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In high school, he helped lead Alden-Hebron High School to the 1952 Illinois high school basketball state championship. [2] Judson served as the team captain for the 1955–56 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team and helped guide them to an 18–4 record. [ 3 ]
Alden-Hebron High School is the smallest school to win the Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship. In 1952, with an enrollment of 98 students, the boys team won the state title with an overtime victory over Quincy with a final score of 64-59. At the time, all Illinois schools competed for a single championship, regardless of enrollment.
After his Illinois career came to an end, Kerr started a 12-year professional career followed by becoming the first head coach of the Chicago Bulls in 1966. The 1954 team added twin brothers, Paul and Phil Judson from Hebron, Illinois , Bruce Brothers and Bill Ridley as sophomores.
The 1954-55 team had some talented juniors including the return of twin brothers, Paul and Phil Judson from Hebron, Illinois, Bruce Brothers and Bill Ridley. It also added sophomores George Bon Salle , Bill Altenberger , Hiles Stout , and future Illini head coach, Harv Schmidt .
In 2008, the tournament was divided into four separate divisions (1A, 2A, 3A, and 4A being the larger schools). The Illinois High School Basketball Championship was the first tournament to be called 'March Madness'. The term was first used about the Illinois tournament in 1939, decades before it was used about NCAA basketball tournament.
Harry Combes, for the ninth consecutive year at Illinois, directed a team that would finish no worse than third place in the Big Ten.His 164 wins and 44 losses overall with a 94 and 30 record in the conference gave Combes three "Final Four" finishes as well as three conference championships.
25 high school basketball teams from 11 states are part of the 19th annual Kevin Brown Memorial Tournament of Champions in Washington, Illinois. 2024 Tournament of Champions high school basketball ...
The team was retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. ^B. Jamall Walker coached the last three games of the 2016–17 season in the NIT, going 2–1 as the interim coach. Groce went 18–14 over the first 32 games.