100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament
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During the 2007 annual Illinois High School Association's boys basketball tournament
, the "100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament" was announced. This announcement was made during the centennial celebration of America’s Original March Madness.
Beginning in November 2006, fans selected the first 82 Legends in an online election that ran through March 2007. The remaining 18 legends were selected by a special committee.
Illinois high school boys basketball championship
The Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship is a single elimination tournament held each spring. It is organized by the Illinois High School Association ....
, the "100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament" was announced. This announcement was made during the centennial celebration of America’s Original March Madness.
Beginning in November 2006, fans selected the first 82 Legends in an online election that ran through March 2007. The remaining 18 legends were selected by a special committee.
100 Legends
- Joe Allen, Chicago (Carver) High SchoolCarver Military AcademyGeorge Washington Carver Military Academy High School, formely known as George Washington Carver Area High School, is a public high school in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1947 as a mainstream high school, and began the transition into becoming a military academy in 2000...
- Jeff Baker, Park Ridge (Maine South) High SchoolMaine South High SchoolMaine South High School, or MSHS, is a public four-year high school located in Park Ridge, Illinois, a north-west suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Maine Township High School District 207, which also includes Maine East High School and Maine West High School.Maine...
- Kenny BattleKenny BattleKenneth R. "Kenny" Battle is an American retired professional basketball player.-High school career:...
, Aurora (West) High SchoolWest Aurora High SchoolWest Aurora High School, or WAHS, is a public four-year high school located in Aurora, Illinois. It is part of West Aurora Public School District 129. The school is also referred to as "West," and "West High,".- History :... - Boyd BattsBoyd BattsBoyd Batts is an American retired professional basketball player.Batts played center for the Thornridge High School. His Falcons lost only one game during his junior and senior seasons and won back-to-back state titles. The 1972 team was undefeated, with no team coming within 14 points of them....
, Dolton (Thornridge) High SchoolThornridge High SchoolThornridge High School is a public high school located in Dolton, Illinois. It was built as part of Thornton Township High Schools District 205. It is sometimes confused with the similar sounding schools in the same district: Thornton Township High School and Thornwood High... - Ted Beach, Champaign High SchoolChampaign Central High SchoolChampaign Central High School is a high school located in Champaign, Illinois. It has 1,385 students in grades 9-12. The principal is Joe Williams. It is part of the Champaign Unit 4 School District school system. Its sports teams are the Central Maroons....
- Dusty Bensko, Pleasant Plains High SchoolPleasant Plains, IllinoisPleasant Plains is a village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 777 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Pleasant Plains is located at ....
- Brad Bickett, Ohio High SchoolOhio High School (Ohio, Illinois)Ohio High School, or OHS, is a public four-year high school located at 103 Memorial Street in Ohio, Illinois, a village in Bureau County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States. OHS serves the community and surrounding area of Ohio...
(player), Manlius (Bureau Valley) High SchoolBureau Valley High SchoolBureau Valley High School is a high school located on 9154 County Road 2125 North in Manlius, Illinois. The high school is part of Bureau Valley Community Unit School District #340. BVHS was the first high school in Illinois to construct and run a full-sized wind turbine...
(coach) - Don Blanken, Dundee High SchoolDundee-Crown High SchoolDundee-Crown High School is a high school located in Carpentersville, Illinois, United States, a suburb of Chicago.Dundee-Crown High School was made from Dundee Community High School and Irving Crown High school consolidation in 1983. It is a AAA school for IHSA sports...
- Lou BoudreauLou BoudreauLouis "Lou" Boudreau was an American Major League Baseball player and manager. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1970...
, Harvey (Thornton) High SchoolThornton Township High SchoolThornton Township High School, often simply referred to as Thornton is a public high school founded in 1899. The school is located in Harvey, Illinois one of the south suburbs of the city of Chicago, Illinois. The school is one of three schools administered by Thornton Township High Schools... - Jamie Brandon, Chicago (King) High SchoolKing College Prep High SchoolDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. College Preparatory High School is a high school located in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood on Drexel Blvd., about one kilometer from Lake Michigan...
- Jim BrewerJim Brewer (basketball)James Turner Brewer is a retired American National Basketball Association player. Brewer was the first notable player to come out of Proviso East High School, which has one of the most successful high school basketball programs in Illinois. In 1969, Brewer, playing center, led his team to the...
