Longest Winning Streaks in High School Basketball History

These high school basketball win streaks made history across the U.S.

Longest Winning Streaks in High School Basketball History

There is nothing in sports that feels better than being on a winning streak.

Doesn't matter the sport. Doesn't matter the era.

You absolutely cannot beat the feeling of reeling off win after win. It doesn't take much — just a few games here or there to start those good vibes rolling. Then it's anybody's game after that. A winning streak cures all maladies.

Now, can you imagine not losing a game for years and years? A winning streak that stretches out over multiple seasons? Because that's happened before. And it was glorious.

Here's a look at the longest winning streaks in high school basketball history.

30. Byng High School: 67 Games

Location: Byng, Oklahoma

Streak: 1957-1959

Bottom line: While we all understand record-keeping in the olden days wasn't always top-notch, the mistake that kept Byng High from getting its rightful place in history for decades seems especially egregious. Nuyaka High's 75-game winning streak from 1938 to 1940 was thought to be the longest in Oklahoma history until 1993, when a reporter uncovered a loss by Nuyaka 44 games into its streak and Byng took its rightful place at the top.

27. West Philadelphia High School: 68 Games (Tie)

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Streak: 1976-1978

Bottom line: The star of West Philadelphia High's 68-game winning streak in the late 1970s was 6-foot-7 forward Gene Banks, who was selected to play in the very first McDonald's All-American Game in 1977 and was MVP of the Dapper Dan Classic.

Banks went on to star at Duke, where he led the ACC in scoring as a senior and was also the school's first Black All-American. Banks also played six seasons in the NBA.

27. Bradleyville High School: 68 Games (Tie)

Location: Bradleyville, Missouri

Streak: 1966-1968

Bottom line: Buried deep in the Ozarks, Bradleyville High's win streak began five games into the 1966-1967 season and continued through back-to-back Class S state championships in 1967 and 1968. You know you're good when someone writes a book about your team, which author James L. Combs did with "The Hicks From The Sticks" in 1999.

27. Lawrenceville High School: 68 Games (Tie)

Location: Lawrenceville, Illinois

Streak: 1981-1983

Bottom line: Lawrenceville High won 68 consecutive games and back-to-back Class A state championships in 1982 and 1983 behind one of the state's greatest players in Marty Simmons — known as "Mule" for his ability to put his team on his back. Lawrenceville had back-to-back 34-0 seasons with Simmons leading the way as he scored almost 3,000 career points.

Simmons starred at Evansville in college and eventually served as the head coach for the Aces from 2007 to 2018. He has been the head coach at Eastern Illinois since 2021.

25. Randolph High School: 69 Games (Tie)

Location: Randolph, Wisconsin

Streak: 2001-2005

Bottom line: Legendary Randolph head coach Bob Haffele won 10 state championships in his career and oversaw Randolph's 69-game winning streak. Haffele's star player during the win streak was 6-foot-11 center Greg Stiemsma, who went on to play for the University of Wisconsin and eventually played four seasons in the NBA.

25. Edina High School: 69 Games (Tie)

Location: Edina, Minnesota

Streak: 1965-1968

Bottom line: Edina High won three consecutive state championships from 1966 to 1968 as part of its 69-game winning streak — the only three state titles in school history. Edina was also the first high school team in Minnesota to three-peat.

The star for Edina during its run was 6-foot-8 center Bob Zender, who went 79-1 over three seasons on the varsity and averaged 20.3 points and 9.4 rebounds in state tournament games. Zender played college basketball for Kansas State, where he was the 1970 Big Eight Newcomer of the Year and played in the Elite Eight twice.

24. Sanford High School: 74 Games

Location: Sanford, Colorado

Streak: 2014-2017

Bottom line: Tiny Sanford High in Sanford, Colorado — population: 879 — is home to one of high school basketball's longest winning streaks. Sanford High's 74-game winning streak saw the school win three consecutive Class 2A state championships. Two of those state championships for Sanford came in seasons where it went 27-0.

