2 on the Billboard Hot 100 R&B/Hip-Hop chart. In 2013, Hancock was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player after he led Louisville to the national championship. The two most sought-after players in the country in 1984-85 resided in the D.C. area with 6-foot-11 DeMatha High forward/center Danny Ferry and Spingarn High point guard Sherman Douglas, just 6-foot-1 and 160 pounds. George McGinnis scored 148 points in his last four games of the 69-state tournament for a 37-point average. Doug McDermott was named the National College Player of the Year at Creighton in 2014 and was the No. Bloomington South is a great example of a team that didn't necessarily need to overpower teams with size to win a lot of games, going undefeated and winning a coveted Indiana state championship. Key players: O.J. 1 in our boys' rankings. The steady flow of NBA talent didn't stop, either. 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. 1 overall in the 2013 NBA draft. Long Beach Poly has won six state championships since 2006, including four consecutive from 2006 to 2009 and back-to-back titles in 2013 and 2014. Key players: Jeff Malone, Terry Fair, Bobby Jones, Michael Hunt, Hook McCarthy, Eric Hightower. They finished as state runner-up in 1988. Pray for a rainout? Two starters for North were declared ineligible the day before the state championship game, but he put the team on his back and beat Staples-Motley High 54-52 for the title. Simply breathtaking. He held the career scoring record for the Aztecs until it was broken by Kawhi Leonard in 2011. Ellis was a three-time All-Big 12 selection and two-time All-American at the University of Kansas. Key players: Paul Silas, Joe Ellis, Aaron Pointer. Inglewood has not played for a state championship since its undefeated team won it all in 1980. At the heart of Bloomington South's program was its ever-present head coach, J.R. Holmes. Few have dominated on every level like the 7-foot-2 center did. And they went 4-20. They also became the first Louisiana team to win back-to-back state championships in the large school division. The school ultimately closed its doors in 2013. First mentioned in 1159, Dsseldorf ("Village on the Dssel," a small tributary of the Rhine) was chartered in 1288 by the count of . Key players: Joseph Young, Brandon Peters. 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. 1 overall pick Cade Cunningham, the Eagles had just one game decided by single digits on the way to a 25-0 record and mythical national title. 13 Gerald Brown, Phoenix Carl Hayden, 1993. In his last year at TPS, Boyle had two future NBA players, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and 2012 NBA draft No. Key players: John Thompson, Edward Malloy, Tom Hooper, George Leftwich. 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. Larry Bird played professionally in the National Basketball Association from 1979 to 1992. Key players: Duane Ferrell, James "Pop" Tubman, Marc Wilson, Paul Edwards, Pat Sass. Camden High's 1986 team went unbeaten and was rewarded with a national championship from USA Today when it came out on top in the final Super 25 Poll. The last state championships for Raytown South came with the undefeated team in 1989-90, but legendary head coach Bud Lathrop coached until 2006. Since James went No. 3 in the USA Today Top 25. Oden only ended up playing in 105 career games. Tatum went on to star for Duke, where he played one season before he was the No. 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. 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. The 1977 state champions were inducted into the Lansing Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. For all of Mo Bamba's basketball accomplishments, they now pale in comparison to a hit song named "Mo Bamba" written and performed by one of Bamba's childhood friends, rapper Sheck Wes. In 2019, Stanley had a career year and made his first Pro Bowl and first NFL All-Pro Team. 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. College basketball has been played since the 1890s, with some schools making a name for themselves throughout the following 130 years. 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. Courtney won another state title at George Bush High School in 2010. Joseph Young was a second-round pick in the 2015 NBA draft and played three seasons for the Indiana Pacers. 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. 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. Rice played 15 seasons in the NBA, was a three-time NBA All-Star, All-Star Game MVP in 1997 and a two-time All-NBA pick. Hoover played at Villanova and was the No. 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. Use the "Find my Team" feature to quickly locate your team! Sentinel didn't win a state championship for almost a decade, before going back-to-back in 1972 and 1973. 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. 51-68 25. 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. 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. 3 overall pick in the 1990 NBA draft. 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. 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. Barnes and McDermott were actually teammates in the NBA, with both playing for the Dallas Mavericks in 2018. Less than a decade after Buckner walked its halls, Thornridge's basketball program placed another player in the NBA with 7-foot center Kevin Duckworth. 