, Maywood (Proviso East) High SchoolProviso East High SchoolProviso East High School is a public secondary school in Maywood, Illinois which serves the educational needs of Maywood and three other villages within Proviso Township, Cook County, Illinois: Broadview, Forest Park and Melrose Park. It is the original campus of Proviso Township High Schools... - Bruce Brothers, Quincy Senior High SchoolQuincy Senior High School-History:The first school dedicated to high school students in Quincy, Illinois opened in 1891 at the corner of 12th and Maine. This "Pride of the Gem City" served students until 1933 when the "new" Quincy Senior High opened at 14th and Maine in 1933. The building sits along Historic Maine Street...
- Charlie Brown, Chicago (DuSable) High SchoolDuSable High SchoolDuSable High School was a public high school in Chicago opened in the Bronzeville neighborhood in 1934. It was named after Chicago's first permanent non-native settler, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. DuSable was built to accommodate the growing Phillips High School in the 1930s. The campus was...
- Quinn BucknerQuinn BucknerWilliam Quinn Buckner, commonly known as Quinn Buckner is a former American professional basketball player and coach. He played collegiately at Indiana University, and was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 7th pick of the 1976 NBA Draft...
, Dolton (Thornridge) High SchoolThornridge High SchoolThornridge High School is a public high school located in Dolton, Illinois. It was built as part of Thornton Township High Schools District 205. It is sometimes confused with the similar sounding schools in the same district: Thornton Township High School and Thornwood High... - Chuck Buescher, Peoria High School
- Jack BurmasterJack BurmasterJohn H. "Jack" Burmaster was an American basketball player and coach.He played collegiately for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.He was selected by the St...
, Elgin High School (player), Evanston Township High SchoolEvanston Township High SchoolEvanston Township High School District 202, is a four-year, comprehensive high school occupying a campus in Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb along the Lake Michigan shore. ETHS serves the multiracial city of Evanston and a small portion of the neighboring village of Skokie, for a total...
(coach) - Ed Butkovich, Canton High SchoolCanton High School (Illinois)Canton High School is a public high school located in Canton, Illinois. The school serves about 900 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Canton Union School District....
(player), Mt. Pulaski High SchoolMount Pulaski, IllinoisMount Pulaski is a city in Logan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,701 at the 2000 census, and 1,577 at a 2009 estimate. It is the home of the Mount Pulaski Courthouse State Historic Site...
(coach) - Ted Caiazza, LaGrange (Lyons) High SchoolLyons Township High SchoolLyons Township High School is a public high school located in La Grange, Illinois. Freshmen and sophomores attend class at South campus, located at 4900 S. Willow Springs Rd. in Western Springs, while juniors and seniors attend class at North campus, located at 100 S. Brainard Ave. in La Grange,...
- Andy Calmes, Warrensburg-Latham High SchoolWarrensburg-Latham Community Unit District 11Warrensburg-Latham Community Unit District 11 is a school district encompassing the villages of Warrensburg, Latham, parts of northwest Decatur, IL, parts of Forsyth, Illinois and much of the surrounding countryside. Warrensburg and Latham is a cross-county school.Warrensburg School and Latham...
- Cliff Cameron, Pleasant Plains High School
- Francis Clements, Ottawa (Twp.) High SchoolOttawa, IllinoisOttawa is a city located at the confluence of the Illinois River and Fox River in LaSalle County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 18,786...
- Jeff Clements, Mt. Pulaski High School
- Harry CombesHarry CombesHarry Combes , a native of Monticello, Illinois, served as head men's basketball coach at University of Illinois between 1947 and 1967....
, Champaign High School - Lynch Conway, Peoria High School
- Dick Corn, Benton High School (player), Pinckneyville High SchoolPinckneyville Community High SchoolPinckneyville Community High School is a public high school in Pinckneyville, Illinois. It is located in Perry County Illinois.-Academics:PCHS requires students to obtain a minimum of 32 credit hours in order to graduate...
(coach) - Landon “Sonny” Cox, Chicago (King) High School
- Bruce DouglasBruce Douglas (basketball)Bruce Douglas is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'3" guard, he played varsity basketball for Quincy Senior High School four years, and was a four-year starter at the University of Illinois...
, Quincy Senior High School - Walter Downing, New Lenox (Providence Catholic) High SchoolProvidence Catholic High SchoolProvidence Catholic High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school located in New Lenox, Illinois. Located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet, Providence Catholic is a private school run by the Order of Saint Augustine. The president of Providence is Father Richard McGrath, OSA, with Mr...
