Mr. Basketball of Michigan

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Each year the Hal Schram Mr. Basketball award is given to the person chosen as the best high school senior boys basketball player in the U.S. state of Michigan. The award is named in honor of the late Hal Schram, a sports writer at the Detroit Free Press who covered high school sports for 40 years before retiring in 1983. [1]

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The award has been given since 1981 by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (BCAM). [2] Most of the award winners have gone on to play at the highest levels of college basketball, and many have gone on to play in the National Basketball Association.

Voting is done on a points system. Each voter selects first, second, and third-place votes. A player receives five points for each first-place vote, three points for each second-place vote, and one point for a third-place vote. The player who receives the most points receives the award. Only "actively coaching" BCAM members can vote. Beginning for the 2007 award, votes may only be cast for a predetermined group of five finalists, whereas in the past, the pool was unlimited. [3]

Mr. Basketball winners

YearWinnerHigh schoolUniversityNBA Draft
2024Durral Brooks Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School Michigan
2023Tyler Jamison Port Huron Northern High School Fairleigh Dickinson
2022Chansey Willis Jr. Detroit King High School Saginaw Valley State / Western Michigan
2021Pierre Brooks II Detroit Douglass Academy Michigan State / Butler
2020Scooby Johnson Benton Harbor High School Butler
2019 Romeo Weems New Haven High School DePaul
2018 Foster Loyer Clarkston High School Michigan State / Davidson
2017 Isaiah Livers Kalamazoo Central High School Michigan 2021 NBA draft: 2nd round, 42nd overall by the Charlotte Hornets, subsequently traded to the Detroit Pistons via the New York Knicks
2016 Cassius Winston University of Detroit Jesuit High School Michigan State 2020 NBA draft: 2nd round, 53rd overall by the Oklahoma City Thunder, subsequently traded to the Washington Wizards
2015 Deyonta Davis Muskegon High School Michigan State 2016 NBA draft: 2nd round, 31st overall by the Boston Celtics
2014Deshaun Thrower Muskegon High School Stony Brook / Ferris State
2013 Monté Morris Flint Beecher High School Iowa State 2017 NBA draft: 2nd round, 51st overall by the Denver Nuggets
2012 Matt Costello Bay City Western High School Michigan State
2011Dwaun AndersonSuttons Bay High School Wagner
2010 Keith Appling Detroit Pershing High School Michigan State
2009 Derrick Nix Detroit Pershing High School Michigan State
2008Brad RedfordFrankenmuth High School Xavier
2007 Manny Harris Detroit Redford Michigan
2006 David Kool Grand Rapids South Christian High School Western Michigan
2005 Wilson Chandler Benton Harbor High School DePaul 2007 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 23rd overall by the New York Knicks
2004 Drew Neitzel Wyoming Park High School Michigan State
2003 Dion Harris Detroit Redford Michigan
2002 Paul Davis Rochester High School Michigan State 2006 NBA draft: 2nd Rnd, 34th overall by the Los Angeles Clippers
2001 Kelvin Torbert Flint Northwestern High School Michigan State
2000 Marcus Taylor Lansing Waverly High School Michigan State 2002 NBA draft: 2nd Rnd, 52nd overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves
1999 Jason Richardson Arthur Hill High School Michigan State 2001 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 5th overall by the Golden State Warriors
1998 Dane Fife Clarkston High School Indiana
1997 Shane Battier Detroit Country Day School Duke 2001 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 6th overall by the Memphis Grizzlies
1996Winfred Walton Detroit Pershing High School Fresno State
1995 Robert Traylor Detroit Murray-Wright High School Michigan 1998 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 6th overall by the Dallas Mavericks
1994 Willie Mitchell Detroit Pershing High School Michigan, UAB
1993 Jon Garavaglia Southgate Aquinas High School Michigan State
1992Kenyon Murray Battle Creek Central High School Iowa
1991 Chris Webber Detroit Country Day School Michigan 1993 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 1st overall by the Orlando Magic
1990 Anthony Miller Benton Harbor High School Michigan State 1994 NBA draft: 2nd Rnd, 39th overall by the Golden State Warriors
1989Michael Talley Detroit Cooley High School Michigan
1988 Matt Steigenga Grand Rapids South Christian High School Michigan State 1992 NBA draft: 2nd Rnd, 52nd overall by the Chicago Bulls
1987 Mark Macon Saginaw Buena Vista High School Temple 1991 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 8th overall by the Denver Nuggets
1986 Terry Mills Romulus High School Michigan 1990 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 16th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks
1985 Glen Rice Flint Northwestern High School Michigan 1989 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 4th overall by the Miami Heat
1984Demetreus Gore Detroit Chadsey High School Pittsburgh
1983 Antoine Joubert Detroit Southwestern High School Michigan 1987 NBA draft: 6th Rnd, 134th overall by the Detroit Pistons
1982Robert Henderson Lansing Eastern High School Michigan 1986 NBA draft: 7th Rnd, 143rd overall by the Chicago Bulls
1981 Sam Vincent Lansing Eastern High School Michigan State 1985 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 20th overall by the Boston Celtics

