These scores were researched by my good friend Roger Martin, HHS Class of 1967, and a walking encyclopedia on the WNCHSAA. He has been so kind as to share this information with me and wanted anyone else interested to see it as well.i am not sure if 1953 is a starting point for the Championships or if it is a date that Roger chose to begin with.Maybe someone knows why.Enjoy!

WNCHSAA MEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS

1953 Shelby 48 Hickory 36
1954 Kannapolis 55 RS Central 52
1955 Asaheboro 69 Hickory 60
1956 Asheboro def. Valdese no score
1957 Kannapolis 58 Valdese 43
1958 Asheboro 55 Hickory 48
1959 Asheboro 60 Belmont 46
1960 Shelby 50 Statesville 48
1961 Shelby 49 Kannapolis 42
1962 Belmont(west) no score
1963 Hudson 50 Thomasville 42
1964 RS Central 54 Albemarle 45
1965 Hickory 54, Albemarle 50
1966 Albemarle 60 Valdese 42
1967 Kannapolis Brown 70, Rutherford-Spindale 61
1968 Kannapolis Brown 63, Kings Mtn. 58
1969 Salisbury 56, Shelby 50
1970 Salisbury 50, Marion 35
1971 Salisbury 41, Shelby Crest 33
1972 E. Rutherford 60, Morganton Freedom 42
1973 Shelby Crest 53, Shelby 50
1974 Shelby Crest 50, Shelby 40
1975 N. Davidson 63, E. Rowan 58
1976 Asheboro 64, Shelby 59
1977 Shelby 55, N. Rowan 54

WNCHSAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS WOMEN

1953 Statesville 84 Lincolnton 80
1954 Lincolnton 67 Barium Springs 51
1955 Lincolnton 100 Statesville 92
1956 Taylorsville defeated Landis (no score)
1957 Taylorsville 66 Winecoff 61
1958 Kannapolis 60 Hickory 46
1959 Taylorsville 79 Thomasville 56
1960 Asheboro 67 Taylorsville 59
1961 Taylorsville 90 Kannapolis 61
1962 Chase (west) no scores
1963 Taylorsville 61 Kannapolis 37
1964 East Rutherford 43 Monroe 24
1965 Lincolnton 46, Concord 32
1966 Morganton 48 Statesville 40
1967 Shelby Chase 52 Concord 42
1968 Shelby Chase 44 Concord 34
1969 Marion 38 Kannapolis 31
1970 Mooresville 35 Marion 33
1971 Newton-Conover 35 Marion 28
1972 South Point 59 McDowell 53
1973 South Point 60 Burns 37
1974 East Rowan 62 Morganton Freedom 56
1975 Statesville 57 Alexander Central 50
1976 North Stanly 62 North Gaston 41
1977 North Gaston 62 North Stanly 44

no konkord the "basketball-school"....ha, we have more titles overall....

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won-derrrrrrrs!

Tell him thanks for for doing this. I almost wonder if the format changed in the early 70's to four-team tournament, as the finalists are both from the western conferences? Prior to that, the games are one piedmont school and one western (with the exception of 1953?).

It was around 1953 that the WNCHSAA went from two leagues (South Piedmont and Western) to four (North Piedmont, South Piedmont, Northwestern, Southwestern).

Funny that Crest won in 1973 and 1974, but not in the years previous (when David Thompson would have been there...he would have been on the losing '71 team).

Interesting that Asheboro and Albemarle, the South Piedmont power teams of the 60's and 70's, didn't fare any better at the championship level.

I noticed a mistake. Freedom did not open till the fall 1973 so that had to have been Morganton High School.

don't even go there, don't make me pull out all of Concord wnchsaa football titles!!

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During the WNCHSAA years, or at least the ones I recall and have researched, Concord was rarely a basketball power - though apparently the women were strong for a while in the 60's, which I did not know.

Concord had a good few years when Robert Earl Blue (former UNCC alltime scoring leader before Cornbread Maxwell et al) was there late-60's, but we usually had middle-of-the-road teams. Never terrible, but rarely conference champs. Larry Woods had some good teams in the mid to late-70's and early-80's, but it wasn't until Bo Brickels came on the scene that Concord became a basketball power.

By the way, since the women's titles are listed here, that one of the main reasons for the creation of the WNCHSAA in 1929 was to provide for girls interscholastic athletics? The NCHSAA was well behind the curve in that.

2 (35 & 47)

It is Freedom High.The year is 1974 and Morganton High school was closed.

I was talking about the boys one from 1972.

That one should be credited to Morganton and not Freedom.

THP shoot me an email to tornadoduck72@yahoo.com.I have some more WNCHSAA information and scores for you.

thp, How many wnchsa football titles does Concord have, I thought it was 5, Kannapolis may have 2

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Concord has WNCHSAA titles in 1935 and 1947 (NCHSAA in 1929, 2004 and 2006).

Kannapolis tied Hickory for the 1960 WNCHSAA title 0-0. They have NCHSAA titles in 1989 and 1997.