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Other Links > Basketball > Top Ranked Basketball Players by High School . The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time from Illinois High Schools . Notes: This is a list of the greatest pro players who finished high school in this state. What players did in high school or college does not factor into this list. Ranking Explanation
Mar 3, 2017 · Sports. 100 best Illinois high school basketball players ever. John Lee / Chicago Tribune. 1 of 45. Cook averaged 22 points, 10.2 rebounds and 3.4 blocks as a senior, when he was named Mr ...
Mar 9, 2023 · “The greatest Illinois high school player I ever saw in person was (Chicago King’s) JAMIE BRANDON. It was the city championship game against Westinghouse during the ’89-90 season.
When Cummings began high school at Harlan, on Chicago's South Side, basketball wasn't in his plans. Then, according to the two-time NBA All-Star, he shot up in height from 5-8 to 6-4.
- Chicago (Farragut) vs. Harvey (Thornton), Class Aa Quarterfinal
- East St. Louis (Lincoln) vs. Chicago (King), Class Aa Championship
- Chicago (Manley) vs. Effingham, Class Aa Championship
- Chicago (Westinghouse) vs. Springfield (Lanphier), Class Aa Championship
- Chicago (Simeon) vs. Aurora West, Class Aa Semifinal
This game might have the most athletic talent on one court in the IHSA archives, featuring a matchup of future Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett and NBA mainstay Melvin Ely at center. (Farragut paired Garnett with high-school legend Ronnie Fields, whose path to the NBA was derailed, but put together a career in the CBA and overseas.) Thornton assembled a...
The most points ever scored in a Class AA tournament; the most points ever in a Class AA championship game; and a one-man show from Marcus Liberty, who would go on to play with Nick Anderson (from Simeon), Kendall Gill (from Rich Central in Olympia Fields), and Kenny Battle (Aurora West) on the 1988-1989 Flying Illini. (The only other player on Kin...
Uwe Blab! It's hard to forget a seven-footer named Uwe Blab. He showed pretty good moves for a guy who'd learned about basketball several years before from the movie The Absent-Minded Professor. He didn't like basketball all that much; he's now a software developer.
Westinghouse, alma mater of Eddie Johnson and Hersey Hawkins, wins its first state championship in school history, surviving a 17-point comeback engineered by one of the all-time great athletes to play basketball in the state, Andre Iguodala, who may pick up a championship ring this season for the Golden State Warriors.
The second-to-last game in the life of Benji Wilson, who was killed just before his senior season at Simeon—for which he was considered the preseason number-one player in the nation. (Had Wilson lived, it's possible he could have played with Kenny Battle, Aurora West's star, on the Flying Illini.) Instead, Nick Anderson, Juwan Howard, Derrick Rose,...
HSBBALL.COM - Home. 2024-2025 SEASON OPENS ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25. The source for Chicago area boys high school basketball scores, schedules, standings, and more. Twitter: @hsbballjg. Email: hsbballjg@gmail.com. (Note: Information for the Chicago Area + includes all IHSA full-member schools in the northeast part of Illinois bounded.
The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) celebrated 100 years of the IHSA State Tournament in the 2006-07 season. A list of "100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament" was assembled on December 14, 2005. [1][2] Throughout the state, 281 individuals were nominated and were chosen by geographic region and tournament era. [3]