- Mike Duff, Eldorado High SchoolEldorado, IllinoisEldorado is a city in Saline County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,122 at the 2010 census, with a 1925 peak of 8,000. Although the city's name is spelled as if it were Spanish, the name was originally "Elder-Reado" -- a combination of the last names of the town's two founders,...
- Dwight “Dike” EddlemanDwight EddlemanThomas Dwight "Dike" Eddleman is generally considered the greatest athlete in the history of athletics at the University of Illinois. Eddleman participated on the University's basketball, track and field, and football teams between the years of 1947 and 1949...
, Centralia High School - LaPhonso EllisLaPhonso EllisLaPhonso Darnell Ellis is a retired American basketball player.-Early career:He was an outstanding high school basketball player at East St. Louis Lincoln High School, where he led the Tigers to two straight Illinois Class AA boys' championships in 1987 and 1988...
, East St. Louis (Lincoln) High SchoolEast St. Louis Senior High SchoolEast Saint Louis Sr. High School is the only high school located in East Saint Louis, Illinois. The school serves about 2,140 students in grades 9 to 12 in the East Saint Louis Public Schools district. It was featured in the Jonathan Kozol book Savage Inequalities.- Sports :East St... - Melvin ElyMelvin ElyMelvin Anderson Ely is an American professional basketball player who last played in the NBA for the Denver Nuggets....
, Harvey (Thornton) High School - Ernie Eveland, Waterman High SchoolWaterman, IllinoisWaterman is a village in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,506 at the 2010 census, up from 1224 at the 2000 census.The village is known for the train line that operates in Lion's Club Park...
, Paris High School - Ron Felling, Lawrenceville High SchoolLawrenceville High SchoolLawrenceville High School is a 9-12th grade high school located in Lawrenceville, Illinois....
- Michael FinleyMichael FinleyMichael Howard Finley is a retired American professional basketball player. He last played for the Boston Celtics of the NBA.-High school career:...
, Maywood (Proviso East) High School - Vergil Fletcher, Collinsville High SchoolCollinsville High SchoolCollinsville High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the Collinsville Community Unit School District 10. In 2011, Collinsville High School had an enrollment of 1,985 students.-Academics:...
- Jim Flynn, IHSAIllinois High School AssociationThe Illinois High School Association is one of 521 state high school associations in the United States, designed to regulate competition in most interscholastic sports and some interscholastic activities at the high school level. It is a charter member of the National Federation of State High...
- Larry Graham, Madison High SchoolMadison, IllinoisMadison is a city in Madison County and partially in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,545 at the 2000 census. It is home to Gateway International Raceway and the first Bulgarian Orthodox church in the United States.-Geography:...
- Bob Grant, Pekin High SchoolPekin, IllinoisPekin is a the county seat of Tazewell County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located on the Illinois River, Pekin is also the largest city of Tazewell County, and a key part of the Peoria metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, its population is 34,094. A small portion of the city limits extends...
- Lowell HamiltonLowell HamiltonLowell Hamilton was a former high school and college basketball player during the 1980s. Hamilton, a dominant high school center, led Chicago's Providence-St. Mel to a third-place finish in the I.H.S.A. 1984 high school playoffs, as well as a Class A state title in 1985...
, Chicago (Providence-St. Mel) High SchoolProvidence-St. MelProvidence St. Mel School is a private, coeducational K-12 school in East Garfield Park, Chicago, Illinois. The school currently has 594 students and 50 teachers.-History:... - Dawson “Dawdy” Hawkins, Peoria High School, Pekin High School
- Bill Heisler, Warsaw High SchoolWarsaw High School (Illinois)Warsaw High School, or WHS, is a public four-year high school located at 340 South 11th Street in Warsaw, Illinois, a small city in Hancock County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States. WHS serves the communities of Warsaw, Basco, Colusa, Nauvoo, Niota, Sutter, and Tioga...
- Max Hooper, Mt. Vernon High School
- Walt Hoult, Chrisman High SchoolChrisman, IllinoisChrisman is a city in Ross Township, Edgar County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,343 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Chrisman is located at . It is on U.S. Route 150 less than a mile north of its intersection with U.S. Route 36...
- Cal Hubbard, Normal (University) High SchoolUniversity High School (Normal)University High School , located in Normal, Illinois, is one of two "laboratory schools" of the College of Education at Illinois State University designed for research and teacher-training; the other is Thomas Metcalf School, an elementary school...
