Some players are just a flash in the pan. [16][17], Wootten died January 21, 2020, at his home in Maryland, at the age of 88. Try it by downloading the free app today. "[9] In 2000, Wootten became the third high school coach to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame,[1][10] and the first to be admitted solely as a high school coach. 36 pts vs. Brian Magid, Loyola Balt 1974 40 pts. Johnson's talent didn't translate well to big-time college basketball. Anwar McQueen St Albans vs Episcopal 1992 High school: Pawnee High School (Pawnee, Oklahoma). He played his final two years of college basketball in a backcourt alongside Bjorn Broman and averaged a career-high 12.4 points as a senior in 2017-18. Dynamite in transition where he and Keith Bogans made many a highlight type play. Corner Canyon (5 for the Fight Hoopfest), Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association. Minden High's Jackie Moreland, a 6-foot-7 guard/forward, was one of the most highly recruited players in the country in the 1950s a recruitment that saw almost every school he visited end up getting nailed for recruiting violations. ), 4 Times (Tourn.) Known as an incredibly gifted player who enjoyed success on every level until injuries ended his career. Austin Carr, Mackin vs. Georgetown Frosh Feb 27 1965 Hall of Fame center Robert Parish first gained his iconic No. Roger is part of perhaps the greatest class of players to ever come through Washington D.C. That season- 1998-99- featured more high-level players than any in recent memory. d2luZG93Ll9kaWRBc3luY0luamVjdEdvb2dsZVRhZ01hbmFnZXIpIHJldHVy The 64 wing guard was equally good off the court where he maintained over a 3.0 GPA and is also an accomplished piano player. The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA) Board of Control met on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at the BWI Marriott. This mention of this name causes many of us to experience a lot of different emotions. Girard averaged 48.6 points as a senior and led Glen Falls High to its first state championship. It shouldnt be much of a surprise that top-seeded Park and No. Click on this photo for more information on the presentation as Bryn's Mawr's Head Coach, Kate Brendler makes the presentation. 35 pts. Regional Semifinals - Monday, February 27 (Girls) / Tuesday, February 28 (Boys) (Regional Sites) Regional Finals - Wednesday, March 1 (Girls) / Thursday, March 2 (Boys) (Regional Sites) - Tickets State Quarterfinals - Friday, March 3 and Saturday, March 4 (Regional Sites) - Tickets 2. Duce Smith, Fairmont Hgts. Tommy Murr averaged over 40 points per game his last two seasons, both times leading the nation in scoring while playing for his father, Steve Murr, at Lindsay Lane Christian Academy. Lyndon Debellotte, Cardoza HS (L 71-78) Woodson, 1983 The next time the defense decided to double-team him. He was North Carolinas most outstanding player in their run to the Final 4. cyd9KTt2YXIgZj1kLmdldEVsZW1lbnRzQnlUYWdOYW1lKHMpWzBdLAogICAg One of the many players hailing from Louisiana high schools to make this list, Harold Ray Strother was as talented as almost any of those. Karil Apostleov, The Heights High (L 104-1065 O.T.s) Pallotti High, Feb. 1995 (4 min. [18][19], In 1992, Wootten wrote a manual for coaching, Coaching Basketball Successfully, with co-author Dave Gilbert. Jahnathan Lamothe scores 57 points in win. 45 pts. In the NBA, he backed up Bill Russell on one of the NBAs all-time great teams. Clarke transferred to Butler for his final collegiate season and led the team in scoring as a senior. Artie Simpson Chamberlain vs. Ballou 1974 Basketball scorers start young. DeMatha Catholic High School is a four-year Catholic high school for boys located in Hyattsville, Maryland, . Ranks No. Larry Bird was so anxious to play with Bias that he was going to report early to work out with him. Gerke's 35 points in the state championship game are still the Class A record. Get a yearly subscription for $99.95/year or $9.95/month. A lottery pick in the NBA Draft and one of the best players in todays NBA. Bottom line: Few college basketball watching experiences in recent memory have been as satisfying as watching 5-foot-9 former Pawnee High star Keiton Page dice up defenses for Oklahoma State for four seasons. Certain Data by Sportradar and Stats Perform, PCEtLSBCZWdpbiBjb21TY29yZSBUYWcgLS0+Cgo8c2NyaXB0PgogIHZhciBf [21][22], Wootten appeared in the 2020 documentary Basketball County along DeMatha alums Victor Oladipo and Adrian Dantley. He finished his career No. 9 overall pick in the 1974 NBA draft, and played almost a decade of professional basketball. dHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRm1hcnlsYW5kdmFyc2l0eS5yaXZhbHMuY29tJTJGbmV3 He had just been picked with the 3rd pick in the NBA draft by the Boston Celtics. [4][6], UCLA basketball coach John Wooden (19102010) described his admiration for Wootten when he said, "I know of no finer coach at any level high school, college or pro. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Mount Saint Joseph However, we are certain that total has long since been surpassed. John Sleepy Austin, DeMatha vs. Bishop Loughlin 1962 Went to Kansas on scholarship. Mike Mundy, Springbrook vs. Gaitherburg 1985 These prodigies are so unique that when we catch them early on, it's always more special than if we discover them with the rest of the masses. Maryland High School Basketball Scores | Live Scoreboard | MaxPreps Basketball - Feb, 27 Schedule & Scores Maryland Sun, Feb 26 Today Tue, Feb 28 October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Jalen Smith, '18 - NCAA Maryland Terrapins St. Frances Panthers Devin Gray, '91 - NBA Sacramento Kings, San Antonio Spurs, and Houston Rockets. 35 pts. 2023 MPSSAA Boys Basketball State Championships (Maryland) Class 1A Class 2A Class 3A Class 4A 53 pts. Seas. At Notre Dame, he led the Fighting Irish to an NIT title. Walt led Crossland to Cole Field House to play for the state championship multiple times. His vertical jump is off the charts, and he blows by defenders with the greatest of ease. Visit ESPN to view the Maryland Terrapins team stats for the 2022-23 season. 37 pts. The 247Sports Composite is a proprietary algorithm that compiles rankings and ratings listed in the public domain by the major media recruiting services, creating the industry's most comprehensive and unbiased prospect and team rankingsMore Info, Powered by innovative technology products, 247Sports employs a staff of more than 50 full time recruiting reporters and evaluators that rank and compile data on the nation's elite high school recruitsMore Info. He chose the basketball path, but some say at 64 he wouldve also had a dynamite football future. Went on to be a head coach in the NBA with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Join our linker program. Health and Safety Recommended Forms and Resources, Supplements & Performance-Enhancing Substances, 2020 Conference Registration Packet (N/A), College Eligibility & Recruiting Webinars, MPSSAA Field Hockey Rules Interpreter Zone, MPSSAA Cross Country/Track Rules Interpreter Zone, MPSSAA Boys Lacrosse Rules Interpreter Zone, MPSSAA Girls Lacrosse Rules Interpreter Zone, MPSSAA 2022 Football Regular Season Final Point Standings, Welcome to the 2022-2023 MPSSAA Interscholastic Year, Know Your 2022-2023 NFHS Sport Rule Change, NFHS Yearlong Celebration of 50th Anniversary of Title IX Features Maryland Trailblazers, MPSSAA OFFICIALS APPRECIATION WEEK April 4-9. For the 1999-2000 season, he was the NBAs co-rookie of the year. High school: Wellsville-Middletown High School (Wellsville, Missouri). Watch Events 550 Live Search by typing your school, event, association. Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Anders Broman was the first of two siblings to light up the Minnesota state basketball record books with younger brother Bjorn Broman following directly behind him. Strother's career after lighting up the scorebooks for Plainview High was truly defined by the era. Fred Hetzel, Landon HS vs. Bladensburg December 10 1960 Virginia Boys High School Basketball Single-Game Scoring Records . Wootten and his son both led one of the largest camps in the United States , Coach Wootten's Basketball Camp, held in Frostburg, Maryland at Frostburg State University and at Bishop O'Connell High School. Conference Champion: All rights reserved. When it got under :10, he made his move. It was the 78th consecutive win for Snook and part of a 90-game winning streak. Briley returned to Midland as its head boys basketball coach in 2004, led them to a state runner-up finish in 2010 and a state championship in 2014. His sparkling senior year led to an NBA career, where he has played for multiple teams. 1 ranked team in 1981-82. Honored as both the National High School and College player of the year. