Deep in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where churches and Christmas tree farms line a narrow two-lane highway, and where cell phone service goes to die, you will find Oak Hill Academy.
The small, co-ed, Baptist-affiliated prep school sits all alone in Mouth of Wilson, Va., on the western banks of the New River, just a few miles from the North Carolina border. And though it’s hard to believe once you see the area, that tiny school, secluded from much of the outside world, is where several of basketball’s biggest names got their start.
In fact, Oak Hill is regarded as the best prep basketball program in the entire nation, and has been for some time.