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.[1]
The award has been given since 1981 by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (BCAM).[2] 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.[3]
| Year | Winner | High school | University | NBA Draft | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Durral Brooks | ||||
| 2023 | Tyler Jamison | Fairleigh Dickinson | |||
| 2022 | Chansey Willis Jr. | ||||
| 2021 | Pierre Brooks II | ||||
| 2020 | Scooby Johnson | Butler | |||
| 2019 | New Haven High School | DePaul | |||
| 2018 | Clarkston High School | Michigan State / Davidson | |||
| 2017 | 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 | Flint Beecher High School | 2017 NBA draft 2nd round, 51st overall by the Denver Nuggets | |||
| 2012 | |||||
| 2011 | Dwaun Anderson | Suttons Bay High School | |||
| 2010 | |||||
| 2009 | |||||
| 2008 | Brad Redford | Frankenmuth High School | |||
| 2007 | |||||
| 2006 | |||||
| 2005 | 2007 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 23rd overall by the New York Knicks | ||||
| 2004 | Michigan State | ||||
| 2003 | |||||
| 2002 | 2006 NBA draft 2nd Rnd, 34th overall by the Los Angeles Clippers | ||||
| 2001 | |||||
| 2000 | 2002 NBA draft 2nd Rnd, 52nd overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves | ||||
| 1999 | 2001 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 5th overall by the Golden State Warriors | ||||
| 1998 | |||||
| 1997 | 2001 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 6th overall by the Memphis Grizzlies | ||||
| 1996 | Winfred Walton | ||||
| 1995 | 1998 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 6th overall by the Dallas Mavericks | ||||
| 1994 | |||||
| 1993 | |||||
| 1992 | Kenyon Murray | ||||
| 1991 | 1993 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 1st overall by the Orlando Magic | ||||
| 1990 | 1994 NBA draft 2nd Rnd, 39th overall by the Golden State Warriors | ||||
| 1989 | Michael Talley | ||||
| 1988 | 1992 NBA draft 2nd Rnd, 52nd overall by the Chicago Bulls | ||||
| 1987 | 1991 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 8th overall by the Denver Nuggets | ||||
| 1986 | 1990 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 16th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks | ||||
| 1985 | 1989 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 4th overall by the Miami Heat | ||||
| 1984 | Demetreus Gore | ||||
| 1983 | 1987 NBA draft 6th Rnd, 134th overall by the Detroit Pistons | ||||
| 1982 | Robert Henderson (basketball) | Robert Henderson | 1986 NBA draft 7th Rnd, 143rd overall by the Chicago Bulls | ||
| 1981 | 1985 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 20th overall by the Boston Celtics |
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.[4]
| Year | Winner | High school | University |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Michigan | ||
| 1979 | Mio AuSable High School | Bowling Green, Saginaw Valley State | |
| 1978 | Minnesota | ||
| 1977 | Michigan State | ||
| 1976 | Detroit Denby | Washington State | |
| 1975 | Notre Dame | ||
| 1974 | Tony Smith | Nevada-Las Vegas | |
| 1973 | North Carolina | ||
| 1972 | Canisius | ||
| 1971 | Michigan | ||
| 1970 | Rick Drewitz | Kentucky | |
| 1969 | Ernie Johnson | Michigan | |
| 1968 | Michigan State | ||
| 1967 | University of Detroit | ||
| 1966 | Michigan | ||
| 1965 | L. C. Bowen | Bradley | |
| 1964 | Willie Betts | Bradley | |
| 1963 | Michigan | ||
| 1962 | Ernie Thompson | Bradley | |
| 1961 | None | ||
| 1960 | Michigan State | ||
| 1959 | LeMoyne–Owen College | ||
| 1958 | Bradley | ||
| 1957 | Ed Burton | Muskegon Heights | Michigan State |
| 1956 | Stephenson | Wheaton | |
| 1955 | Muskegon Heights | Michigan | |
| 1954 | Michigan | ||
| 1953 | East Detroit | Michigan | |
| 1952 | Frank Tanana | Detroit St. Andrew | Cal State-Fulerton (baseball) |
| 1951 | Webster Kirksey | Eastern Michigan | |
| 1950 | Charlie Primas | Detroit Miller | Wayne State |
| 1949 | Lawrence Tech | ||
| 1948 | Art McColgan | Saginaw SS Peter & Paul | Villanova |
| 1947 | Sammy Gee | Detroit Miller | |
| 1946 | Jack Forestieri | Notre Dame | |
| 1945 | Bob Swanson | Lansing Sexton | |
| 1944 | Michigan | ||
| 1943 | Western Michigan | ||
| 1942 | Larry Savage | Northwestern | |
| 1941 | Don Osterman | Detroit St. Theresa | Villanova |
| 1940 | Ralph Gibert | Michigan | |
| 1939 | Gene Broene | Calvin College | |
| 1938 | John Maartens | ||
| 1937 | Bob Osterman | Detroit St. Theresa | Notre Dame |
| 1936 | Charles Pink | Detroit Northwestern | Michigan |
| 1935 | John Zwier | Holland Christian | |
| 1934 | Earl Brown Jr. | Notre Dame | |
| 1933 | Lincoln Dodson Truss | ||
| 1932 | Lowell Matteson | Portage | |
| 1931 | Edward Huttenga | Grand Haven | Western Michigan |
| 1930 | John Tooker | Kalamazoo St. Augustine | Michigan |
| 1929 | Carnegie Mellon University | ||
| 1928 | Francis 'Dink' Doolittle | ||
| 1927 | Bill McCall | Dartmouth | |
| 1926 | Michigan State | ||
| 1925 | Detroit Northeastern | Michigan | |
| 1924 | Bennie Oosterbaan | Michigan | |
| 1923 | Henry Schrumpf | Niles | Western Michigan |
| 1922 | Royal Cherry | Michigan | |
| 1921 | Michigan | ||
| 1920 | Michigan | ||
| 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 |