High School: DeMatha Catholic High School (Hyattsville)
Overall Record: 1,274-192 (.869)
State Championships: 22 (1961-66, 1968, 1970-73, 1978, 1979, 1981-84, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002)
Bottom line: Arguably the most well known high school basketball coach of all time, DeMatha Catholic’s Morgan Wooten coached at the school from 1957 to 2002 and won almost 90 percent of his games including 22 state championships, 33 WCAC championships, and five national championships.
Wooten first made national headlines at DeMatha with one of the most stunning upsets in high school basketball history in 1961, when his team defeated New York City’s Power Memorial Academy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor), ending their 71-game win streak.
In 2000, Wooten became just the third high school coach inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. He died in 2020 at 88 years old.