Retro Mr. Basketball winners

In 2010, the BCAM began a 10-year project to honor 'high school senior' boys basketball players from the period prior to the inception of the Mr. Basketball award. The initial awards were announced for players for the years ending in xxx0 - 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970 and 1980. In 2011, awards for next six corresponding 'seniors' for years ending in xxx1 - 1921, 1931, 1941, 1951, 1961, and 1971 - were named. This pattern continued through the year 2019 when the final award winners were selected for the seasons ending in xxx9. [4]

YearWinnerHigh schoolUniversity
1980 Tim McCormick Clarkston Michigan
1979 Jay Smith Mio AuSable High School Bowling Green, Saginaw Valley State
1978 Trent Tucker Flint Northwestern Minnesota
1977 Earvin "Magic" Johnson Lansing Everett Michigan State
1976 Stuart House Detroit Denby Washington State
1975 Bruce Flowers Berkley Notre Dame
1974Tony Smith Saginaw Nevada-Las Vegas
1973 Tom LaGarde Detroit Catholic Central North Carolina
1972 Larry Fogle Detroit Cooley Canisius
1971 Michael "Campy" Russell Pontiac Central Michigan
1970Rick Drewitz Garden City West Kentucky
1969Ernie Johnson Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills Michigan
1968 Ralph Simpson Detroit Pershing Michigan State
1967 Spencer Haywood Detroit Pershing University of Detroit
1966 Rudy Tomjanovich Hamtramck Michigan
1965L. C. Bowen Benton Harbor Bradley
1964Willie Betts River Rouge Bradley
1963 Craig Dill Saginaw Arthur Hill Michigan
1962Ernie Thompson Saginaw Bradley
1961 Reggie Harding Detroit Eastern None
1960 Peter Gent Bangor Michigan State
1959 David Gaines Detroit Northeastern LeMoyne–Owen College
1958 Chet Walker Benton Harbor High School Bradley
1957Ed BurtonMuskegon Heights Michigan State
1956 Mel Peterson Stephenson Wheaton
1955 M. C. Burton Jr. Muskegon Heights Michigan
1954 Pete Tillotson Ludington Michigan
1953 Ron Kramer East Detroit Michigan
1952Frank TananaDetroit St. AndrewCal State-Fulerton (baseball)
1951Webster Kirksey Saginaw Eastern Michigan
1950Charlie Primas Detroit Miller Wayne State
1949 Ken Burrell Hamtramck Lawrence Tech
1948Art McColganSaginaw SS Peter & Paul Villanova
1947Sammy GeeDetroit Miller
1946Jack Forestieri Benton Harbor Notre Dame
1945Bob SwansonLansing Sexton
1944 Dick Rifenburg Saginaw Arthur Hill Michigan
1943 Don Boven Kalamazoo Central Western Michigan
1942Larry Savage Saginaw Northwestern
1941Don OstermanDetroit St. Theresa Villanova
1940Ralph Gibert Flint Northern Michigan
1939Gene Broene Grand Rapids Christian Calvin College
1938John Maartens Kalamazoo Central
1937Bob OstermanDetroit St. Theresa Notre Dame
1936Charles PinkDetroit Northwestern Michigan
1935John ZwierHolland Christian
1934Earl Brown Jr. Benton Harbor Notre Dame
1933Lincoln Dodson Truss Flint Northern
1932Lowell MattesonPortage
1931Edward HuttengaGrand Haven Western Michigan
1930John TookerKalamazoo St. Augustine Michigan
1929 Lou Jagnow Jackson Carnegie Mellon University
1928Francis 'Dink' Doolittle Detroit Northwestern
1927Bill McCall Muskegon Dartmouth
1926 Roger Grove Sturgis Michigan State
1925 Joe Truskowski Detroit Northeastern Michigan
1924 Bennie Oosterbaan Muskegon Michigan
1923Henry SchrumpfNiles Western Michigan
1922Royal Cherry Grand Rapids Union Michigan
1921 George Haggarty Ypsilanti Michigan
1920 Harry Kipke Lansing Central Michigan

Most winners by high school (1920-Present)

NumberHigh school
7Benton Harbor High School
6Detroit Pershing High School
4Muskegon High School
4Saginaw High School
3Clarkston High School
3Flint Northwestern High School
3Kalamazoo High School
3Saginaw Arthur Hill High School

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