History
The BCL was founded in 1972, after the Baltimore high school basketball season culminated with Mt. St. Joseph High School defeated Dunbar High School in the MSA Championship game. This game is known as one of the most remarkable and controversial games in Baltimore high school basketball history. The impetus for the creation of the BCL arrived in the off-season. The goal was to make a separate division from the MSA, which is the league for all high school athletics in the Baltimore area, public or private. The BCL created a division that was strictly for Baltimore area Catholic High Schools.
It is alleged that the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC) was the model for the BCL. The BCL was originally composed of most of the schools in the list below; with the most recent addition being The John Carroll School in 2010-11. Our Lady of Mount Carmel will join the league for the 2011-12 season. At different times during the league's history, Archbishop Curley High School has been a member.
The Cardinal Gibbons School has the most BCL championships to date. O. Ray Mullis, head coach at Cardinal Gibbons, has the most all-time wins of any coach in Baltimore City history (621 wins) while simultaneously claiming the most BCL championships. Other notable coaches in the league included Mark Amatucci, formerly of Calvert Hall College, who won a national championship in the early 80s; Cokey Robertson, formerly of St. Maria Goretti High School, Pat Clatchey, of Mount Saint Joseph High School, William Wells, formerly of (St.Frances Academy) and Jerry Savage, formerly of Loyola Blakefield.
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