The Greatest Iowa High School Boys Basketball Teams

Thinking about that matchup kinda gets me excited


The GOAT label gets thrown around pretty haphazardly these days. Anyone from NBA greats to players who had a particularly good week are labeled the GOAT on social media. The challenge though is how to determine a truely all-time great when looking at players at different levels, positions, or in different eras. This week the Moonlight Graham Show puts our own spin on the GOAT conversation. Tim welcomes Moonlighters Jack Brownlee and Sean O’Hare to the studio to combine their wealth of Iowa boys' high school knowledge to create an 8 team bracket of the greatest teams from all classes and across time periods.


The GOAT conversation is hard for a lot of reasons. It is hard to set aside your own biases and fandom when talking about a topic you are really invested in. Tim, Sean, and Jack love high school basketball and have watched and played in countless games. As soon as the guys started their research, they realized the task would be even more challenging than they originally thought. Where do you even begin? Legendary names like Hoiberg, Barnes, or the Kennedy brothers? Teams that had winning streaks stretching across seasons like Palmer or Johnston? Or maybe with basketball hotbeds that seem to put a team in the state tourney every year? It is hard enough to compare teams who never could have played each other, but it is almost impossible to compare styles of play. 


As always though, the Moonlight Graham crew was up for the challenge. Tim, Sean, and Jack started by compiling their own lists and then trying to create a bracket to work their way through the controversy. These junkies even discuss the hypothetical offense/defense matchups in the games that never could happen.


It would be appointment viewing


Each of our experts took a different approach but that is what the debate worth having. Enjoy this week's conversation about the greatest boys high school basketball team that Iowa has ever produced. 



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