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. 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. He was just one of three future NBA players on the roster alongside junior Voshon Lenard and senior Howard Eisley. 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. St. Anthony's was a national phenomenon. Fields, 6-foot-3, reportedly had a 50-inch vertical and once jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. Billy Owens never quite lived up to his potential on the college and pro levels. 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. Players and teams so great they took up permanent space in the memories of basketball fans. Ballislife.com - Ballislife.com is your 1 stop shop for everything basketball! 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. 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. 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. beat Peoria Manual 68-61 in the state championship game, jumped over future Illinois star Sergio McClain for a dunk. 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. Wilkins went on to become arguably the greatest player in franchise history. 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. They lost one game all year, but it was just the second game of the season. 2 in all the major national polls. Key players: Harrison Barnes, Doug McDermott. 3 NBA draft overall pick Billy Owens, who was on all four state title teams, scored 3,000 career points and earned comparisons to Magic Johnson coming out of high school. LeBron James, Patrick Ewing and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar all have one thing in common. Key players: Dee Davis, Jordan Hulls, Matt Carlino, Erik Fromm. Langdon was the one who paved the way for the other two as a three-time Alaska Gatorade Player of the Year and winner of three consecutive Class 4A state championships. 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. 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. He cashed out a staggering $103.2 million in career earnings. Key players: Maurice Robertson, Eugene Edgerson. 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. Any list of greatest high school basketball coaches needs to include Stu Vetter, who led two different schools to national titles Flint Hill Academy in 1987 and St. John's Catholic Prep in 1988. James was hired as the head coach at Austin Peay in April 2021. One of Hargrave's greatest players and its greatest coach teamed up to win a national championship on the college level. 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. 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. Former Hargrave star Luke Hancock transferred to the University of Louisville in 2011 after playing his first two seasons at George Mason. 1 overall pick Kyrie Irving. Sandy Creek. Emery and Haws both went on to play for BYU, where Haws was a two-time All-WCC selection. Key players: Karl Godine, Jarvis Williams, Carl Byrd, Madison Lane. The Utah Jazz selected Wilkins No. Key players: Adrian Dantley, Kenny Carr, Billy Langloh, Eric Coard, Ron Satterthwaite, Buzzy O'Connell, Vern Allen. Jevon Crudup was the straw that stirred the drink for Raytown South, which finished No. Bosh was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021. High school assists were not a stat they were recording yet. 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. Key players: B.J. 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). Michigan has had a lot of great teams several made this list but a young Rice was truly the show here. Six players off the Compton High national championship teams led by head coach Bill Armstrong went on to play Division I basketball. Lazare played professional basketball for eight years. It also earned one of high school basketball's mythical national championships from the National Sports News Service. 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. The 6-foot-8 forward began to pick up national attention as a senior when he had 48 points, 27 rebounds, 8 blocks and 9 dunks in a win over a much larger school a performance that earned him a spot in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" section. 5 overall recruit Dariq Whitehead, a 6-foot-6 small forward signed to play for Duke. Key players: Nick Emery, T.J. Haws, Erik Mika, Talon Shumway, Connor Toolson. Bob Hurley Sr. would be St. Anthony High's coach for 45 years, staying at the school until the day it closed in 2017. 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: Rasheed Wallace, Rondell Turner, Jamahal Redmond, Lynard Stewart, Reds Smith, Terrel Stokes, Alem Watson. 13 in final MaxPreps Top 25 Breakdown: The school's all-time leading scorer Jalen Suggs is now at Gonzaga . There were two future NBA players on McClymonds High's unbeaten 1959-60 team Paul Silas and Joe Ellis. Montverde Academy of Florida is the . Few teams have done what St. Augustine High did in 1994-95, climbing from unranked in the preseason all the way to the top of all the major national high school polls by the end of the year. 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. Don't feel too bad for Ellis. Morgan Wootten coached DeMatha Catholic for 46 years, leading the school to five national championships and 33 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference titles. The truly bananas fact about Oak Hill Academy's 1992-93 season is that six of the 36 wins were against college teams on the way to winning the school's first mythical high school national championship. They led state powerhouse Kansas City Wyandotte 25-0 to start the state championship game on the way to a 92-52 victory. Parker High opened in 1900 to serve African-American students. 