23. Pima High School: 75 Games

Pima High School Class 2A state champions 2023

Location: Pima, Arizona

Streak: 1969-1973

Bottom line: Head coach Stan Smith's legendary Pima High teams won 75 consecutive games from 1969 to 1973 — teams that were part of a larger dynasty that won six Class 1A state championships in seven seasons. The 1970 state champions for Pima averaged an incredibly 86.6 points per game.

After his coaching career, Smith eventually became the superintendent for the entire Pima School District in 1988.

Pima High ended a 39-year drought with a state championship in 2023.

21. Middletown High School: 76 Games (Tie)

Location: Middletown, Ohio

Streak: 1955-1958

Bottom line: Middletown High dominated high school basketball in the 1940s and 1950s, winning seven state championships from 1944 to 1957, which included its amazing 76-game winning streak from 1955 to 1958. The Middies' seven state titles were the Ohio record until it was snapped by St. Vincent-St. Mary — LeBron James' alma mater — in 2018.

21. Greensboro High School: 76 Games (Tie)

Location: Greensboro, Florida

Streak: 1968-1972

Bottom line: Greensboro head coach Lamar McGlaun led his team to 76 consecutive wins and three consecutive Class C state championships from 1969 to 1971, including a double-overtime win over Port St. Joe Washington in the 1969 state championship game. Greensboro High closed its doors for good in 2004.

William Moody was Greensboro's star player on those state championships teams — he scored 2,668 career points and signed with the University of Florida out of high school.

20. Alsen High School: 79 Games

Location: Alsen, North Dakota

Streak: 1956-1959

Bottom line: Alsen High had back-to-back 34-0 seasons on the way to consecutive Class C state championships in 1957 and 1958, winning 79 games in a row with an enrollment that never passed 40 students on no player on the roster taller than 6-foot for the entirety of its run.

Alsen averaged 75 points per game during its run — almost unheard of for the 1950s — and seven of the 19 players who took the court for Alsen in its run went on to play college basketball. Alsen is the smallest town on this list with a population of just over 100 people.

18. Simmons High School: 80 Games (Tie)

Location: Hollandale, Mississippi

Streak: 1992-1994

Bottom line: The early 1990s were salad days for high school basketball in Mississippi with Simmons High's 80-game winning streak and the nation's No. 1 recruit down the road with Murrah High center Othella Harrington.

18. Middletown High School: 80 Games (Tie)

Location: Middletown, Connecticut

Streak: 1975-1978

Bottom line: Tom LaBella was a starter on the first state championship basketball team for Middletown High in 1964 then returned to his alma mater as a school counselor and basketball coach. LaBella's legacy was defined by the 80-game winning streak that began in the mid-1970s and saw him bring home three consecutive Class M state championships.

17. Calhoun County High School: 81 Games

Location: St. Matthews, South Carolina

Streak: 2005-2008

Bottom line: Calhoun County High set the South Carolina record with its 81-game winning streak from 2005 to 2008 and dominated basketball in the state in the 2000s. Calhoun County won seven state championships in the 2000s, including four consecutive titles from 2006 to 2009.

15. Brewster High School: 82 Games (Tie)

Brewster High's Dick Scott, Dave Smith, Dale Smith

Location: Brewster, Washington

Streak: 1974-1977

Bottom line: In the history of sports predictions, former Brewster High head coach Dick Olson stands in a separate category from the rest.

Following a loss in the 1974 state semifinals, Olson was asked what he thought the potential was for his talented group of underclassmen and he responded by saying he thought they would win 82 straight games because that's how many games they had left in their careers.

Olson nailed it. Brewster reeled off 82 consecutive wins from that point forward and won three consecutive Class B state championships. In 12 seasons as Brewster's coach, Olson went 263-50 and made the state tournament nine times.

