Honor awarded to high school basketball players
The Kentucky Mr. Basketball honor recognizes the top high school senior basketball player in the state of Kentucky . The first Kentucky Mr. Basketball was "King" Kelly Coleman of Wayland High School in 1956. The winner of the Mr. Basketball award wears #1 on his jersey in the summer all-star series against the Indiana High School All-Stars. 1940 was the first year for the Kentucky/Indiana High School All-Star Series, that year, the Indiana All-Stars defeated the Kentucky All-Stars 31–29. The Kentucky Mr. Basketball award is the third oldest such award in the nation; only Indiana Mr. Basketball and California Mr. Basketball, which were first awarded in 1939 and 1950, respectively, predate it.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
The award is presented annually by the Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation.[ 4]
NBA teams listed are teams known, or teams that drafted the player.
Year Player High School College NBA Draft 1954 Vernon Hatton Lafayette Kentucky 1958 NBA draft : 2nd round, 10th overall by the Cincinnati Royals 1955 Kenny Kuhn Male 1956 Kelly Coleman Wayland[ 5] Kentucky Wesleyan 1960 NBA draft : 2nd round, 11th overall by the New York Knicks 1957 Billy Ray Lickert Lafayette Kentucky 1961 NBA draft : 5th round, 45th overall by the L.A. Lakers 1958 (tie) Ralph Richardson Russell County Eastern Kentucky 1958 (tie) Harry Todd Earlington[ 6] Western Kentucky 1959 Pat Doyle North Marshall[ 7] Kentucky 1960 Jeff Mullins Lafayette Duke 1964 NBA draft : 1st round, 5th overall by the St. Louis Hawks 1961 Randy Embry Owensboro Kentucky 1962 Mike Silliman St. Xavier Army 1966 NBA draft : 8th round, 69th overall by the New York Knicks 1963 Mike R. Redd Seneca Kentucky Wesleyan 1964 Wes Unseld Seneca Louisville 1968 NBA draft : 1st round, 2nd overall by the Baltimore Bullets 1965 Butch Beard Breckinridge County Louisville 1969 NBA draft : 1st round, 10th overall by the Atlanta Hawks 1966 Mike Casey Shelby County Kentucky 1967 Jim McDaniels Allen County[ 8] Western Kentucky 1971 NBA draft : 2nd round, 23rd overall by the Seattle SuperSonics 1968 Terry Davis Shelby County Western Kentucky 1969 Ron King Central Florida State 1970 Robert Brooks Madison [ 9] Eastern Kentucky 1971 Jimmy Dan Conner Anderson County Kentucky 1975 NBA draft : 2nd round, 36th overall by the Phoenix Suns 1972 Jerry Thruston Owensboro Mercer 1973 Wesley Cox Male Louisville 1977 NBA draft : 1st round, 18th overall by the Golden State Warriors 1974 Jack Givens Bryan Station Kentucky 1978 NBA draft : 1st round, 16th overall by the Atlanta Hawks 1975 Dom Fucci Tates Creek Auburn 1976 Darrell Griffith Male Louisville 1980 NBA draft : 1st round, 2nd overall by the Utah Jazz 1977 Jeff Lamp Ballard [ 10] Virginia 1981 NBA draft : 1st round, 15th overall by the Portland Trail Blazers 1978 Doug Schloemer Holmes Cincinnati 1979 Dirk Minniefield Lafayette Kentucky 1983 NBA draft : 2nd round, 33rd overall by the Dallas Mavericks 1980 Ervin Stepp Phelps Eastern Kentucky Alice Lloyd College 1981 Phil Cox Cawood[ 11] Vanderbilt 1982 Todd May Virgie[ 12] Kentucky Pikeville 1987 NBA draft : 4th round, 73rd overall by the San Antonio Spurs 1983 Winston Bennett Male Kentucky 1988 NBA draft : 3rd round, 64th overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers 1984 Steve Miller Henry Clay Western Kentucky 1985 Tony Kimbro Seneca Louisville 1986 Rex Chapman Apollo Kentucky 1988 NBA draft : 1st round, 8th overall by the Charlotte Hornets 1987 John Pelphrey Paintsville Kentucky 1988 Richie Farmer Clay County Kentucky 1989 Allan Houston Ballard [ 10] Tennessee 1993 NBA draft : 1st round, 11th overall by the Detroit Pistons 1990 Dwayne Morton Louisville Central Louisville 1994 NBA draft : 2nd round, 45th overall by the Golden State Warriors 1991 Jermaine Brown Fairdale Georgetown (KY) 1992 Tick Rogers Hart County Louisville 1993 Jason Osborne Male Louisville 1994 Elton Scott Marion County West Virginia 1995 Charles Thomas Harlan[ 