- Shawn Jeppson, Spring Valley (Hall) High SchoolHall High School (Illinois)Hall High School, also known as Spring Valley Hall, or HHS, is a public four-year high school located at 800 West Erie Street in Spring Valley, Illinois, a small city in Bureau County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States. HHS serves the communities and surrounding areas of Spring Valley,...
- Dave Johnson, Oneida (ROVA) High SchoolROWVA High SchoolROWVA High School, ROWVA Senior High School, or RHS, is a public four-year high school located at 346 East ROVA Drive in Oneida, Illinois, a village in Knox County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States...
- Paul Judson, Hebron High School
- Phil Judson, Hebron High School
- Gordon Kerkman, Aurora (West) High School
- Gay Kintner, Decatur High SchoolDecatur, IllinoisDecatur is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The city, sometimes called "the Soybean Capital of the World", was founded in 1823 and is located along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. In 2000 the city population was 81,500,...
- Tom KleinschmidtTom KleinschmidtTom Kleinschmidt is a retired American basketball player and current head basketball coach at York High School in Elmhurst, Illinois...
, Chicago (Gordon Tech) High School - Jerry Kuemmerle, Danville (Schlarman) High SchoolSchlarman High SchoolSchlarman High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school located at the corner of Winter and Vermilion St. in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. The school was established in 1945 and named after Joseph Schlarman, bishop of the archdiocese at the time.Schlarman's teams are stylized as the...
- C.J. Kupec, Oak Lawn Community High SchoolOak Lawn Community High SchoolOak Lawn Community High School , is a school in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, Illinois. The name "Spartans" and the colors Green and White were chosen by a committee in tribute to the Michigan State University Spartans, who won the Rose Bowl in 1954.-Academics:In 2009, OLCHS had an average...
- Jerry Leggett, Olympia Fields (Rich Central) High SchoolRich Central High SchoolRich Central High School or RCHS, is a public four-year high school located in Olympia Fields, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. The Rich Central Campus serves the cities of Olympia Fields, Matteson, Richton Park,...
, Quincy Senior High School - Bennie Lewis, East St. Louis (Lincoln) High School, East St. Louis (Sr.) High SchoolEast St. Louis Senior High SchoolEast Saint Louis Sr. High School is the only high school located in East Saint Louis, Illinois. The school serves about 2,140 students in grades 9 to 12 in the East Saint Louis Public Schools district. It was featured in the Jonathan Kozol book Savage Inequalities.- Sports :East St...
- Marcus LibertyMarcus LibertyMarcus Liberty is a retired American professional basketball player.-High School:Liberty attended Chicago King High School from 1983 to 1987. During his time at King, Liberty led his basketball teams to an IHSA State Championship in 1986 and a second-place finish in 1987...
, Chicago (King) High School - Richard Liitt, Rock Island High SchoolRock Island High SchoolRock Island High School, also known as "Rocky", is a public four-year high school located in Rock Island, Illinois, USA. Rocky is within the Rock Island-Milan School District No. 41, and the school colors are crimson and gold.-Technology:...
- Jack Lipe, Decatur High School (player), Harvey (Thornton) High School (coach)
- Shaun LivingstonShaun LivingstonShaun Patrick Livingston is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks.-Early years:Livingston was born in Peoria, Illinois. He led Concordia Lutheran Grade School, coached by Mr. Tom Ruppert, to LSA state titles in 1999 and 2000...
, Peoria High School - Paxton Lumpkin, Chicago (DuSable) High School
- Cuonzo MartinCuonzo MartinCuonzo LaMar Martin is a retired American professional basketball player and is the current head coach of the University of Tennessee men's basketball team.-1986-1990:...
, East St. Louis (Lincoln) High School - Sergio McClainSergio McClainSergio McClain is a former professional basketball player and NJCAA coach. He was the 1997 winner of the prestigious Illinois Mr...
, Peoria (Manual) High SchoolManual High School (Peoria, Illinois)Manual High School is a public high school located in the south end of Peoria, Illinois. It is the southernmost of the three city high schools operated by the Peoria Public Schools. Manual opened in 1909 and moved from its Lincoln avenue site to a new building located at 811 S... - Wayne McClain, Peoria (Manual) High School
- John McDougal, Salem High School (player), Aurora (West) High School, Rockford (Lutheran) High SchoolRockford Lutheran High SchoolRockford Lutheran High School is a private school in Rockford, Illinois. Established in 1964, Rockford Lutheran High School is associated with 25 area Lutheran Churches. The Lutheran churches have associations with both ELCA & LCMS. Students attend more than 100 area churches; 49% attend a...
