 in 1974-75 in an era where states weren't quite as stringent on scheduling limits. 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. Lucas added an NBA championship as a member of the New York Knicks in 1973 and would have been totally at home in the current era of pro basketball. 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. They were featured on "Dateline," "Regis and Kathie Lee," and in People Magazine and ended the season on a 50-game winning streak. St. Anthony's was a national phenomenon. SCNext Top 25: Ranking the best high school boys' basketball teams in the 2022-23 season. 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. In 1995, Randolph Childress averaged 35.7 points and 7.0 assists in the ACC Tournament, leading Wake Forest to the championship and hitting the game-winner against North Carolina in the finals. Bradley averaged 19 points per game, and playing all over the country in tournaments, he brought home MVP at every single one. Players and teams so great they took up permanent space in the memories of basketball fans. We recently released the preseason MaxPreps Top 25 high school girls basketball rankings, highlighted by . The best player for Southwestern High who kept coming up short of a state championship was probably Anderson Hunt, who eventually got a title on a much bigger stage. Even as a high schooler, Tatum was developing a reputation for lighting up the scorebook. Once the school was taken out of the hands of the School District of Philadelphia, things began to change. When teams from New York end up on the national stage, it's usually coming out of New York City. Lanier finished ranked No. The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time from Ohio High Schools 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. Langdon did it 1994 with a future NFL defensive end in the frontcourt with 6-foot-6 center Mao Tosi a devastating combo, regardless of what state you reside in. Key players: Michael Payne, Bruce Douglas. He's known to have heard a spectacular time playing basketball and many fans and . Kashmere brought home more than just a Class 4A state title in 1975. St. Augustine star Eugene Edgerson wasn't done winning national championships. 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.