13] Eastern Kentucky 1996 Daymeon Fishback Greenwood Auburn 1997 Brandon Davenport Owensboro Lindsey Wilson College 1998 J. R. VanHoose Paintsville Marshall 1999 Rick Jones Scott County Vanderbilt Murray State 2000 Scott Hundley Scott County Vanderbilt 2001 Josh Carrier Bowling Green Kentucky 2002 Brandon Stockton Glasgow Kentucky 2003 Ross Neltner Highlands LSU Vanderbilt 2004 Chris Lofton Mason County Tennessee 2005 Domonic Tilford Jeffersontown South Alabama 2006 Walt Allen South Laurel Presbyterian 2007 Steffphon Pettigrew Elizabethtown Western Kentucky 2008 Darius Miller Mason County Kentucky 2012 NBA draft : 2nd round, 46th overall by the New Orleans Hornets 2009 Jon Hood Madisonville North Hopkins Kentucky 2010 Elisha Justice Shelby Valley Louisville Pikeville 2011 Anthony Hickey Christian County LSU Oklahoma State 2012 Nathan Dieudonne Trinity Boston University 2013 Dominique Hawkins Madison Central Kentucky 2014 Quentin Snider Ballard Louisville 2015 Camron Justice Knott County Central Vanderbilt IUPUI Western Kentucky 2016 Carson Williams Owen County Northern Kentucky Western Kentucky 2017 Taveion Hollingsworth Dunbar Western Kentucky 2018 Trevon Faulkner Mercer County Northern Kentucky 2019 Dontaie Allen Pendleton County Kentucky 2020 Dayvion McKnight Martha Layne Collins Western Kentucky 2021 Ben Johnson Lexington Catholic Bellarmine 2022 Turner Buttry[ 14] Bowling Green Eastern Kentucky 2023 Reed Sheppard [ 15] North Laurel Kentucky 2024 NBA draft : 1st round, 3rd overall by the Houston Rockets 2024 Travis Perry Lyon County Kentucky
Schools with multiple winners [ edit ] School Number of Awards Years Male 5 1955, 1973, 1976, 1983, 1993 Lafayette 4 1954, 1957, 1960, 1979 Ballard 3 1977, 1989, 2014 Owensboro 3 1961, 1972, 1997 Seneca 3 1963, 1964, 1985 Shelby Valley [1] 2 1982, 2010 Mason County 2 2004, 2008 Bowling Green 2 2001, 2022 Scott County 2 1999, 2000 Paintsville 2 1987, 1998 Shelby County 2 1966, 1968
1.^ Colleges with multiple winners [ edit ] College Number of Awards Years Kentucky 21 1954, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1966, 1971, Louisville 10 1964, 1965, 1973, 1976, 1985, 1990, Western Kentucky 9 1958, 1967, 1968, 1984, 2007, 2015, Vanderbilt 5 1981, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2015 Eastern Kentucky 5 1958, 1970, 1980, 1995, 2022 Northern Kentucky 2 2016, 2018 LSU 2 2003, 2011 Pikeville 2 1982, 2010 Tennessee 2 1989, 2004 Auburn 2 1975, 1996 Kentucky Wesleyan 2 1956, 1963
^ Mr. Basketball ^ California Mr. Basketball ^ Indiana Mr. Basketball ^ "Hood Named Mr. Basketball - KENTUCKY OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE" . www.ukathletics.com . Archived from the original on 2009-04-10.^ School now defunct; consolidated into today's Allen Central High School . ^ Consolidated into South Hopkins and West Hopkins High Schools, which in turn were consolidated into today's Hopkins County Central High School. ^ Consolidated into Marshall County High School in 1974. ^ Consolidated into today's Allen County Scottsville High School . ^ This school, located in Richmond , closed in 1989; its former attendance zone is now served by Madison Central High School . ^ a b This is the school in Louisville—not to be confused with Ballard Memorial High School, which serves Ballard County in the far-west Purchase . ^ This school was closed in 2008 and consolidated into Harlan County High School . ^ Consolidated into today's Shelby Valley High School . ^ Although this school, like Cawood High, is in Harlan County, it did not close in 2008. It is operated by the Harlan city school district, while Cawood was operated by the county's district. ^ Frakes, Jason (March 21, 2022). "Check out the winners of the 2022 Kentucky Mr. and Miss Basketball awards" . Retrieved May 22, 2022 . ^ "Reed Sheppard named Mr. Basketball; Haven Ford named Miss Basketball" . Lexington Herald Leader . Retrieved March 20, 2023 .
High school Mr. Basketball awards by state
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