15. Lapwai High School: 82 Games (Tie)

Location: Lapwai, Idaho

Streak: 1987-1989

Bottom line: Located on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in northern Idaho, Lapwai High has one of the great high school basketball traditions in the U.S. — seven different head coaches have led the school to state championships.

Never was that dynasty more powerful than in the late 1980s, when Lapwai reeled off 82 consecutive wins under head coach Bruce Crossfield and own three consecutive Class 2A (then A–3) state championships.

Lapwai had another historic winning streak of 62 games that ended in 2023.

14. Powers North Central High School: 84 Games

Location: Powers, Michigan

Streak: 2014-2017

Bottom line: Powers North Central High set the Michigan record for boys or girls with its 84-game winning streak from 2014 to 2017 — a run that included three consecutive Class D state championships. Powers North Central's senior class of 2017 that led the way for the three titles finished with a career record of 108-1.

Powers North Central's star player in that run was 6-foot-6 guard Jason Whitens, who also led his school to a pair of 8-man state championships in football as the team's quarterback. Whitens went on to play basketball for Western Michigan before transferring to Michigan State.

12. Staunton-Lee High School: 85 Games (Tie)

Location: Staunton, Virginia

Streak: 2003-2006

Bottom line: Staunton-Lee High School won 85 games in a row from 2003 to 2006 and was known as Robert E. Lee High during that stretch. Lee won all of those games under legendary coach Paul Hatcher, who won 897 games total in his career and included back-to-back state championships in 2004 and 2005. Lee's winning streak came to an end in the 2006 Class AA state championship game with a loss to Martinsville.

Patrick Hite wrote a book about the streak, "The Staunton Streak: Paul Hatcher's Basketball Dynasty," released in 2016.

12. Saint Louis School: 85 Games (Tie)

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Streak: 1966-1968

Bottom line: Saint Louis School won five state championships from 1957 to 1968 under legendary head coach Walter Wong, including three consecutive AA state titles from 1966 to 1968 as part of its state-record 85-game winning streak. After the 1968 title, Saint Louis wouldn't win another championship until 1986.

11. Snook High School: 90 Games

Location: Snook, Texas

Streak: 1964-1966

Bottom line: In a 19-year stretch from 1965 to 1984, Snook High played in the state championship game 13 times and won 10 state championships — a dynasty so noteworthy it was eventually featured in The New York Times.

No part of Snook's history stands out more than the 90-game winning streak from 1964 to 1966, which included two state championships under coach Jimmy Horn. In a sign of playing in a totally different era, Horn's 1965-66 went a staggering 52-0.

10. Beaufort High School: 91 Games

Location: Beaufort, North Carolina

Streak: 1959-1962

Bottom line: Call it superstition or following a routine or whatever you want — former Beaufort High head coach Thomas McQuaid insisted on doing things the same way each and every time the Seadogs played a game. And it worked to the tune of a 91-game winning streak and three consecutive unbeaten seasons and state championships from 1959 to 1961.

Some of McQuaid's quirks don't seem unreasonable — he wanted the same driver for every game and insisted orange slices were available in the locker room for every game. Some of his other quirks seemed to fall a little more into the mystical realm, like the fact he insisted on wearing the same green suit, green tie and (allegedly) the same pair of socks for every game.

We don't question winners. We just want to know what made them tick.

9. Virginia City High School: 93 Games

Location: Virginia City, Nevada

Streak: 1982-1986

Bottom line: Virginia City set the Nevada record with its 93-game winning streak from 1982 to 1986 and went 117-12 from 1981 to 1987 under head coach Fred Gladding, which included a run of five consecutive state championships.

7. Sibley High School: 100 Games (Tie)

Location: Webster Parish, Louisiana

Streak: 1978-1980

Bottom line: High school basketball in Louisiana was wild back in the day — to the point where Sibley High was able to win 100 consecutive games in a short amount of time because that streak included a national record 56-0 season under head coach Don Stahl in 1979-1980.

