# Mr. Basketball of Michigan

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.
The award has been given since 1981 by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (BCAM). 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.

## Mr. Basketball winners

| Year | Winner | High school | University | NBA Draft |
| 2025 | Trey McKenney | St. Mary's Preparatory | Michigan | |
| 2024 | Phat Phat Brooks | Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School | Michigan | |
| 2023 | Tyler Jamison | Port Huron Northern High School | Fairleigh Dickinson / Lake Superior State |
| 2022 | Chansey Willis Jr. | Detroit King High School | Saginaw Valley State / Western Michigan | |
| 2021 | Pierre Brooks II | Detroit Douglass Academy | Michigan State / Butler | |
| 2020 | Scooby 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 |
| 2014 | Deshaun 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 | |
| 2011 | Dwaun Anderson | Suttons Bay High School | Wagner | |
| 2010 | Keith Appling | Detroit Pershing High School | Michigan State | |
| 2009 | Derrick Nix | Detroit Pershing High School | Michigan State | |
| 2008 | Brad Redford | Frankenmuth 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 |
| 1996 | Winfred 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 | |
| 1992 | Kenyon 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 |
| 1989 | Michael 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 |
| 1984 | Demetreus 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 |
| 1982 | Robert 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.
| Year | Winner | High school | University |
| 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 |
| 1974 | Tony 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 |
| 1970 | Rick Drewitz | Garden City West | Kentucky |
| 1969 | Ernie 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 |
| 1965 | L. C. Bowen | Benton Harbor | Bradley |
| 1964 | Willie Betts | River Rouge | Bradley |
| 1963 | Craig Dill | Saginaw Arthur Hill | Michigan |
| 1962 | Ernie 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 |
| 1957 | Ed Burton | Muskegon 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 |
| 1952 | Frank Tanana | Detroit St. Andrew | Cal State-Fulerton (baseball) |
| 1951 | Webster Kirksey | Saginaw | Eastern Michigan |
| 1950 | Charlie Primas | Detroit Miller | Wayne State |
| 1949 | Ken Burrell | Hamtramck | Lawrence Tech |
| 1948 | Art McColgan | Saginaw SS Peter & Paul | Villanova |
| 1947 | Sammy Gee | Detroit Miller | |
| 1946 | Jack Forestieri | Benton Harbor | Notre Dame |
| 1945 | Bob Swanson | Lansing Sexton | |
| 1944 | Dick Rifenburg | Saginaw Arthur Hill | Michigan |
| 1943 | Don Boven | Kalamazoo Central | Western Michigan |
| 1942 | Larry Savage | Saginaw | Northwestern |
| 1941 | Don Osterman | Detroit St. Theresa | Villanova |
| 1940 | Ralph Gibert | Flint Northern | Michigan |
| 1939 | Gene Broene | Grand Rapids Christian | Calvin College |
| 1938 | John Maartens | Kalamazoo Central | |
| 1937 | Bob Osterman | Detroit St. Theresa | Notre Dame |
| 1936 | Charles Pink | Detroit Northwestern | Michigan |
| 1935 | John Zwier | Holland Christian | |
| 1934 | Earl Brown Jr. | Benton Harbor | Notre Dame |
| 1933 | Lincoln Dodson Truss | Flint Northern | |
| 1932 | Lowell Matteson | Portage | |
| 1931 | Edward Huttenga | Grand Haven | Western Michigan |
| 1930 | John Tooker | Kalamazoo St. Augustine | Michigan |
| 1929 | Lou Jagnow | Jackson | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 1928 | Francis 'Dink' Doolittle | Detroit Northwestern | |
| 1927 | Bill McCall | Muskegon | Dartmouth |
| 1926 | Roger Grove | Sturgis | Michigan State |
| 1925 | Joe Truskowski | Detroit Northeastern | Michigan |
| 1924 | Bennie Oosterbaan | Muskegon | Michigan |
| 1923 | Henry Schrumpf | Niles | Western Michigan |
| 1922 | Royal Cherry | Grand Rapids Union | Michigan |
| 1921 | George Haggarty | Ypsilanti | Michigan |
| 1920 | Harry Kipke | Lansing Central | Michigan |

## Most winners by high school (1920-Present)

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