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. ), 4 Times (Tourn. Craig Davis, Peary HS vs. Springbrook March 1, 1974 At Maryland he had an incredible run of _ straight 30+ points per game in the ACC. Learn more and register. bS9ucy5odG1sP2lkPUdUTS1NRjZQWFhDJmFtcDtndG1fYXV0aD1LaEg2aGVD He scored 1320 on his SAT. School leaders and record-holders are compiled from our own available season, career, and game-level player data. Wootten was born in Durham, North Carolina on April 21, 1931, the son of a United States Navy officer Charles Thomas Wootten, Jr. and grandson of photographer Bayard Wootten. All-time scoring leaders come in all shapes and sizes, as evidenced by the MaxPreps list of the top all-time high school boys basketball scoring leaders from each state. Played for the Washington Capitols 1950-51, Syracuse Nationals 1952-58, and Detroit Pistons 1958-60. Basketball State Archives. They are not encompassing of the school's entire statistical history, so please arrive at conclusions carefully. An amazingly accurate shooter, Bullock once hit 20-20 free throws in an upset of nationally ranked St. Johns Prospect Hall. Amaker was known as the consummate point guard, and was often referred to as a coach on the floor. An unheralded basketball player coming out of high school, he grew 7 inches while at the Naval Academy. Instead, he opted to make money and play for the Wilkes-Barre Barons of the Eastern Basketball League and averaged 16.0 points over two seasons. 5A - Posted after the tournament. 61 pts. Won an Olympic gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics, Spingarn, Syracuse, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks. Tre Kelley, Dunbar High v. School Without Walls, 2001-02 (6'1" Jr.) When he was finally eligible, he was drafted by the NBA's St. Louis Hawks in 1963 but never played for them. Todd Briley was a two-time Class B Player of the Year for Midland High School, where he averaged 33.6 points as a senior in 1994-95. Procell also set the national single-season scoring record as a senior in 1969-70 with 3,173 points as he averaged 47.6 points. Possibly the greatest pure shooter on this list, who knows how high Kittrell High's Jim "Monk" Montgomery could have seen his point total rise if he'd played in the era of the 3-point line or hadn't missed 20 games due to punishment for academics, as he claimed in 1987. Carlton Carrington St. Frances Academy (Baltimore, MD) In college he was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated as part of the countrys greatest guard combo. Please click on Autumn's photo for more information on this week's IAAM selection for Athlete of the Week. 1. Robert Woodard's explosive scoring at Houlka High School ended up being the opposite of the kind of player he would be in college, where he carved out a career at Mississippi State as a tough-nosed defender who only averaged 4.5 points. Kellii Taylor, Archbishop Carroll High v. Oak Hill Academy (Va.), 1993-94 (6'0" Sr.) Division regular season champion The other half of Good Counsels dynamic duo, and at a muscular 64 Chris Monroe backed down from nobody. Malcolm Jolly,School Without Walls vs. Roosevelt 2010 The 65 guard led DeMatha to a WCAC and City title as a junior. (MPSSAA) playoffs in our bracket system. The WCAC was the best high school league in the country, as at least 3 teams were nationally ranked. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. Tommy Amaker is the pride of legendary area coach Red Jenkins. High school: Florien High School (Florien, Louisiana). That's where Drew's career becomes one of basketball's cautionary tales. Anders Broman averaged 47.3 points his senior season and played his first two college basketball seasons at South Dakota State before transferring to Winthrop. A Hall of Fame college coach, Thompson won a national championship with Georgetown in 1984. 3. See top plays & highlights of the best high school sports He still holds the Cap Classic record for most rebounds in a game. Pure and simple, Adrian Branch was a superstar. 53 pts. Drew had a severe cocaine addiction throughout his career, and after back-to-back cocaine arrests in 1986, he was the first player given the still-in-place, two-year drug ban instituted by NBA commissioner David Stern. That night he gave a performance I will never forget. These prodigies are so unique that when we catch them early on, it's always more special than if we discover them with the rest of the masses. McMillen's life ended up being about much more than basketball, although he was a two-time All-American at Maryland, the No. 47 pts. In 134 playoff games he averaged 27.0 points and 12.9 rebounds. 50 pts. 41 pts. cyUyRmRjLWFyZWFzLWdyZWF0ZXN0LWJhc2tldGJhbGwtcGxheWVycyZjNT0x Wootten is one of the individuals memorialized in the ending of the film. He became the head coach at Union Christian Academy in Farmerville, Louisiana, in 2019 and was elected to the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2020. This is the official IAAM athletics website. Some thought he was better than Michael Jordan coming out of college. 