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Thought For The Day - "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumpts, even though checked by failure....than to rank with those poor spirits that neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.......Theodore Roosevelt
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BASKETBALL COACHES CLINIC SET
A basketball Coaches Clinic will be held September 19, 2010 at Wheeling Jesuit Institution in Wheeling, WV. Outstanding speakers will include: John Chaney, Vivian Stringer, Bob Huggins, Mike Rice, Joe Mihalich and Danny Sancomb. For additional information please visit website http://www.cancerresearchclassic.org/ and click on News and Events on the right side.
SPRING-SUMMER EVENTS ONGOING
My thanks to those that have contributed much of the information shown......Spring/Summer Events
KENTUCKY LOADS UP AGAIN
After having five players selected as lottery picks in the recent NBA draft, the Kentucky Wildcats have loaded up again with several of the nation's top recruits....Kentucky Wildcats
AMES AND CHRIST SCHOOL WIN HOOPSUSA;
HOUSTON YATES TAKES CONSENSUS POLL
All of the High School State Champions have been determined and Ames High School (Iowa) and Arden Christ School (North Carolina) have won the HoopsUSA National Championships. The HoopsUSA ratings consist of two separate polls which separates traditional schools from those not sanctioned by the various states. Meanwhile Houston Yates High School (Texas) garnered enough votes to win my annual Consensus Rating which consist of the most advertised top four polls who blend all schools into one rating. Obviously, as can be noted by checking out the State Champions as they appear on this site, some really good teams were left out of the Top 25 ratings...........Consensus Ranking & HoopsUSA Rankings (Traditional & National)
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EXTRA: HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TOP 25
PREP POLL - ESPN - MAX PREPS - USA TODAY
2009-2010 STATE CHAMPIONS CROWNED
The 2009-2010 High School Basketball has come to an end. State Champions have been crowned across the nation. Here's a look at the winners and runnerup with city, school and final W-L record....State Champions
Note: For more indepth information on every team in the nation and much more, visit MaxPreps.com.
BASKETBALL COACHING CHANGES
NEW COLLEGE COACHES COME ON BOARD
The College Coaching Carousel has cranked up again. Here's the latest...Coaching Carousel
CLARK FRANCIS RECRUITING INFO
Clark Francis with HoopScoop.com works as hard as any recruiting analyst in the country. Unlike Clark and others who do great jobs with their craft, I don't claim to be a recruiting expert, but with his permission, Every now and then I will keep fans up to date through his latest information by showing his top recruiting classes and other data that I might not otherwise show. I highly recommend that everyone visit Clark's site and subscribe to receive his great information.
TOP PLAYERS - Class of 2010 - 2011 - 2012
Top Recruiting Classes - 2010 - 2012
Thirteen Reasons To Subscribe to HoopScoop.com
BILL HODGE HAS GREAT RECRUITING INFO
Basketball and Football news or whatever updated information fans need can be obtained by following Bill Hodge of College Sports Network. See how your favorite college team is progressing in the recruiting wars and find out about next season's top basketball and football prospects and much more......College Recruiting
LAST YEARS BASKETBALL STORIES
RATINGS AND OTHER INFORMATION
WEST WINS ANNUAL
MCDONALDS GAME
HIGH SCHOOL HOOPS HEADLINES
Neumann-Goretti Wins Pennsylvania 3-A Title
After Northland win. Lincoln loses to Jackson
Massillon Jackson Takes Ohio State Crown
L.A. Westchester wins California's top prize
Christ The King crowned New York Champs
2010 MCDONALD'S ALL AMERICAN TEAMS
TOURNAMENT AND EVENTS RESULTS
Outstanding Tournament and Events, many featuring the nation's top teams and players, are being played around the nation. HoopsUSA will make every effort to gather the results and post them soon after the events are completed. So far more than 200 events have been listed. I realize there are many more events that could be listed and I welcome and input and suggestions. Here are the results we have to date....Event Results
ESPN RISE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL INVITATIONAL
This event in my opinion is no more than after the season scrimmages for the teams involved. I won't add the results to the teams W-L record. Findlay Prep (NV) won this event again by defeating Montverde Academy (FL) 59-46.