(coach) - Tom Michael, Carlyle High SchoolCarlyle, IllinoisCarlyle is a city in Clinton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,406 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clinton County.Carlyle is located approximately 50 miles east of St...
- Fred Miller, Pekin High School
- Doug MillsDouglas R. MillsDouglas R. Mills a native of Elgin, Illinois, was a high school and college basketball player and coach in the state of Illinois. During high school, Mills was the first player in the state to lead his team to back-to-back titles in 1924 and 1925. He totaled 32 points in four state tournament...
, Elgin High School (player), Joliet (Twp.) High SchoolJoliet Township High School District 204Joliet Township High School District 204 is a high school district located in Joliet in western Will County, Illinois. Founded in 1901, it is one of the area's oldest school districts...
(coach) - Dale Minick, Decatur High School
- Johnny OrrJohnny OrrJohn M. "Johnny" Orr is a retired American basketball player and coach, best known as the head coach of men's basketball at the University of Michigan and at Iowa State University.-Life as a player:...
, Taylorville High SchoolTaylorville High SchoolTaylorville Senior High School is a four-year public high school located in Taylorville, Illinois. The mascot are the Tornadoes.THS is part of TCUSD #3 which also includes a middle-school, four elementary schools located in Taylorville and Mt. Auburn Elementary School and Stonington Elementary.... - Mark Pancratz, Schaumburg High SchoolSchaumburg High SchoolSchaumburg High School, or SHS is a public four-year high school located in Schaumburg, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.-History:Schaumburg High School opened on September 17th 1970...
- Mark Peterman, Canton High School, Springfield High SchoolSpringfield High School (Illinois)Springfield High School is a public secondary school located in Springfield, Illinois. It is the oldest of the three high schools in Springfield Public Schools District 186 . The school draws mainly from the west side of Springfield.While the school opened in 1857, the current building was...
- Andy Phillip, Granite City High SchoolGranite City, IllinoisGranite City is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States, part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. At the 2010 census, the population was 29,849, making it the third largest city in the Metro-East and Southern Illinois, behind Alton and Belleville...
- Gene Pingatore, Westchester (St. Joseph) High SchoolSt. Joseph High School (Westchester, Illinois)St. Joseph High School is a Roman Catholic, coeducational, college prep, school in Westchester, Illinois, and is sponsored by the Christian Brothers of De La Salle....
- Roger PowellRoger Powell (basketball)Roger Powell Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played collegiately at the University of Illinois from 2001–2005, after having attended Joliet High School, with a 2001 graduation. Powell played the forward position for his high school and in college...
, Joliet (Central) High SchoolJoliet Central High SchoolJoliet Central High School is a public secondary school located in Joliet, Illinois. Central is part of Joliet Township High Schools, along with Joliet West and Joliet East . Prior to the opening of Joliet East and West, the school was called Joliet Township High School... - Bogie Redmon, Collinsville High SchoolCollinsville High SchoolCollinsville High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the Collinsville Community Unit School District 10. In 2011, Collinsville High School had an enrollment of 1,985 students.-Academics:...
- Quentin RichardsonQuentin RichardsonQuentin Richardson is an American professional basketball player who plays for the National Basketball Association's Orlando Magic...
, Chicago (Young) High School - Dave RobischDave RobischDavid George Robisch is a retired American professional basketball player in the ABA and NBA. Robisch played at the University of Kansas, where he was initiated into the Sigma Nu Fraternity...
, Springfield High School - Chuck Rolinski, Toluca High SchoolToluca, IllinoisToluca is a city in Marshall County, Illinois. The population was 1,339 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Peoria, Illinois, Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Toluca is located at ....
- Cazzie Russell, Chicago (Carver) High School
- Herb Scheffler, Springfield High School
- Jon ScheyerJon ScheyerJonathan James "Jon" Scheyer is an American-Israeli professional basketball player. He plays shooting guard for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Super League in that competition, the Adriatic League, and the Euroleague...
, Northbrook (Glenbrook North) High SchoolGlenbrook North High SchoolGlenbrook North High School, or GBN, is a public four-year high school located in Northbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States... - Bill Schulz, Hebron High School
- Jay Shidler, Lawrenceville High School
- Jack SikmaJack SikmaJack Wayne Sikma is a retired American NBA basketball center. He was known for his distinctive curly, blonde hair in his playing days....