37 pts. Harry Todd was a rare three-time All-State selection in Kentucky and named the state's Mr. Basketball as a senior in 1958, when he averaged 30 points and 20 rebounds. He was the No. I.C. A 63 point guard, he was all-pro 9 times with the Philadelphia Warriors, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. When he had the ball, Bogans could score in a variety of ways. The 6-foot-6 forward was picked No. 40 overall in the 2020 NBA draft and averaged 1.5 points in 13 games in his rookie season with the Sacramento Kings. 55 pts. 43 pts.Phil Cranford Fredrick Sasscer vs. Margarent Brent,Feb.1962 Penny Greene, Parkdale HS vs. Anne Arundel 1974 The week of April 18-23, the NFHS will be featuring some of Marylands Trailblazers and moments of magnitude. 48 pts. Harold Rotten, Annandale High (W 83-80O.T.) He led the Stags to five national championships and 33 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC) titles. Leftwich was a member of the greatest high school basketball team to ever play in Washington. At the University of Florida, he was eventually thrown out of school over allegations he bet on games he played in. Bennie Fuller averaged 50.9 points his senior season for Little Rock's Arkansas School for the Deaf, becoming an international hero to hearing-impaired athletes. Greg Jones Cardoza vs. Coolige 1992 2022-23 Men's Basketball Standings Print Choose A Season: 2022-23 Men's Basketball Standings 2021-22 Men's Basketball Standings 2020-21 Men's Basketball Standings Stream high school basketball from Maryland live and on demand via NFHS Network. JyZndG1fcHJldmlldz0nKydlbnYtMScrJyZndG1fY29va2llc193aW49eCc7 He has wonderful hands for a big man. Follow your favorite school's scores, schedules, video highlights, articles and more at sblivesports.com and scorebooklive.com Carl Jackson, TC Williams vs. Marshall 1974, Website design and domain names by register.com. MTk3Nzk4OTI0JmN2PTIuMCZjaj0xJmNzX3VjZnI9MCIgLz4KPC9ub3Njcmlw High school: Snook High School (Snook, Texas). Do you have a blog? Or write about sports? Calvin Gerke was the only starter on his high school team over 5-foot-10 and capped his career by leading Snook to a 52-0 record and Class A state championship in 1965-66. He was at his best in the biggest games. When Lawrence entered the Carrier Dome, he was in range. Morgan Bayard Wootten (April 21, 1931 - January 21, 2020) was an American high school basketball coach for 46 seasons at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland. Postseason invitational champion He was surrounded by his wife Kathy and family. Marty Lentz, Mount Vernon v JEB Stuart, 2/24/1961 . [1][2][3], Wootten enrolled at Montgomery College and in 1951 began coaching baseball, football, and basketball at St. Joseph's Home and School for Boys, an orphanage in Washington, D.C. Verdigris High's Rotnei Clarke and Pawnee High's Keiton Page went back-and-forth in the battle for the Oklahoma state career scoring record as seniors in 2007-08, with Clarke getting the record and the first state championship in school history, as the state championship game was played in front of 13,000 fans. Shields High, John Drew led the school to its first state championship in 1972 before going on to star at Gardner-Webb, where he was an All-American in 1974. High school: J.F. Anybody who saw him from the time he was in high school will tell you that Len Bias got better every year and the sky was the limit. 00 as a high schooler simply because he was the last to show up to get jerseys. Potomac (MD) 89, Notre Dame, San Antonio Spurs, New York Knicks. 35 points Sherman Douglas, Spingarn vs. Dunbar 1985, 50 pts. 48 pts. VE0tTUY2UFhYQycpOwo8L3NjcmlwdD4KPG5vc2NyaXB0Pgo8aWZyYW1lIGhl Howard Fox, Northwestern High, 1968 62 pts. North Dakota School for the Deaf's Steve Blehm ended his career by averaging a then-national record 41.5 points for his career, including an 85-point game as a senior. [1][14], Wootten co-authored two biographies with Bill Gilbert: From Orphans to Champions (1979), and A Coach for All Seasons (1997). [5], Wootten resided in University Park, Maryland with his wife, Kathy, whom he married in 1964. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Calvin Duncan, Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson), 1980-81, 55 pts. 44 pts. It made no difference as Bullock created space with a fake, and then hit a 3 over the double team. He and Sydney Lowe formed the backcourt on both high school and college national championship teams. 40 pts. bjsKICAgICAgICB3W2xdPXdbbF18fFtdO3dbbF0ucHVzaCh7J2d0bS5zdGFy IHMuc3JjID0gImh0dHBzOi8vcy55aW1nLmNvbS9jeC92em0vY3MuanMiOwog Atlanta High went 48-0 on the way to a Class C state championship in 1995-96 behind star guard Derek Smith. Cronk stayed in Alaska and was a college star at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. At 68 he was incredibly versatile as he could play all 5 positions on the floor. 48 pts. 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