Wisconsin Mr. Basketball

Each year the Wisconsin Mr. Basketball award is given to the person chosen as the best high school boys basketball player in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, in the United States.

The award has been given since 1982. Winners are chosen by the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association at the time of their annual All-State selections. Most of the award winners have gone on to play at the highest levels of college basketball, and some have gone on to play in the National Basketball Association.[1]

Voting is done by a panel of retired members that select the winner after receiving nomination information and reviewing film on each candidate.

Only those in the Senior class are eligible to win in Wisconsin.

Annual award winners

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Year Winner High school University NBA Draft Ref
2024 Kon Knueppel Wisconsin Lutheran High School Duke [2]
2023 (tie) John Kinziger De Pere High School Illinois State [3]
2023 (tie) Milan Momcilovic Pewaukee High School Iowa State
2022 Seth Trimble Menomonee Falls High School North Carolina [4]
2021 Brandin Podziemski St. John's Northwestern Military Academy Illinois, Santa Clara 2023 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 19th overall by the Golden State Warriors [5]
2020 Johnny Davis La Crosse Central Wisconsin 2022 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 10th overall by the Washington Wizards [6]
2019 Marcus Domask Waupun Southern Illinois, Illinois
2018 Jordan McCabe Kaukauna West Virginia [7]
2017 Kobe King La Crosse Central Wisconsin, Nebraska, Valparaiso
2016 (tie) Sam Hauser Stevens Point Marquette, Virginia
2016 (tie) Trevor Anderson Stevens Point UW-Green Bay, Wisconsin, Valparaiso
2015 (tie) Henry Ellenson Rice Lake Marquette 2016 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 18th overall by the Detroit Pistons
2015 (tie) Diamond Stone Dominican Maryland 2016 NBA draft: 2nd Rnd, 40th overall by the New Orleans Pelicans
2014 Kevon Looney Milwaukee Hamilton UCLA 2015 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 30th overall by the Golden State Warriors
2013 Luke Fischer Germantown Indiana, Marquette
2012 Sam Dekker Sheboygan Lutheran Wisconsin 2015 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 18th overall by the Houston Rockets
2011 Nimrod Hilliard IV Madison East South Dakota, Lamar, North Carolina Central
2010 T. J. Bray Catholic Memorial Princeton
2009 Jeronne Maymon Madison Memorial Marquette, Tennessee
2008 DeMarcus Phillips Milwaukee Washington Iowa State
2007 (tie) Keaton Nankivil Madison Memorial Wisconsin
2007 (tie) Scott Christopherson La Crosse Aquinas Marquette, Iowa State
2006 Andy Polka Oshkosh West Loyola
2005 Wesley Matthews Madison Memorial Marquette
2004 Harris Nelson Madison Memorial North Dakota State
2003 Brian Butch Appleton West Wisconsin
2002 Greg Brown Milwaukee Vincent Missouri State
2001 Devin Harris Wauwatosa East Wisconsin 2004 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 5th overall by the Washington Wizards
2000 Mike Wilkinson Wisconsin Heights Wisconsin
1999 Marshall Williams Milwaukee Vincent North Carolina State
1998 Jose Winston Milwaukee Vincent Colorado, UW-Milwaukee
1997 Mike Wilks Milwaukee Rufus King Rice
1996 Brad Clark Markesan UW-Oshkosh
1995 Sam Okey Cassville Wisconsin, Iowa
1994 Jim Secretarski Hartland Arrowhead Siena
1993 Anthony Pieper Wausaukee Marquette
1992 Greg Timmerman Cuba City Wisconsin, North Dakota
1991 Calvin Rayford Milwaukee Washington Kansas
1990 Damon Key Milwaukee Marquette Marquette
1989 Chris Jones Milwaukee Hamilton Kansas
1988 Tony Bennett Green Bay Preble UW-Green Bay 1992 NBA draft: 2nd Rnd, 35th overall by the Charlotte Hornets
1987 Mike Johnson Phillips Creighton, UW-Eau Claire
1986 Kurt Portmann Sheboygan North Wisconsin
1985 Dave Mueller Racine St. Catherine's Michigan State
1984 Robert Barnes Racine Horlick Wisconsin, UW-Whitewater
1983 Joe Wolf Kohler North Carolina 1987 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 13th overall by the Los Angeles Clippers
1982 Rick Olson Madison La Follette Wisconsin

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "403 Forbidden | Just a Game Fieldhouse".
  2. ^ "Wisconsin Lutheran's Kon Knueppel named Mr. Basketball by WBCA". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Mar 13, 2024.
  3. ^ Miller, Mark (March 17, 2023). "Kinziger, Momcilovic share WBCA Mr. Basketball award". wissports.net. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
  4. ^ "Menomonee Falls' Trimble selected as 2022 Mr. Basketball by WBCA". Wissports. Mar 19, 2022.
  5. ^ "Wisconsin Mr. Basketball Brandin Podziemski announces his college commitment". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. April 13, 2021.
  6. ^ "Johnny Davis named Wisconsin Mr. Basketball". Badger 247. Mar 17, 2020.
  7. ^ "Jordan McCabe named Wisconsin's Mr. Basketball for 2018". USA Today - High School Sports. Mar 20, 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.