# New York state high school boys basketball championships

The New York state high school boys basketball championships are won in the Federation Tournament of Champions, which is conducted annually by the New York State Federation of Secondary School Athletic Associations (NYSFSSAA).
The tournament comprises the winners of the various high school athletic associations in New York:
* New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) (public schools outside of New York City) (which qualifies in the NYSPHSAA Tournament)
* Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) (public schools in New York City)
* Catholic High School Athletic Association (CHSAA) (Catholic schools primarily in Buffalo, New York City, Long Island, and Westchester)
* New York State Association of Independent Schools Athletic Association (NYSAISAA)
For geographic reasons, some Catholic and independent schools in upstate New York and Long Island compete in the NYSPHSAA.
The championship games are held each March. The 2020 tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

## History

Following a 45-year ban on high school basketball state championship tournaments in New York State, the State Education Department granted approval in 1978 for the first boys Federation tournament to be conducted on an experimental basis. The original boys tournament was named the Super Sixteen tournament, as the four associations (NYSPHSAA, PSAL, CHSAA and NYSAISAA) competed in four classes, based primarily on student-body size. The four classes were called AAA, AA, A and B in 1979. From 1981 through 2003, the four classes were called A, B, C and D. In September 2000, the tournament became known as the Federation Tournament of Champions. Beginning with the 2004 tournament, competition has been held in three classes (AA, A and B).
Following a three-year hiatus caused by the COVID pandemic, the Federation tournament returned in 2023, albeit on a smaller scale with games held at school sites around the Capital District. The tournament was put on indefinite pause after the 2023 edition: schools cited a decrease in interest from fans and media, plus a desire for athletes to start their spring sporting seasons earlier.

## Venues

After the first two tournaments were held in Syracuse and Rochester in 1979 and 1980, the competition moved to Glens Falls through 2010 and then to Albany. In 2015, because the Times Union Center was used for the NCAA Women's Basketball Albany Regional, the Federation tournament was held at SEFCU Arena, the home court of the University at Albany, SUNY basketball teams. The tournament moved back to Glens Falls in 2017.
| Year(s) | City | Arena |
| 1979 | Syracuse | Onondaga War Memorial Arena |
| 1980 | Rochester | Rochester Community War Memorial |
| 1981–2010 | Glens Falls | Glens Falls Civic Center |
| 2011–2014 | Albany | Times Union Center |
| 2015 | Albany | SEFCU Arena |
| 2016 | Albany | Times Union Center |
| 2017–2019 | Glens Falls | Glens Falls Civic Center/Cool Insuring Arena |

## Classifications

For 2015, the NYSPHSAA classification enrollment cutoffs were as follows, counting the number of 9th, 10th and 11th grade students in the previous scholastic year (enrollment is doubled for all-boys schools):
* Class AA: 910 and more
* Class A: 480-909
* Class B: 280-479
PSAL, CHSAA and NYSAISAA have their own classification systems, not tied directly to student enrollments.
A school may elect to play in a higher classification, but may not elect to play in a lower classification.

