Mr. Kansas Basketball

The Mr. Kansas Basketball honor recognizes the best high school basketball player in the state of Kansas as voted on by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association.^[1] The players listed below also will have which college they attended, as well as if they were drafted into the NBA draft.^[2] Five different schools have had multiple winners, McPherson has the most. Hayden in Topeka, Leavenworth, Topeka West, and Wichita South have also had multiple winners.

Award winners[]

Year	Player	High School	College	NBA draft
1983	Tom Meier	Hayden	Washburn
1984	Danny Manning	Lawrence	Kansas	1988 NBA Draft: 1st Rnd, 1st overall by the Los Angeles Clippers
1985	Danny Kingcannon	Topeka Highland Park
1986	Steve Henson	McPherson	Kansas State	1990 NBA Draft: 2nd Rnd, 44th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks
1987	J. T. Marshall	Manhattan	Texas State
1988	Gaylon Nickerson	Wichita North	Wichita State*	1994 NBA Draft: 2nd Rnd, 34th overall by the Atlanta Hawks
1989	Val Barnes	Wichita South	Iowa
1990	Tony Arrington	Topeka	Washburn
1991	Brian Henson	McPherson	Kansas State
1992	Ryan Herrs	McPherson	Wichita State
1993	B. J. Williams	Wichita South	Kansas
1994	C. B. McGrath	Topeka West	Kansas
1995	Kris Weems	Schlagle	Stanford
1996	Josh Reid	Brewster	Kansas State
1997	Brett McFall	Olathe South	Wyoming
1998	John Crider	Horton	Washburn
1999	Quentin Buchanan	Junction City	Kansas State
2000	Matt Freije	Shawnee Mission West	Vanderbilt	2004 NBA Draft: 2nd Rnd, 54th overall by the Miami Heat
2001	Wayne Simien	Leavenworth	Kansas	2005 NBA Draft: 1st Rnd, 29th overall by the Miami Heat
2002	Taj Gray	Wichita East	Oklahoma
2003	Aubrey Bruner	McPherson	Barton CCC Central Arkansas
2004	Jordan Fithian	McPherson	Binghamton
2005	Jay Tunnell	Topeka West	Indiana State
2006	Ryan Wedel	Minneapolis	Drake
2007	Tyrel Reed	Burlington	Kansas
2008	Jordan Cyphers	Wichita Southeast	Tennessee State
2009	Jeff Reid	Hayden	Washburn
2010	Nino Williams	Leavenworth	Kansas State
2011	Christian Ulsaker	McPherson	Washburn
2012	Perry Ellis	Wichita Heights	Kansas
2013	No award
2014	No award
2015	Dean Wade	St. John	Kansas State
2016	Drew Pyle	McPherson	Washburn
2017	Matt Pile	Goddard Eisenhower	Nebraska-Omaha
2018	Ben Pyle	McPherson	Western Illinois
2019	Christian Braun	Blue Valley Northwest	Kansas
2020	Xavier Bell	Andover Central	Drexel
2021	Sterling Chapman	Campus	Tulsa

*Committed to Wichita State out of high school, but transferred out after his freshmen year eventually playing for multiple colleges

Multiple winners by school[]

By high school[]

School	Number of Awards	Years
McPherson	8	1986, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2016, 2018
Hayden	2	1983, 2009
Leavenworth	2	2001, 2010
Topeka West	2	1994, 2005
Wichita South	2	1989, 1993

By College[]

School	Number of Awards	Years
Kansas	7	1984, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2007, 2012, 2019
Kansas State	6	1986, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2010, 2015
Washburn	5	1983, 1990, 1998, 2011, 2016
Wichita State	2	1988, 1992

References[]

^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2010-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ http://www.macfeesports.com/TCJALLSTATE.htm

[1] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2010-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] ttp://www.macfeesports.com/TCJALLSTATE.htm

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