Greatest High School Basketball Teams of All Time

Every state has its high school basketball legends. Players and teams so great they took up permanent space in the memories of basketball fans.
Some of those teams were even better than that. Collectively, they became legends who burnished their legacies with undefeated seasons, state championships and, in some cases, national championships.
These are the greatest high school basketball teams of all time, with just one rule. One school, one spot.
75. 2008-09 Bloomington South High School

Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Record: 26-0
Head coach: J.R. Holmes
Key players: Dee Davis, Jordan Hulls, Matt Carlino, Erik Fromm
Bottom Line: 2008-09 Bloomington South High School

Bloomington South is a great example of a team that didn’t necessarily need to overpower teams with size to win a lot of games, going undefeated and winning a coveted Indiana state championship.
Bloomington South had two 6-foot guards who went on to play professional basketball, Jordan Hulls and Dee Davis, along with USA Today Coach of the Year J.R. Holmes on the bench.
Holmes broke the Indiana high school career wins record with his 807th win in 2019 but didn’t stop there. In April 2021, at the end of his 52nd year as a high school basketball coach, he was named the AT&T National Coach of the Year.
74. 1927-28 Ashland High School

Location: Ashland, Kentucky
Record: 37-0
Head coach: Jimmy Anderson
Key players: Ellis Johnson, Gene Strother
Bottom Line: 1927-28 Ashland High School

The oldest team on this list gets the most basketball-crazy state in the country’s foot in the door with Kentucky, where Ashland High School went undefeated and won a national championship in 1928.
Now known as Blazer High, it is still the only high school from Kentucky to win a national championship in boys basketball, where it capped off the year with a 15-10 win over Canton (Illinois) High at the National Interscholastic Tournament in Chicago.
Ellis Johnson was the star for Ashland and went on to become the first All-American for legendary head coach Adolph Rupp at the University of Kentucky while also starring in football, baseball, and track and field.