## Winners and Runners Up

Results through 2020:
| Year | Class | Winner | Ass'n | Runner Up | Ass'n | W Score | RU Score | OTs |
| 1979 | AAA | St. Anthony's (South Huntington) | CHSAA | Mount Vernon | NYSPHSAA | 36 | 34 | |
| 1979 | AA | Nazareth (Brooklyn) | CHSAA | Norman Thomas (NYC) | PSAL | 76 | 69 | |
| 1979 | A | St. Agnes (NYC) | CHSAA | Cuba | NYSPHSAA | 106 | 62 | |
| 1979 | B | Bishop Neumann (Williamsville) | CHSAA | Bridgehampton | NYSPHSAA | 68 | 65 | 1 |
| 1980 | A | Holy Trinity (Hicksville) | CHSAA | Ward Melville (East Setauket) | NYSPHSAA | 53 | 48 | |
| 1980 | B | Tolentine (Bronx) | CHSAA | Bellport | NYSPHSAA | 74 | 67 | |
| 1980 | C | St. Dominic (Oyster Bay) | CHSAA | Lyons | NYSPHSAA | 61 | 45 | |
| 1980 | D | Bridgehampton | NYSPHSAA | Our Saviour Lutheran (Bronx) | NYSAISAA | 77 | 73 | |
| 1981 | A | Xaverian (Brooklyn) | CHSAA | Mount Vernon | NYSPHSAA | 67 | 66 | |
| 1981 | B | Malverne | NYSPHSAA | Tolentine (Bronx) | CHSAA | 55 | 54 | |
| 1981 | C | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | Wyandanch | NYSPHSAA | 60 | 59 | |
| 1981 | D | Our Saviour Lutheran (Bronx) | NYSAISAA | Tuckahoe | NYSPHSAA | 84 | 54 | |
| 1982 | A | Benjamin Franklin (NYC) | PSAL | Spring Valley | NYSPHSAA | 56 | 55 | |
| 1982 | B | Nottingham (Syracuse) | NYSPHSAA | St. Agnes (NYC) | CHSAA | 74 | 69 | |
| 1982 | C | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | Wyandanch | NYSPHSAA | 68 | 43 | |
| 1982 | D | New York Mills | NYSPHSAA | McBurney (NYC) | NYSAISAA | 64 | 63 | |
| 1983 | A | North Babylon | NYSPHSAA | Springfield Gardens | PSAL | 87 | 73 | |
| 1983 | B | Bishop Loughlin (Brooklyn) | CHSAA | Bennett (Buffalo) | NYSPHSAA | 96 | 68 | |
| 1983 | C | Charlotte (Rochester) | NYSPHSAA | Wyandanch | NYSPHSAA | 88 | 57 | |
| 1983 | D | Our Saviour Lutheran (Bronx) | NYSAISAA | Brookfield | NYSPHSAA | 85 | 54 | |
| 1984 | A | Harry S. Truman (Bronx) | PSAL | Sweet Home (Amherst) | NYSPHSAA | 67 | 65 | 1 |
| 1984 | B | Bennett (Buffalo) | NYSPHSAA | Holy Cross (Flushing) | CHSAA | 65 | 57 | |
| 1984 | C | Charlotte (Rochester) | NYSPHSAA | Dalton (NYC) | NYSAISAA | 47 | 46 | |
| 1985 | A | All Hallows (Bronx) | CHSAA | Binghamton | NYSPHSAA | 66 | 63 | 1 |
| 1985 | B | Samuel Gompers (Bronx) | PSAL | Westbury (Old Westbury) | NYSPHSAA | 72 | 54 | |
| 1985 | C | Nichols (Buffalo) | NYSAISAA | Wheatley (Old Westbury) | NYSPHSAA | 74 | 55 | |
| 1986 | A | Binghamton | NYSPHSAA | Abraham Lincoln (Brooklyn) | PSAL | 79 | 61 | |
| 1986 | B | Xaverian (Brooklyn) | CHSAA | Manhasset | NYSPHSAA | 71 | 70 | |
| 1986 | C | Nichols (Buffalo) | NYSAISAA | Wilson Magnet (Rochester) | NYSPHSAA | 63 | 59 | |
| 1987 | A | Our Saviour Lutheran (Bronx) | NYSAISAA | Archbishop Molloy (Briarwood) | CHSAA | 71 | 61 | |
| 1987 | B | Nottingham (Syracuse) | NYSPHSAA | Christ the King (Middle Village) | CHSAA | 72 | 70 | |
| 1987 | C | Trott Vocational (Niagara Falls) | NYSPHSAA | Regis (NYC) | CHSAA | 57 | 86 | |
| 1988 | A | Tolentine (Bronx) | CHSAA | Our Saviour Lutheran (Bronx) | NYSAISAA | 95 | 69 | |
| 1988 | B | La Salle (Niagara Falls) | NYSPHSAA | Samuel Gompers (Bronx) | PSAL | 80 | 67 | |
| 1988 | C | Turner-Carroll (Buffalo) | CHSAA | Stillwater | NYSPHSAA | 86 | 87 | |
| 1989 | A | Christ the King (Middle Village) | CHSAA | Adlai Stevenson (Bronx) | PSAL | 80 | 57 | |
| 1989 | B | Nazareth (Brooklyn) | CHSAA | East Hampton | NYSPHSAA | 54 | 36 | |
| 1989 | C | Lyons | NYSPHSAA | Nichols (Buffalo) | NYSAISAA | 77 | 70 | |
| 1990 | A | William Grady (Brooklyn) | PSAL | Hempstead | NYSPHSAA | 78 | 67 | |
| 1990 | B | Jamesville-DeWitt | NYSPHSAA | James Monroe (Bronx) | PSAL | 72 | 57 | |
| 1990 | C | Nichols (Buffalo) | NYSAISAA | Rensselaer | NYSPHSAA | 67 | 89 | |
| 1991 | A | Mount Vernon | NYSPHSAA | Abraham Lincoln (Brooklyn) | PSAL | 59 | 49 | |
| 1991 | B | Nottingham (Syracuse) | NYSPHSAA | Julia Richman (NYC) | PSAL | 65 | 49 | |
| 1991 | C | Watervliet | NYSPHSAA | Turner-Carroll (Buffalo) | CHSAA | 82 | 63 | |
