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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.
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 Chicago Public League is PROUD to offer 19 sports to our high school student-athletes. Please review the sports below to find additional IHSA / CPS program information.
- 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,...
Seven players on the roster played high school ball in Illinois, including six former All-Staters, a two-time Mr. Basketball winner and two Sun-Times Player of the Year winners.
Mar 3, 2017 · UPDATED: June 30, 2019 at 3:49 a.m. In its 118-year history, Illinois high school basketball has produced a remarkable bounty of talent. With the IHSA’s tournaments under way, we undertook...
Nov 15, 2021 · The full schedule for the opening week of the season. By Jack Gleason. Nov 15, 2021, 9:13am PDT. Clemente’s Terrell Taylor (33) goes to the basket past Kenwood. Kirsten Stickney/For the Sun ...
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