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. The 2019-20 Minnehaha Academy team didn't need a state tournament to tell us what we already knew they just don't make high school basketball teams like this very often. Kashmere brought home more than just a Class 4A state title in 1975. This was the third of three consecutive national title teams for McClymonds. Led by 2021 NBA draft No. You got to see future NFL All-Pro wide receiver Andre Rison tossing alley-oop passes to future NBA All-Star Glen Rice. Key players: Jamie Brandon, Damian Porter, Fred Sculfield, Anton Little, Rashard Griffith. Scott was probably a player ahead of his time. The trio known as "The Three Amigos" beat Peoria Manual 68-61 in the state championship game and were coached by a Proviso East alum in Bill Hitt. 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. Wichita South head coach Steve Eck made the move to college basketball after the 1995-96 season and his last state championship at South. 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. Key players: Bobby Hurley, Rodrick Rhodes, Jerry Walker, Terry DeHere, Danny Hurley. Kennedy strolled to a . 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. 17. 3 scorer in state history. 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 first of St. Anthony High head coach Bob Hurley Sr.'s four mythical national championships came with his son, Bobby Hurley, leading the team at point guard. 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? Future NBA players Dee Brown and Shannon Brown were teammates in the early 2000s. Bradley averaged 19 points per game, and playing all over the country in tournaments, he brought home MVP at every single one. Willie Weeks, Wolf Point - Weeks helped lead the Wolves to the 1968 Big 32 state championship . Once the school was taken out of the hands of the School District of Philadelphia, things began to change. Key players: Frank Williams, Sergio McClain, Marcus Griffin. James would have been the No. 11 overall pick in 2014. 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. Key players: Howard Porter, Hugh Yancy, Arthur Johnson. Earvin "Magic" Johnson led Lansing's Everett High to a state championship in 1977 when he averaged 28.8 points and 16.8 rebounds. Len Elmore also played for Power Memorial after Abdul-Jabbar. Findlay Prep was the most basketball factory school of all the basketball factory schools who ever existed and played on a high level. No team from Flint Northwestern has won a state championship in any sport since the girls basketball team won it all in 1993. Dominguez made it to the championship game again in 2008 but lost to McClymonds High. Larry Bird from the 1977 "Sycamore" student yearbook photo sourced from Wikimedia commons. 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. The Poets went wire-to-wire as the No. His father was a bodyguard for social activist Malcolm X, also known as Malik Shabazz, and named his son after him. Key players: Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Paul Dawson, Larry Hunter. 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. If only they would've gotten to play Dunbar High, would it have been the greatest game ever? Even as a high schooler, Tatum was developing a reputation for lighting up the scorebook. Key players: Lonzo Ball, LiAngelo Ball, LaMelo Ball, Onyeka Okongwu, Eli Soctt, Andre Ball, Cameron Shelton. Key players: Tyson Chandler, Sherman Gay, Marcus Moore, Ellis Moore, Ellis Myles. 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. One year later, head coach Kevin Boyle left TPS to become the new coach at Montverde Academy. The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time from Ohio High Schools He was named the Naismith Player of the Year and drafted No. Quincy was led by a pair of future Big Ten standouts, 6-foot-10 center Michael Payne (Iowa) and 6-foot-3 guard Bruce Douglas (Illinois), who played in the NBA for one season. They've won five state championships since he graduated, in 1995, 1999, 2000, 2013 and 2021 and finished as state runner-up four more times. 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. Ainge also was a two-time All-State quarterback and one of the top high school baseball players in the nation as well. 31-50 on October 24, continued with teams No. Markus Black, the point guard on the 2006 state championship team, became Booker's head coach in 2016 and coached there until 2021, when he was hired to join Eric Musselman's staff at the University of Arkansas. 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. Hamilton became a basketball oddity. Dominguez repeated as state champions in 2001, then won another state title in 2004 the last state championship in school history. Marion High's eight state championships in boys basketball are the most in Indiana history, but the "Purple Reign" teams that won three consecutive titles from 1985 to 1987 are still the most well known. You can still watch Long Beach Poly's thrilling 45-44 win over Mater Dei in the CIF championship game and see for yourself why this team made the list. Lathrop finished his career with a 955-300 overall record, with 924 of those wins coming at Raytown South, including four state titles. How'd the Purple Knights do it? Few high school athletes anywhere, ever, can compare with Danny Ainge at North Eugene High 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. staggering $103.2 million in career earnings. Key players: Sherrell Ford, Michael Finley, Donnie Boyce. It is the administrative and cultural centre of the industrial Rhine-Ruhr area. Led by back-to-back Utah Mr. Basketball picks Nick Emery and T.J. Haws, they won the Class 6A state championship. 