| 1992 | A | Bishop Loughlin (Brooklyn) | CHSAA | Greece Athena (Rochester) | NYSPHSAA | 68 | 57 | |
| 1992 | B | George Fowler (Syracuse) | NYSPHSAA | St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute (Tonawanda) | CHSAA | 60 | 59 | |
| 1992 | C | Mynderse Academy (Seneca Falls) | NYSPHSAA | Regis (NYC) | CHSAA | 84 | 91 | |
| 1993 | A | St. Raymond (Bronx) | CHSAA | Walton (Bronx) | PSAL | 96 | 81 | |
| 1993 | B | Norwich | NYSPHSAA | St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute (Tonawanda) | CHSAA | 75 | 69 | |
| 1993 | C | Regis (NYC) | CHSAA | Whitney Point | NYSPHSAA | 43 | 41 | |
| 1994 | A | Rice (NYC) | CHSAA | White Plains | NYSPHSAA | 82 | 54 | |
| 1994 | B | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | Norwich | NYSPHSAA | 71 | 53 | |
| 1994 | C | Cardinal O'Hara (Tonawanda) | CHSAA | Bishop Ludden (Syracuse) | NYSPHSAA | 77 | 72 | |
| 1995 | A | Abraham Lincoln (Brooklyn) | PSAL | Christ the King (Middle Village) | CHSAA | 55 | 52 | |
| 1995 | B | Mount St. Michael (Bronx) | CHSAA | Francis Lewis (Fresh Meadows) | PSAL | 64 | 39 | |
| 1995 | C | Nichols (Buffalo) | NYSAISAA | Sacred Heart (Yonkers) | CHSAA | 74 | 44 | |
| 1996 | A | Rice (NYC) | CHSAA | La Salle (Niagara Falls) | NYSPHSAA | 84 | 65 | |
| 1996 | B | Peekskill | NYSPHSAA | St. Dominic (Oyster Bay) | CHSAA | 62 | 57 | 1 |
| 1996 | C | Buffalo Traditional | NYSPHSAA | Collegiate (NYC) | NYSAISAA | 92 | 71 | |
| 1997 | A | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | Paul Robeson (Brooklyn) | PSAL | 53 | 50 | |
| 1997 | B | St. Dominic (Oyster Bay) | CHSAA | Westhill (Geddes) | NYSPHSAA | 53 | 50 | |
| 1997 | C | Salesian (New Rochelle) | CHSAA | Christian Brothers Academy (DeWitt) | NYSPHSAA | 65 | 62 | |
| 1998 | A | Rice (NYC) | CHSAA | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | 80 | 65 | |
| 1998 | B | Westhampton Beach | NYSPHSAA | Wadleigh (NYC) | PSAL | 62 | 51 | |
| 1998 | C | Turner-Carroll (Buffalo) | CHSAA | Sidney | NYSPHSAA | 68 | 55 | |
| 1999 | A | Rice (NYC) | CHSAA | Cardozo (Bayside) | PSAL | 93 | 65 | |
| 1999 | B | Turner-Carroll (Buffalo) | CHSAA | Southampton | NYSPHSAA | 66 | 63 | |
| 1999 | C | Lawrence Woodmere Academy | NYSAISAA | Salesian (New Rochelle) | CHSAA | 63 | 43 | |
| 2000 | A | Mount Vernon | NYSPHSAA | John F. Kennedy (Bronx) | PSAL | 60 | 58 | |
| 2000 | B | St. Mary's (Manhasset) | CHSAA | Amityville | NYSPHSAA | 55 | 49 | |
| 2000 | C | Poly Prep (Brooklyn) | NYSAISAA | Buffalo Traditional | NYSPHSAA | 51 | 50 | |
| 2001 | A | St. Raymond (Bronx) | CHSAA | Schenectady | NYSPHSAA | 62 | 49 | |
| 2001 | B | Amityville Memorial | NYSPHSAA | Benjamin Banneker Academy (Brooklyn) | PSAL | 91 | 73 | |
| 2001 | C | Buffalo Traditional | NYSPHSAA | Canisius (Buffalo) | CHSAA | 65 | 53 | |
| 2002 | A | Rice (NYC) | CHSAA | Henninger (Syracuse) | NYSPHSAA | 61 | 53 | |
| 2002 | B | St. Mary's (Manhasset) | CHSAA | Amityville Memorial | NYSPHSAA | 65 | 61 | 1 |
| 2002 | C | Lawrence Woodmere Academy | NYSAISAA | Blind Brook (Rye Brook) | NYSPHSAA | 44 | 39 | |
| 2003 | A | Abraham Lincoln (Brooklyn) | PSAL | Christ the King (Middle Village) | CHSAA | 75 | 73 | 1 |
| 2003 | B | Amityville Memorial | NYSPHSAA | Chaminade (Mineola) | CHSAA | 65 | 57 | |
| 2003 | C | Brooklyn Friends | NYSAISAA | City Honors (Buffalo) | NYSPHSAA | 69 | 68 | 1 |
| 2004 | AA | Mount Vernon | NYSPHSAA | Abraham Lincoln (Brooklyn) | PSAL | 66 | 52 | |
| 2004 | A | Jamesville-DeWitt | NYSPHSAA | St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute (Tonawanda) | CHSAA | 77 | 73 | 1 |
| 2004 | B | John F. Kennedy Catholic (Somers) | NYSPHSAA | McKinley Arts (Brooklyn) | PSAL | 81 | 61 | |
| 2004 | D | Blind Brook (Rye Brook) | NYSPHSAA | Tully (Tully, NY) | PSAL | 52 | 43 | |
| 2005 | AA | Niagara Falls | NYSPHSAA | Xaverian (Brooklyn) | CHSAA | 68 | 65 | |
| 2005 | A | St. Anthony's (South Huntington) | CHSAA | Peekskill | NYSPHSAA | 61 | 50 | |
| 2005 | B | Regis (NYC) | CHSAA | Palmyra-Macedon | NYSPHSAA | 64 | 48 | |
| 2006 | AA | Mount Vernon | NYSPHSAA | Abraham Lincoln (Brooklyn) | PSAL | 62 | 60 | |
