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unusual facts about high school basketball



Elite Eight

Like "March Madness," the phrase "Elite Eight" originally referred to the Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship, the single-elimination high school basketball tournament run by the Illinois High School Association.


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Bacari Alexander

Alexander was born in Detroit and played high school basketball at Detroit Southwestern High School.

Berkley High School

Bruce Flowers, All-American High School basketball player, followed Notre Dame college career with brief NBA season with Cleveland.

Brandon Rush

Rush played high school basketball at Westport High School in Missouri and Mt. Zion Christian Academy in Durham, North Carolina.

Brett Blizzard

Currently serves as an analyst for "Full Court Press," a high school basketball highlight show on WWAY NewsChannel 3 in Wilmington, NC.

Celester Collier

The Bowie High School basketball team was chosen to act in the film and Collier was the head coach for Shawn Ashmore's team in the movie.

Condredge Holloway

In 2010, he was selected to the 1970s all-decade team of Madison County, Alabama, high school basketball players by The Huntsville Times.

Darnell Lazare

Lazare played his high school basketball for coach Kenny Almond at Woodlawn High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

De'Mon Brooks

Brooks, a 6'7" forward born in the U. S. state of Georgia, played high school basketball at Hopewell High School in Huntersville, North Carolina.

Fair Lawn High School

Hubie Brown (born 1933), former NBA basketball coach, who coached the Fair Lawn High School basketball team in the 1960s.

Frido Frey

Art Modell described him as "one of the best high-school basketball players in the city".

Greg Stiemsma

Stiemsma played his high school basketball for Randolph High School in Randolph, Wisconsin.

IHSAA Men's Basketball Championship

The Indiana High School Men's Basketball Tournament, organized by the IHSAA, is widely believed to be the most popular and prestigious of any state high school basketball tournament.

Jack Lengyel

On January 12, 2008, seven members of a high school basketball team from Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada and their coach's wife were killed in a highway crash when the 15-seat van they were traveling in collided with a tractor-trailer while returning from a game in Moncton in snowy conditions.

Jamal Abu-Shamala

Abu-Shamala went to Shakopee High School in Shakopee, Minnesota and in 2005 won the class AAA state high school basketball championship.

Jelani Gardner

After playing high school basketball at St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California, Gardner played college basketball at the University of California.

Josh A. Moore

Played for legendary coach Bob Hurley at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey for three seasons, where he won a USA Today high school basketball national championship in 1996 and was a two time New Jersey boy's basketball All State selection.

Landon Milbourne

After playing high school basketball at St. Francis in Roswell, Georgia, and at Oak Hill Academy, in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, Milbourne played college basketball at the University of Maryland, with the Maryland Terrapins.

Marcelinho Huertas

After playing high school basketball at Coppell High School in Coppell, Texas, he made his senior men's team debut in the 2001–02 season, with the senior men's team of FMU São Paulo.

Marcus Jordan

Marcus Jordan originally played high school basketball with his older brother Jeffrey Jordan at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois.

Marshall Plumlee

Marshall Plumlee played all four years of his high school basketball career at Christ School in Arden, North Carolina, and was the only Plumlee brother to win four state championships during his time there.

Nathan Cook

He played Milton Reese, one of the high school basketball players, on The White Shadow (1978–1980).

Nigeria women's national basketball team

Team athletes Itoro Umoh-Coleman and Joanne Aluka both played high school basketball at Hephzibah High School prior to playing together for Nigeria.

Omm'A Givens

Omm'A Givens is a former high school basketball All-American, and center on the 1995 UCLA Bruins men's basketball national championship team.

Pallophotophone

Among the material on the surviving reels is the earliest known recording of the NBC chimes, a broadcast of a high school basketball match (believed to be the world's second-oldest recording of a sports broadcast) and a historic 1929 recording of the 82-year-old Thomas Edison, with Henry Ford and President Herbert Hoover, speaking on a broadcast commemorating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the incandescent light bulb.

Pat Garrity

At Lewis-Palmer High School in Monument, Colorado, Garrity was a three time All-State selection and part of the 1994 Class 4A State of Colorado High School Basketball Championship team.

Pitman High School

Joe Crispin (born 1979, Class of 1997), Gloucester County's all-time leading scorer for boys' high school basketball (2,651 career points) who played in the NBA for the Lakers and Suns.

Quincy Pondexter

He played high school basketball in Fresno, California at San Joaquin Memorial High School where his father Roscoe and uncle Clifton Pondexter were All-American basketball players themselves and continued their basketball skills at the professional levels.

R. T. Guinn

Guinn was born in Bryan, Texas, and played high school basketball at Cibola High School and Valley High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux finds the former high-school basketball star, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, working a dead-end job (as a Linotype operator at the local printing plant) and approaching middle age in the downtrodden and fictional city of Brewer, Pennsylvania, the place of his birth.

Raymar Morgan

Won the 2005 AND1 High School Basketball Championship in late June, earning MVP honors

Richard R. Lee

Lee is also a director for various TV programs, including Comcast Game of The Weeks High School Basketball and Football games, Contra Costa Television's Ask The Doctor and The Languages of Sound and Movement.

Robert Rothbart

After graduating from the private elementary The Harker School in San Jose, California, Robert has successfully played high school basketball for Saint Francis High School (Mountain View, California), Monta Vista High School (Cupertino, California) and Natomas High School (Sacramento, California).

Roll, Indiana

In 1951, Hoosier Hysteria erupted in the tiny community of Roll, as the Roll Red-Rollers won the Hartford City sectional in the Indiana High School basketball tournament.

Shang Ping

After playing high school basketball at Avondale College in Auckland, New Zealand, Shang played college basketball at Illinois Central Community College from 2005 to 2007, at the University of Nebraska, where he played with the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 2007 to 2008, and at Emporia State University from 2008 to 2009.

Shelden Williams

In 2002, Williams, along with teammates De'Angelo Alexander and Matt Kemp were accused of raping a 19-year old girl in Columbus, while playing in a high school basketball tournament.

Tiny Gallon

He played high school basketball at Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia.

TWC TV

TWC TV also acts as an overflow feed for MPBN during the aforementioned high school basketball tournament and for New England Sports Network when the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins are playing at the same time.

UBC War Memorial Gymnasium

The gymnasium has hosted the likes of the Harlem Globetrotters, the B.C. high school basketball championships, Billy Idol and is the current venue for the finals of all division of the TELUS Basketball Classic.

Vic Obeck

While at NYU, Obeck served as a college and high school basketball color commentator for WPIX; calling games alongside future Basketball Hall of Famer Marty Glickman.

Willard Reaves

Willard's son Ryan Reaves is a professional hockey player and right wing for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League; while other son Jordan played high school basketball in Winnipeg for the Shaftesbury High School Titans, and now plays for the Brandon Bobcats in the Canada West division in the CIS.

WZKY

In 1967, Bob Harris, now voice of the Duke Blue Devils, offered to take over the job of announcing West Stanly High School football games for WZKY, though his only experience had been as a student announcer for Albemarle High School (North Carolina) Albemarle High School basketball.