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. He attended the University of Pittsburgh but never played there. 16-30 on October 25 and now have published an in-depth look at the nation's 50 best teams. 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. Players and teams so great they took up permanent space in the memories of basketball fans. Key players: Jalen Rose, Vashon Leonard, Howard Eisley, Garland Mance, Elton Carter. With no scheduling limitations, the 1963-64 Birmingham Parker High team played a whopping 44 games and was named National Black High School champions in an era before integrated schools had made their way to all parts of the United States. 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. Monta Ellis ended up having a 12-year career and averaged 17.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. Larry Bird. First things first. We recently released the preseason MaxPreps Top 25 high school girls basketball rankings, highlighted by . Cage played 15 seasons in the NBA and led the league in rebounding while playing for the Los Angeles Clippers in 1988. Some of those teams were even better than that. Harris transferred to Notre Dame Prep in Massachusetts for his final high school season and played for Syracuse for three seasons before declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft and going unselected. Without further ado, here are the top-ranked high school basketball programs in America as of January 21, 2021. 2 overall pick by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2014 NBA draft. 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. Williams, Jamall Walker, Manny Dies, Mark Eck, Robert Lolar. The NBA suspended Abdul-Rauf for his refusal to stand, and two days later, he worked out a compromise. East Anchorage wasn't done winning state championships when Trajan Langdon walked out the door. Forward Duane Ferrell went on to star at Georgia Tech and played 11 seasons in the NBA. What's amazing about the team is that few names jump off the page from Camden High that were on the roster that year a true testament to how well head coach Clarence Turner's team was run. Keatts, Howard and West were all inducted into the Hargrave Hall of Fame in 2011. The Patrick School finished No. The Baltimore Sun said that the Calvert Hall 1981-82 team was the greatest in BCL history on the league's 50th anniversary. 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. East Chicago Washington High averaged 95 points per game during the 1970-71 season, led by a bevy of future pro and college talent. 5 overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft. Can you imagine the sheer terror of trying to guard "The Human Highlight Film" in high school? Yates set a national record by scoring at least 100 points in 15 consecutive games. 1 or No. But the spirits are high as the Warriors turn their sites on the postseason. 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. Articles Blogs East Exclusive FAB 50 High School High School Videos Midwest Profiles South Uncategorized West. John Thompson became much more well-known as one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all time. Dantley, 6-foot-6, and Carr, 6-7, absolutely terrorized opponents, and Wooten was a master at getting the most out of them. Key players: Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr., Stephen Van Treese, Damian Windham. Best full decade: 1970s, appeared in 100% of polls, only program . Proviso East's legendary early 1990s teams weren't the last time multiple NBA players would be on the roster, either. Visit Our Patreon Page to Create Your Own All-Time Fantasy Teams and See Other Bonus Material . 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. 1 overall in the 2003 NBA draft, SVSM has won five more state titles, in 20009, 2011, 2017, 2018 and 2021. Howard Porter went on to become a three-time All-American at Villanova and led his team to the NCAA championship game against UCLA in 1971, where he was named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player despite losing in the title game. Dajuan Wagner's son, D.J. Valentine played 10 seasons in the NBA, while Carr played 16 seasons. One decade later, another great player took center stage and led Marion to a state championship when Zach Randolph helped the school win the 1998 title. 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. In front of 11,522 fans, future Illinois star Frank Williams guided them to the 65-62 win. Bobby Hurley went on to win two national championships at Duke in 1991 and 1992. You can lose early, but you can't lose late. Key players: Avery Bradley, Tristan Thompson, Cory Joseph. You're not reading that wrong. The Patrick School did everything it could to win a national championship in 2007 but came up just short at No. Key players: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Leonard Bennett, Dwayne Davis. 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. 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