| 2006 | A | Peekskill | NYSPHSAA | Lawrence Woodmere Academy | NYSAISAA | 81 | 75 | |
| 2006 | B | Global Studies (Brooklyn) | PSAL | Blessed Sacrament (New Rochelle) | CHSAA | 78 | 73 | |
| 2007 | AA | Abraham Lincoln (Brooklyn) | PSAL | Rice (NYC) | CHSAA | 68 | 62 | |
| 2007 | A | Peekskill | NYSPHSAA | Cardinal Hayes (Bronx) | CHSAA | 44 | 42 | |
| 2007 | B | Malverne | NYSPHSAA | Blessed Sacrament (New Rochelle) | CHSAA | 90 | 81 | |
| 2008 | AA | Abraham Lincoln (Brooklyn) | PSAL | Holy Cross (Flushing) | CHSAA | 86 | 67 | |
| 2008 | A | Jamesville-DeWitt | NYSPHSAA | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | 70 | 66 | |
| 2008 | B | Collegiate (NYC) | NYSAISAA | St. Agnes (NYC) | CHSAA | 57 | 44 | |
| 2009 | AA | Rice (NYC) | CHSAA | Newburgh Free Academy | NYSPHSAA | 70 | 68 | 1 |
| 2009 | A | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | Jamesville-DeWitt | NYSPHSAA | 68 | 51 | |
| 2009 | B | Collegiate (NYC) | NYSAISAA | Bishop Kearney (Irondequoit) | NYSPHSAA | 57 | 55 | |
| 2010 | AA | Christ the King (Middle Village) | CHSAA | Boys and Girls (Brooklyn) | PSAL | 52 | 49 | |
| 2010 | A | Nichols (Buffalo) | CHSAA | Jamesville-DeWitt | NYSPHSAA | 65 | 43 | |
| 2010 | B | Collegiate (NYC) | NYSAISAA | Queens H.S. of Teaching | PSAL | 61 | 41 | |
| 2011 | AA | Mount Vernon | NYSPHSAA | Christ the King (Middle Village) | CHSAA | 84 | 78 | 1 |
| 2011 | A | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | St. Mary's (Manhasset) | CHSAA | 78 | 51 | |
| 2011 | B | Collegiate (NYC) | NYSAISAA | Salesian (New Rochelle) | CHSAA | 48 | 46 | |
| 2012 | AA | Boys and Girls (Brooklyn) | PSAL | Mount Vernon | NYSPHSAA | 66 | 60 | |
| 2012 | A | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | Harborfields (Greenlawn) | NYSPHSAA | 62 | 61 | |
| 2012 | B | Collegiate (NYC) | NYSAISAA | Bishop Ludden (Syracuse) | NYSPHSAA | 62 | 52 | |
| 2013 | AA | Christ the King (Middle Village) | CHSAA | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | 73 | 64 | |
| 2013 | A | Albany Academy | NYSAISAA | John Adams (Ozone Park) | PSAL | 50 | 34 | |
| 2013 | B | Monsignor Scanlan (Bronx) | CHSAA | Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom (Bronx) | PSAL | 52 | 50 | |
| 2014 | AA | Christ the King (Middle Village) | CHSAA | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | 58 | 52 | |
| 2014 | A | Scotia-Glenville | NYSPHSAA | Holy Trinity (Hicksville) | CHSAA | 68 | 52 | |
| 2014 | B | Westhill (Geddes) | NYSPHSAA | Regis (NYC) | CHSAA | 65 | 46 | |
| 2015 | AA | Wings Academy (Bronx) | PSAL | Christ the King (Middle Village) | CHSAA | 79 | 73 | |
| 2015 | A | Canisius (Buffalo) | CHSAA | Albany Academy | NYSAISAA | 48 | 44 | |
| 2015 | B | Park (Amherst) | CHSAA | Maspeth | PSAL | 70 | 51 | |
| 2016 | AA | Thomas Jefferson Campus (Brooklyn) | PSAL | Aquinas Institute (Rochester) | NYSPHSAA | 72 | 65 | |
| 2016 | A | Albany Academy | NYSAISAA | Elmont Memorial | NYSPHSAA | 67 | 51 | |
| 2016 | B | Collegiate (NYC) | NYSAISAA | Olean | NYSPHSAA | 49 | 45 | |
| 2017 | AA | Abraham Lincoln (Brooklyn) | PSAL | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | 80 | 63 | |
| 2017 | A | Albany Academy | NYSAISAA | Walton Campus (Bronx) | NYSPHSAA | 76 | 46 | |
| 2017 | B | La Salle Academy (NYC) | CHSAA | Westhill (Geddes) | NYSPHSAA | 80 | 67 | |
| 2018 | AA | Archbishop Stepinac (White Plains) | CHSAA | South Shore Campus (Brooklyn) | PSAL | 88 | 76 | |
| 2018 | A | Park (Amherst) | CHSAA | Albany Academy | NYSAISAA | 59 | 57 | |
| 2018 | B | Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom (Bronx) | PSAL | Mekeel Christian Academy (Scotia) | NYSPHSAA | 74 | 62 | |
| 2019 | AA | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | NYSAISAA | Christ the King (Middle Village) | CHSAA | 51 | 31 | |
| 2019 | A | Albany Academy | NYSAISAA | Frederick Douglass Academy (NYC) | PSAL | 75 | 49 | |
| 2019 | B | Glens Falls | NYSPHSAA | Cardinal O'Hara (Tonawanda) | CHSAA | 88 | 79 | |
| 2020 | | Cancelled, due to coronavirus pandemic | | | | | | |

