page_title: Baltimore City College basketball
section_title: MPSSAA era (1993-present)
hierarchical_section_title: Baltimore City College basketball / History / MPSSAA era (1993-present)
caption_attribution_description: English: Former City College guard CJ Fair preps for free throw in a game at City College in Jan 2008.
context_page_description: The Baltimore City College basketball team, known as the "Knights", or formerly, the "Collegians", "Castlemen", and "Alamedans", has represented Baltimore City College, the city of Baltimore's flagship public college preparatory school, for more than 100 years. One of the earliest recorded results in program history is a one-point overtime road loss to the University of Maryland Terrapins on January 25, 1913. In 1919, the school was invited to join the Maryland Scholastic Association as a founding member and won MSA A-Conference championships in 1922, 1923, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1969.
  City College joined its current athletic association, the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, in 1993. The Black Knights have won three Maryland state championships City College has advanced to boys basketball state semifinals six times in school history, third most among Baltimore City League teams. Baltimore City College has finished the season as the No. 1-ranked team in The Baltimore Sun metro boys basketball poll and ranked among the top-20 nationally in the USA Today Super 25 boys basketball poll twice since 2010.
context_section_description: Baltimore City College has won three MPSSAA state championships (2009, 2010, and 2014). City is one of just five schools in Maryland that have won three or more boys basketball state titles since 2000.
  The Knights have advanced to the MPSSAA state tournament semifinals six times (1997, 1998, 1999, 2009, 2010, and 2014), third most all-time among Baltimore City League teams.
  Wayne Cook took over as head boys basketball coach in 1989 and led the Knights to the school's final Maryland Scholastic Association (MSA) victory in 1993. Following 10-10 finish in 1994, Daryl Wade replaced Cook as head boys basketball coach in 1995. In his second season at the helm, Coach Wade led the Knights to the first Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA) state tournament semifinal appearance in school history in 1997, the school's fourth year as a MPSSAA member. Coach Wade led City College boys basketball to two additional trips to the MPSSAA state semifinals in 1998 and 1999 before leaving the program to coach at nearby Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School in 2000.
  In 2005, longtime Towson Catholic High School coach Mike Daniel was named head coach at Baltimore City College. In his first season as head coach, Daniels led Baltimore City College to a record of 15 wins and 8 losses, a major improvement over the 2004-05 season in which the Black Knights won just two games al season. In his next two seasons, Coach Daniel led City College to back-to-back 20-win seasons, including a 20-5 win-loss record in 2007 and a 20-4 mark in 2008. In his fourth season, Coach Daniel guided the team to the MPSSAA state tournament championship in 2009, the first boys basketball state title in school history. After guiding the Knights to back-to-back MPSSAA state championships, a 24-3 record, and a No. 1 ranking in the final The Baltimore Sun boys basketball poll, Mike Daniel was named All-Metro Coach of the Year in 2010. In 2011, City College ended its season with a mark of 16-9, ranked No 6. in the The Baltimore Sun boys basketball poll, and with a loss to Edmondson-Westside High School in the MPSSAA regional semifinals. Coach Daniel left the program at the conclusion of the 2011 season to take over as head coach at Severn High School in suburban Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
  At the start of the 2011-2012 season, Daryl Wade re-joined the program for the second time as head boys basketball coach. The 2012 team finished the season with a record of 21-6 and lost in the MPSSAA regional semifinals to Patterson High School, which went on to capture the state championship.  In 2013, the Knights compiled a 20-6 record and a No. 8 ranking in the final The Baltimore Sun boys basketball poll, but fell in the MPSSAA regional final again to the eventual state champions. With an undefeated record of 27-0, the Knights finished the 2014 season as the No. 18-ranked team in the United States in the final USA Today Super 25 and Student Sports Fab 50 national boys basketball polls. City College began the 2015 season ranked No. 10 in the The Baltimore Sun boys basketball poll. The Knights' 30-game win streak, which spanned two seasons, ended in the school's Baltimore City League opener against arch-rival Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, the Engineers' first win over City College in nearly 10 years.
  Omarr Smith, B.C.C. '98, was named head boys basketball coach before the start of the 2017-18 season. In 2019-20, Coach Smith led the Knights to its longest winning streak (12 games) since the program finished the 2013-14 season with 27 consecutive wins.
caption: Former City College forward C. J. Fair prepares for a free throw during a game in 2008. Fair later became an All-Atlantic Coast Conference and All-American player for the Syracuse Orange.
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