led his team to third place (2003) and a state title (2005). Jack Sikma (St. Anne HS) • Hall of Fame basketball player and assistant coach • led his basketball team to a fourth-place finish in Class A. Isiah Thomas (St. Joseph HS) • basketball player, coach, executive • led his basketball team to second place in 1978. National High School Hall of Fame inductees Twenty-three Illinoisans are members of the National High School Hall of Fame sponsored by the NFHS. The honorees include: H. V. Porter (1982) was an IHSA and NFHS administrator who coined the term "March Madness". Dwight (Dike) Eddleman (1983) was a three-sport athlete (football, basketball, athletics) at Centralia High School. Harold (Red) Grange (1984) was a football player at Wheaton High School. Bart Conner (1986) was a gymnast at Niles West High School. John L. Griffith (1986) was the first commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, and a contributor to high school athletics. Quinn Buckner (1989) was a basketball player at Thornridge High School. Gordie Gillespie (1989) was a football coach at Joliet Catholic Academy. Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1989) was a track & field athlete at Lincoln High School in East St. Louis. Joe Newton (2004) was a cross country coach at York Community High School. See also List of Illinois High School Association member conferences National Federation of State High School Associations Illinois high school boys basketball championship Illinois Elementary School Association Notes 1The total of 52 counts the high school association of the District of Columbia and the two associations in Iowa, of which the latter has separate governing bodies for boys' and girls' school activities. 2The IHSA sponsors three classes of competitive cheerleading. In addition, there is a fourth class for coed cheerleading teams. 3While boys' golf did not have a team champion until 1938, the IHSA sponsored an individual tournament in 1916, and from 1919 onward. 4Boys' tennis did not have a team champion until 1936, but the IHSA sponsored individual tournaments from 1912 to 1915, and then from 1919 onward. 5The seventeen state titles in Girls Track and Field were won by Lincoln High School in East St. Louis. This school closed after the 1997–98 school year. East St. Louis Senior High School is the caretaker of these records, though the school has not won any state titles in this sport since the merger. 6Football is the only sport to which