At no point did Sibley's streak come closer to ending than in the 1980 state semifinals when Carl Myles hit a baseline jumper at the buzzer to defeat Leonville 57-56.

Sibley's star player, 6-foot-6 forward Willie Jackson, went on to star at Centenary, where he was a three-time TAAC Player of the Year. Jackson was drafted by the Houston Rockets in 1984 and played three seasons in the CBA.

7. Tuscaloosa Academy: 100 Games (Tie)

Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Streak: 1980-1983

Bottom line: Scott Brenizer coached Tuscaloosa Academy for 30 years, from 1977 through 2006, and 13 AISA state championships along with a famous 100-game win streak from 1980 through 1983. What's really wild is Brenizer, who Tuscaloosa Academy named its court after in 2022, had another winning streak of 55 games from 1989 to 1991.

6. Bingham Valley High School: 101 Games

Location: Bingham, Maine

Streak: 1997-2002

Bottom line: Bingham Valley High's winning streak garnered national attention and was featured in Sports Illustrated in 2001 thanks in large part to the fact the Cavaliers never ducked smoke — shortly before SI did its story Bingham Valley (with a town population around 1,200) had beaten the defending large-school champion at Bangor High by 30 points.

Bingham Valley's 101-game winning streak was part of six consecutive state championships and eight consecutive appearances in the state championship game. When the 101-game streak ended in 2002, Bingham Valley rattled off a 47-game winning streak that didn't end until the Class D state championship game in 2004.

5. Palmer High School: 103 Games

Location: Palmer, Iowa

Streak: 1985-1989

Bottom line: Hall of Fame coach Alden Skinner was the man who guided Palmer to an Iowa record 103-game winning streak from 1986 to 1989, which included three consecutive unbeaten seasons and state championships from 1986 to 1989 and didn't end until the state semifinals in 1989 with a loss to Keota, the eventual state champion. Palmer's star player, guard Troy Skinner, went on to play for the University of Iowa.

4. Union Academy of Belleville: 104 Games

Union Academy head coach Tom Murphy in 2022

Location: Belleville, New York

Streak: 1966-1971

Bottom line: Union Academy won five sectional titles over its 104-game winning streak with two different head coaches — Tom Murphy and Steve Van Dusen — with the streak only coming to an end in the 1971 sectional final. Murphy was the coach for the first 83 games of the streak before he left to be the head coach at Hamilton College, where he remained for 34 seasons.

Members of the team, along with Murphy, held a reunion in 2022.

3. Wahoo High School: 114 Games

Location: Wahoo, Nebraska

Streak: 1988-1992

Bottom line: Wahoo High's 114-game winning streak stretched out over five seasons and saw the school win four Class B state championships and didn't end until the 1992 state semifinals with a loss to Ogallala. Wahoo outscored opponents by an average of 36 points during the streak and had some familiar victims, defeating Pius X four times, all in the state tournament, and defeating Ashland-Greenwood a whopping nine times during the streak.

2. Georgia Christian School: 129 Games

Location: Valdosta, Georgia

Streak: 1979-1984

Bottom line: The Georgia Christian Generals reeled off the nation's second-longest winning streak from 1979 to 1984 but it was far from the first time the school experienced basketball success — they won the school's first state title in basketball in 1949 when they were still part of Georgia's public school system.

Georgia Christian's 129-game winning streak included five state champoinships in a row from 1980 to 1984, with two more state titles coming in 1988 and 2000.

1. Passaic High School: 159 Games

Location: Passaic, New Jersey

Streak: 1919-1925

Bottom line: What's probably even more impressive about Passaic High's 159-game winning streak is that it was part of an even larger basketball dynasty in which coach Ernest Blood's "Wonder Teams" went 200-1 from 1914 to 1925. You don't want to say a record will never be broken … but this one is closing in on its 100th birthday. Blood was considered a revolutionary during his time on the bench because he — gasp — asked his players not to smoke or drink during the season because it impacted their physical health.

Blood was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1960, which was just the second year of the Hall's existence.