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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