, St. Anne High SchoolSt. Anne, IllinoisSt. Anne is a village in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,212 at the 2000 census, and 1,247 in 2009. It is part of the Kankakee–Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Chicago–Naperville–Michigan City, IL-IN-WI Combined Statistical... - Marty SimmonsMarty Simmons-External links:* at gopurpleaces.com...
, Lawrenceville High School - Dolph StanleyDolph StanleyDolph Stanley was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the ”Silver Fox”, Stanley is best known for holding the "unbreakable" record of guiding five different Illinois High School Association schools into the state tournament...
, Equality High SchoolEquality, IllinoisEquality is a village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States. The population was 721 at the 2000 census. Near the village are two points of interest, the Crenshaw House and the Garden of the Gods Wilderness.-History:...
, Mt. Pulaski High School, Taylorville High School, Rockford (Auburn) High School, Rockford (Boylan) High SchoolBoylan Catholic High SchoolBoylan Catholic High School is a private Catholic school located in the city of Rockford, Illinois. Founded in 1960, Boylan is the only Catholic high school in Rockford, and has 1187 students at the start of the 2010-2011 school year... - Lyndon Swanson, Watseka High SchoolWatseka, IllinoisWatseka is a city in and the county seat of Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. It is located approximately west of the Illinois-Indiana state line on U.S...
- John Thiel, Galesburg High SchoolGalesburg High SchoolGalesburg High School is a public high school in Galesburg, Illinois. Galesburg High School was established in 1861 in downtown Galesburg. It has since moved to Fremont Street on the west side of town...
- Isiah ThomasIsiah ThomasIsiah Lord Thomas III , nicknamed "Zeke",is the men's basketball coach for the FIU Golden Panthers, and a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association from 1981 until 1994. He led the "Bad Boys" to the NBA...
, Westchester (St. Joseph) High School - Merrill “Duster” Thomas, Pinckneyville High SchoolPinckneyville Community High SchoolPinckneyville Community High School is a public high school in Pinckneyville, Illinois. It is located in Perry County Illinois.-Academics:PCHS requires students to obtain a minimum of 32 credit hours in order to graduate...
- Gary Tidwell, Pana High SchoolPana, IllinoisPana is a city in Christian County, Illinois, United States. The population was 5,847 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Pana is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
, Fairbury (Prairie Central) High SchoolPrairie Central High SchoolPrairie Central High School is the high school for the Prairie Central Consolidated School District in central Illinois. It is located in Fairbury, Illinois.The current principal is Dan Casillas.-History:... - Arthur Trout, Centralia High School
- Dick Van Scyoc, Washington Community High SchoolWashington Community High SchoolWashington Community High School is a public high school located in Washington, Illinois. The district, Washington Community High School District 308, was first chartered in 1920, but the current high school on Bondurant Street was opened in 1942 with an enrollment of 230...
, Peoria (Manual) High School - Bob Van Vooren, Moline High SchoolMoline High SchoolMoline High School, or Moline, is a public four-year high school located in Moline, Illinois, a city in Rock Island County, in the United States...
- Brian Vance, Rock Falls High SchoolRock Falls High SchoolRock Falls Township High School, better known simply as Rock Falls High School, is a four year public high school located in Rock Falls, Illinois...
- John Wessels, Rockford (West) High SchoolRockford, IllinoisRockford is a mid-sized city located on both banks of the Rock River in far northern Illinois. Often referred to as "The Forest City", Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, USA. As reported in the 2010 U.S. census, the city was home to 152,871 people, the third most populated...
- Frank WilliamsFrank Williams (basketball)Frank Lowell Williams is a former American professional basketball player. As a point guard, Williams starred at both the high school and collegiate levels, and played briefly in the NBA....
, Peoria (Manual) High School - George Wilson, Chicago (Marshall) High SchoolJohn Marshall Metropolitan High SchoolJohn Marshall Metropolitan High School is a public 4-year high school located on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It serves the students of the East Garfield Park, West Garfield Park, North Lawndale and Humboldt Park neighborhoods. Marshall's principal is Kenyatta Butler...
- Bob Zerrusen, Teutopolis High SchoolTeutopolis, IllinoisTeutopolis is a village in Effingham County, Illinois.-Geography:Teutopolis is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land.-History:...