TOURNAMENT & EVENTS REPORT COMPLETE & READY
The annual HoopsUSA Tournament and Events Report for this year's high school basketball season has been completed and mailed out to subscribers. Sixty two pages of information for hundreds of events are included. The publication is recognized nationwide as the finest report of it's kind and has been called the Bible of High School Tournaments and Events. Each copy is bound and personalized. Seeing players in their own team environment against the nation's top players is the best way for college coaches to choose the players that best fit into their system and fans enjoy watching the coaches and all the top stars perform. If you have not ordered do it now. You can pay on line here at this website by clicking Tournaments and Events on the left. Just create a password and use whatever credit card you want to use. Don't wait, order now! For more order information on the report click here...T & E Report
WHAT TEAMS GOT THE BEST OF THE NBA DRAFT?
The future NBA Champions could be the determine with the annual NBA Draft. Here's a look at this season's top players who were taken in this year's draft.....NBA Draft
RATINGS: WHAT THE HECK ARE
THESE GUYS THINKING ABOUT??
All this season I have listed a link to all the separate polls in this section....but no longer! You can see that information on the Consensus Rating which HoopsUSA is no longer a part of. I went along with being in the Consensus Rating for most of the season but I now refuse to be part of something I adamantly and completely disagree with. Can you believe a new school with only eight students, all basketball players, is their new National Champion?....Complete Article - HoopsUSA and Consensus Ratings
TARHEELS WIN NCAA MENS TITLE
CONNECTICUT WOMEN WIN AGAIN
FINDLAY PREP ENDS OAK HILL STEAK
Findlay Prep of Henderson, a school with only eight students, all basketball players, won the National Polls National Championship with a 74-66 victory over Oak Hill Academy of Mouth of Wilson, Virginia....Findlay Prep - An Opinion
WESTCHESTER (CA), FINDLAY PREP (NV),
OAK HILL (VA) & TILTON (NH) WIN TITLES
The season is now over around the nation and the three HoopsUSA High School National Champions have been decided. Los Angeles (CA) Westchester overcame two early losses to finish 35-2 to win the Traditional School National Championship. Henderson (NV) Findlay Prep went undefeated at 33-0 to win the Consensus Rating, but the team they defeated in their last game, Mouth of Wilson (VA) Oak Hill Academy who finished 40-1, was given the HoopsUSA "National" Schools title. Tilton (NH) Tilton Prep Academy finished 29-2 and won the Prep School Division National Championship.
2008-2009 STATE CHAMPIONS
All the State Champions and Runnersup have now been decided. Each State Champion and Runner-Up, both boys and girls, are now listed. Max Preps (G-B) and Rivals have now caught up with my idea and they have done a good job as well but of course they have enormous resources which I do not. All the finalists are shown with their final won-loss records and the city the teams are from. Hopefully my readers will appreciate my effort and be pleased having all the state results in one place rather than searching everywhere trying to get them. Here is a detailed list of champions and runners-up for each state..... AL-CO-CT-ID-IL-MD-MA-NE-NV-NY-NC-PA-RI-TX-UT-WY
VACCARO AGREES WITH HOOPSUSA RATING BELIEF
Sonny Vacaro (pictured with NBA superstar LeBron James) has been one of the most knowledgable and influencial individuals involved with high school basketball for many years. He agrees with my concept regarding teams shown in my "National" ratings. After last year's ratings debacle, I believe that there will come a day when all the national polls, coaches and fans around the country will realize how right we are about this important subject.
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fascination of the country in years past. This is a great story about the Edgerton (MN) Flying Dutchmen who came out of nowhere to go undefeated and win the Minnesota State Championship in 1960. This book is a must have for your basketball or sports library!....
Over the years I have had stories about players from the past who scored one hundred or more points in a game or for a high PPG average. 
County hills to become the most colorful, most exciting most unforgettable team in the history of Ohio high school basketball. Dick Burnette published a great book about the team in 1961 and finding a copy of that book is now almost imposiible. Now Dick has another book that may become just as much a treasure as the first. I encourage all basketball fans to get a copy. You can find information by calling 
Visitors to this site seem to enjoy stories about past players and events and I will have those up as often as possible. Everything has to go right for a player to score 100 points in a sibgle game. This event happened on a cold and rainy night fifty years in Newberry, South Carolina....
Pete Maravich was destined to be a great basketball player and his coaching father Press made sure there he would secure his legend. He averaged over 44 points per game over a three year period at LSU, and that was before the three point shot took affect. If the three point shot had been the rule as it is now, his averaged would probably have been over 50 PPG. He was one of my all time favorite players and "Pistol" Pete may have been the college best player ever,,,