Rivals.com FAB 50 Basketball | Rivals High | last sorted on 4/1/2008

Compiled by Doug Huff & Mark Tennis of Student Sports

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Led by No. 1 and No. 2 St. Anthony of Jersey City and St. Benedict’s of Newark, this year’s final Rivals.com FAB 50 boys basketball national rankings are certainly good for New Jersey, but they also turned out to be good for California as no less than 10 teams from the Golden State ended up among the elite.

The final California team that had to go into the rankings was Campbell Hall of North Hollywood, which benefited from what happened in the Minnesota Class 4A state playoffs. First, previous FAB 50-ranked Hopkins of Minnetonka was knocked out by cross-town rival Minnetonka and then last weekend Minnetonka (28-3) ended up winning the state title with a 68-59 victory over Sibley of Mendota Heights. Earlier in the season, Minnetonka took on Campbell Hall and its UCLA-bound All-American standout, Jrue Holiday, and lost by a 90-61 score at the Target Center.

Campbell Hall’s victory over Minnetonka was one of many by California teams against top-level out-of-state opponents, including Fairfax of Los Angeles topping St. Patrick’s of New Jersey and Archbishop Mitty of San Jose beating New York Federation state finalist Holy Cross.

Speaking of Holy Cross, Sunday’s title game of the New York Federation Class AA state tournament saw the Knights fall to Lincoln of Brooklyn, 86-67. It was the second straight state title for the New York Public School Athletic League champs, who displayed too much depth for Holy Cross.

Lance Stephenson, ranked as one of the nation’s top juniors, led the Railsplitters with 16 points and 14 rebounds. He didn’t play for the entire second period after receiving a technical foul for dunking the ball after a timeout had been called. Teammate Justin Greene, also named to the all-tourney squad, helped Lincoln build its lead even with Stephenson on the bench.

Sylvan Landesberg, who played in the McDonald’s All-American Game in Milwaukee earlier in the week, had 31 points and 11 rebounds in his final game for Holy Cross.

In addition to Campbell Hall and Minnetonka (now at No. 50), other teams that went into the final FAB 50 rankings that were previously unranked include Kentucky Sweet 16 champ Mason County; Davis of Kaysville, Utah; Brownsburg, the Indiana largest class state champ; Jamesville-Dewitt of New York; and Newark of Ohio.

Records are for games completed Monday March 30, 2008
 

	Team	City	State	Record	Pvs.
1	St. Anthony	Jersey City	NJ	32-0	1
2	St. Benedict's HS	Newark	NJ	24-1	2
3	North Crowley	Fort Worth	TX	38-1	3
4	Chester	Chester	PA	33-1	4
5	Saginaw	Saginaw	MI	27-1	5
6	Oak Hill Academy	Mouth Of Wilson	VA	34-4	6
7	Norcross	Norcross	GA	29-2	7
8	Gonzaga	Washington D.C.	DC	34-1	8
9	McClymonds	Oakland	CA	32-0	9
10	Duncanville	Duncanville	TX	36-2	10
11	Joel E. Ferris	Spokane	WA	29-0	11
12	Abraham Lincoln	Brooklyn	NY	32-4	15
13	Dominguez	Compton	CA	31-3	12
14	Mater Dei	Santa Ana	CA	35-1	13
15	Marshall Metropolitan	Chicago	IL	32-4	14
16	Wheeler	Marietta	GA	30-3	16
17	St. Patrick	Elizabeth	NJ	25-5	17
18	Archbishop Mitty	San Jose	CA	31-2	18
19	Lone Peak	Highland	UT	22-2	19
20	Rice	New York	NY	22-4	26
21	Dillard	Ft Lauderdale	FL	29-2	21
22	Santa Margarita	Rancho Santa Margarita	CA	30-5	20
23	Ridgeway	Memphis	TN	34-3	24
24	Mason County	Maysville	KY	24-4	NR
25	Simeon	Chicago	IL	29-4	25
26	Dulles	Sugarland	TX	34-5	30
27	Martin Luther King	Riverside	CA	32-3	31
28	Klein Forest	Houston	TX	33-4	33
29	Taft	Woodland Hills	CA	27-4	34
30	Chillicothe	Chillicothe	OH	25-2	32
31	Hillcrest	Tuscaloosa	AL	33-3	37
32	LeFlore	Mobile	Al	30-3	38
33	Fairfax	Los Angeles	CA	27-6	39
34	Westchester	Los Angeles	CA	28-5	40
35	South Oak Cliff	Dallas	TX	26-8	35
36	Yates	Houston	TX	26-3	36
37	Davis	Kaysville	UT	22-1	NR
38	Miami Norland	Miami	FL	26-6	42
39	Campbell Hall	N Hollywood	CA	31-5	NR
40	Brownsburg	Brownsburg	IN	22-5	NR
41	Boyd Anderson	Lauderdale Lakes	FL	30-2	48
42	Central	Omaha	NE	25-3	43
43	Elkins	Missouri City	TX	31-4	44
44	Hall	Little Rock	AR	29-2	45
45	Jamesville-Dewitt	Dewitt	NY	26-2	NR
46	Webster Groves	Webster Groves	MO	29-5	46
47	Helen Cox	Harvey	LA	36-7	41
48	Newark	Newark	OH	24-4	NR
49	Moeller	Cincinnati	OH	21-2	49
50	Minnetonka	Minnetonka	MN	28-3	NR

Dropped Out: Previous No. 22 Lexington Catholic (Lexington, Ky.); No. 23 Holy Cross (Flushing, N.Y.); No. 27 Hopkins (Minnetonka, Minn.); No. 28 Bishop Maginn (Albany, N.Y.); No. 29 Marion (Marion, Ind.); No. 47 Memorial (Tulsa, Okla.); No. 50 Putnam City (Oklahoma City, Okla.).

The Rivals.com Fab 50 is compiled by the staff of StudentSportsBasketball.com and is co-edited by Student Sports Executive Editor Mark Tennis and Rankings Editor Doug Huff. Student Sports has tracked and ranked the nation's top high school teams for more than a decade.