## Championships by school

Results through 2020:
| Rank | School | Wins | Years |
| 2 | Long Island Lutheran (Brookville) | 8 | 1981, 1982, 1994, 1997, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2019 |
| 3 | Collegiate (NYC) | 6 | 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 |
| 3 | Rice (NYC) | 6 | 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2009 |
| 4 | Abraham Lincoln (Brooklyn) | 5 | 1995, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2017 |
| 1 | Mount Vernon | 9 | 1991, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011,2012, 2017, 2022 |
| 4 | Nichols (Buffalo) | 5 | 1985, 1986, 1990, 1995, 2010 |
| 7 | Albany Academy | 4 | 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019 |
| 7 | Christ the King (Middle Village) | 4 | 1989, 2010, 2013, 2014 |
| 9 | Jamesville-DeWitt | 3 | 1990, 2004, 2008 |
| 9 | Nottingham (Syracuse) | 3 | 1982, 1987, 1991 |
| 9 | Our Saviour Lutheran (Bronx) | 3 | 1981, 1983, 1987 |
| 9 | Peekskill | 3 | 1996, 2006, 2007 |
| 9 | Turner-Carroll (Buffalo) | 3 | 1988, 1998, 1999 |

## Championships by association

Results through 2020:
| Rank | Association | Wins |
| 1 | CHSAA | 45 |
| 2 | NYSPHSAA | 40 |
| 3 | NYSAISAA | 29 |
| 4 | PSAL | 14 |