Top 10 boys basketball teams of the MaxPreps era

America's source for high school sports celebrates 10 years by looking back at top teams, athletes, games and moments.

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Jul 18, 2012, 12:00am
Only five teams kept the final margin under 20 points against Bob Hurley's Friars during the 2007-08 season.
Only five teams kept the final margin under 20 points against Bob Hurley's Friars during the 2007-08 season.
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2. 2007-08 St. Anthony (Jersey City, N.J.)
Head coach: Bob Hurley
Record: 32-0
Season highlights: MaxPreps national champions, New Jersey Tournament of Champions winners, T-Mobile Invitational champions
Key contributors: Mike Rosario, Tyshawn Taylor, Travon Woodall, Jio Fontan, Dominic Cheek
Legacy: High school basketball is a guard's game and few teams in history stack up with this Friar team in the backcourt. Rosario (Rutgers/Florida), Taylor (Kansas), Woodall (Pittsburgh) and Fontan (Fordham/USC) all wound up at high major college programs and helped St. Anthony crush opponents by an average margin of 39 points per game. After a series of disappointments against rival St. Patrick, the 07-08 Friars beat a Kevin Boyle-coached Celtics team – featuring Dexter Strickland, Quintrell Thomas and a young Michael Kidd-Gilchrist – in a defining, postseason showdown.

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