Highest scoring high school basketball games

Ironically, Stepp did not lead the nation when he averaged Stepp had a career high of 75 points in one game and played college basketball at Eastern Kentucky. According to a story in the Williamson Daily News in , Stepp has continued to be active playing basketball, despite losing several fingers on one hand and breaking his back in two places during an automobile accident. According to an Orlando Sentinel story , Benjamin left Jones amid reports of falsified transcripts that allowed him to be eligible.

Following his senior year at CFA, Benjamin enrolled at Auburn, but was dismissed from the team for theft charges. Benjamin bounced around to three other colleges before being arrested for selling drugs to an undercover police officer in He did so on Jan. Fuller set the national scoring record for season average that year with D , The first player to ever average over 50 points per game, Hyde set the record in with 1, points in 28 games while leading Onida to a Class B state championship.

A 6-foot-5 center, Hyde reportedly had 42 offers coming out of high school, but chose to play at South Dakota State. Drafted by the St. Louis Hawks, Hyde's basketball career ended due to a back injury. Photo courtesy of Andrew Chiu. His He attended the University of Maryland and earned a silver medal in the Olympics. He's known now as the coach of the Miami Country Day girls basketball team, which won a Class 3A state championship in Florida last year and repeated as champions two weeks ago.

Miami Country Day was ranked No. Blehm's career scoring average of Blehm also holds the state record with 85 points in one game. Note: Some stories have reported that Wilt Chamberlain averaged However, according to Ted Silary, a longtime Philadelphia sports writer, Chamberlain averaged Chamberlain did average Breaking down the best potential candidate and a few alternatives for the seven current head coach openings in the NFL.

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Should the Broncos interview any of these coaches? Congressman and was the chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports from to Bottom line: Mike Cronk has become much more well-known for his heroics during the mass shooting in Las Vegas during the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival , in which 60 people were killed and hundreds more injured by a gunman. Cronk was a high school basketball star at tiny Northway School in Alaska in the s, where he averaged over 30 points and 20 rebounds per game for his entire career.

Cronk stayed in Alaska and was a college star at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. One of the greatest players in Alabama high school basketball history, Lance Weems played for his father, Jerry Weems, at Clay County High and won back-to-back state championships and back-to-back Class B Player of the Year honors. Weems was ahead of the game when it came to the offensive end, which was obvious during his college career at Auburn. Weems' records for career 3-pointers and single-season 3-pointers stayed in place for 23 years until they were broken by Bryce Brown in Bottom line: Few college basketball watching experiences in recent memory have been as satisfying as watching 5-foot-9 former Pawnee High star Keiton Page dice up defenses for Oklahoma State for four seasons.

Despite his size, Page was one of the most highly recruited players in Oklahoma high school history after winning two Class 2A state championships. Page also delivered in the Big He finished his career No.

One of the more enigmatic big-time college basketball players of the late s, Teddy Dupay was a big-time high school basketball star at Mariner High and won Florida's Mr. Dupay, a McDonald's All-American, averaged At the University of Florida, he was eventually thrown out of school over allegations he bet on games he played in. Verdigris High's Rotnei Clarke and Pawnee High's Keiton Page went back-and-forth in the battle for the Oklahoma state career scoring record as seniors in , with Clarke getting the record and the first state championship in school history, as the state championship game was played in front of 13, fans.

Clarke continued to light it up in college. He set school and SEC records at the University of Arkansas with 51 points and 13 3-pointers in a season-opening win over Alcorn State in Clarke transferred to Butler for his final collegiate season and led the team in scoring as a senior. Calvin Gerke was the only starter on his high school team over 5-foot and capped his career by leading Snook to a record and Class A state championship in It was the 78th consecutive win for Snook and part of a game winning streak.

Gerke's 35 points in the state championship game are still the Class A record. Northern Bedford High's A. Nastasi broke Tom McMillen's year-old state career scoring record in , when he averaged Our research shows us that Nastasi is the only player on this list who ended up playing Division I in a different sport other than basketball.

He played wide receiver for West Virginia and led the Mountaineers and was third in the Big East with 42 receptions as a junior in North Dakota School for the Deaf's Steve Blehm ended his career by averaging a then-national record There, he was the team MVP in and Possibly the greatest pure shooter on this list, who knows how high Kittrell High's Jim "Monk" Montgomery could have seen his point total rise if he'd played in the era of the 3-point line — or hadn't missed 20 games due to punishment for academics, as he claimed in Monk was already famous by the time he left Kittrell High and was poised for college and NBA stardom.

He started his first two seasons at Auburn before he was kicked off the team and out of school for drinking alcohol. He never transferred to another school despite offers and owned a bar in Murfreesboro, Tennessee — Monk's — for decades. Playing for legendary coach Willie Averett at J. Shields High, John Drew led the school to its first state championship in before going on to star at Gardner-Webb, where he was an All-American in That's where Drew's career becomes one of basketball's cautionary tales.

The 6-foot-6 forward was picked No. Drew had a severe cocaine addiction throughout his career, and after back-to-back cocaine arrests in , he was the first player given the still-in-place, two-year drug ban instituted by NBA commissioner David Stern. Critics of Bobby Joe Douglas and his scoring records would be best-served to remember that his main rival in high school and the player he went up against and sometimes got the best of the most was Summerfield High forward and future Hall of Famer Karl Malone.

Douglas averaged It shouldn't still surprise us when we see these kind of numbers go into the record books, but it always does. Atlanta High went on the way to a Class C state championship in behind star guard Derek Smith. He averaged in double-digit scoring each of his first three seasons, including a career-high Robert Woodard's explosive scoring at Houlka High School ended up being the opposite of the kind of player he would be in college, where he carved out a career at Mississippi State as a tough-nosed defender who only averaged 4.

Woodard II was selected No. Wayland High's Kelly Coleman averaged He also owns state tournament single-game records for points 68 and rebounds He was ranked the top high school basketball player in the nation in , ahead of future Hall of Famers Jerry West and Oscar Robertson, but was kicked out of West Virginia for taking a car, clothes and money from boosters before he could play a game.

Coleman became an All-American at Kentucky Wesleyan and played three years of pro basketball after being picked No. House's prep career was something of an oddity. He played for three different high schools and scored over 60 points four times. His propensity to not stick it out seemed to translate to the college level as well.

He held the Alabama state career scoring record for almost 20 years after he graduated in , averaging over 40 points as a sophomore and junior and Monceaux also did something few players on this list seemed interested in — he passed the ball and was just the third player in state history to collect over 1, career assists.

Monceaux played college basketball at Liberty, where he averaged a career-high 8. He's currently the head boys basketball coach at Springville Alabama High School.