The amazing 223rd Annual Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, Arizona’s original showcase basketball event, was held on two separate weekend’s this year – for boy’s and girl’s Arizona varsity high school teams. Each varsity program was featured in two games on the day. The girl’s Fall Showcase took place first on Saturday, October 2nd, 2021, and the boy’s Fall Showcase was held the following weekend, on Saturday, October 9th at The PHHACILITY, for both weekends. The Girl’s Fall Showcase event was an exciting event – filled with numerous high school varsity girl’s programs for the event. There were many top individual and team performances throughout the event. As a result of…
Author: Anthony Ray
It has been a long time coming for the Skyline Prep basketball program, as the program has desired for some time to build a National Team that can compete against the best prep programs in the West. The time has finally come for the sister program of top-rated national program AZ Compass Prep to take center stage and produce their own level of college basketball prospects – giving the state of Arizona another gifted basketball program for college programs to follow. While several other coaches at the program had looked to help lead the Skyline Prep program to new heights,…
After recently committing to a new prep program, now Dream City Christian Prep’s 6-foot-4 senior combo-guard Nate Pickens has committed to a college program as well. While gearing up for a nice senior season on a very loaded ball club at Dream City, Pickens can now rest assure after giving a verbal pledge on Thursday evening to UC-Riverside Head Coach Mike Magpayo and his men’s basketball coaching staff. After receiving numerous scholarship offers for himself early in the recruiting process as a sophomore, and not seeing much playing time during his junior season at top-rated AZ Compass Prep, it has…
Sunnyslope High School’s very gifted and talented 6-foot, 185-pound senior point guard Oakland Fort has made his college decision, and it was a little bit of a surprise, as Fort, who was evaluated and recruited by numerous college programs, decided to stay close to home and give a big verbal commitment to Northern Arizona University Head Coach Shane Burcar and his men’s basketball staff. In the end, Northern Arizona won out – landing Burcar’s biggest commitment from the state of Arizona, since taking over the Lumberjack’s basketball program more than two years ago. Fort had recently narrowed down his list of…
It was a big week for commitments in the state of Arizona, but none was bigger for boys or girls commitments in the state than PHH Prep’s 6-foot-7 superstar senior post Kennedy Basham. One of the elite girl’s prospects in America’s 2022 Class of prospects, Basham ended her long awaited commitment this week – pledging to the University of Oregon women’s basketball program, led by Head Coach Kelly Graves. Basham took all of her official recruiting visits and made sure to make the right decision for herself. After going through each of her options, which also included Arizona, Arizona State,…
The PHH Prep basketball program has had a big week of offers and commitments for their players. One nice commitment for the program included sharp-shooting 6-foot-4 senior guard Dominic Capriotti, who has decided that he will sign this fall with Oakland University, after giving a verbal pledge this week to the program. This verbal pledge was a nice one for Capriotti who previously gave verbally committed to Northern Colorado almost exactly a year ago as a rising junior. While it was thought that Capriotti would go to Northern Colorado, he recently decided to re-open his college recruitment and now has…
The state of Arizona is absolutely loaded with Division-I talent these days, as more and more top-rated prospects venture to the state to play for elite prep schools that make up the best prep school circuit in the country. One prospect that has emerged early in the recruiting process is Dream City Christian Prep’s talented and skilled 6-foot-9, 215-pound sophomore forward Jovan Milicevic. A native of Serbia, Milicevic is a unique prospect with excellent size and a fundamentally sound skillset. This week, he received his first Division-I offer from a PAC-12 program. With no offers currently to his credit, and…
The wait is finally over for Sunnyslope High School’s 6-foot-8, 220-pound senior forward Elijah Saunders. After blowing up this summer while playing through the NCAA’s July Evaluation Period, Saunders went through a grueling recruiting process, as loads of Division-I schools poured in different offers for him. After narrowing down his long list of schools to (5) different programs, Saunders has made his decision before the Early Fall Signing Period – giving a verbal commitment to San Diego State University Head Coach Brian Dutcher and his men’s basketball staff. Saunders had a very long list of colleges to choose from, before electing…
The Dream City Christian Prep basketball program is absolutely loaded this prep school season, and will feature loads of Division-I talent that most basketball enthusiasts in the state have not yet seen, but will marvel at this prep season. One newcomer to the program that will be featured on The Grind Session this prep season is already off the recruiting board. 6-foot-10, 250-pound senior post Shawn Phillips recently decided to transfer to Dream City Christian for his final senior season, and this week, after narrowing down his list of schools, Phillips decided to give a verbal commitment to North Carolina…
Last season when PHH Prep 6-foot-7, 190-pound senior wing prospect JT Elder had verbally committed to Portland State University, I had mentioned that Portland State was getting a “steal.” After not having the opportunity to sign with Portland State last season, Elder was forced to re-open his college recruitment and take a post-graduate year. As a result, Elder has flourished this fall and, this week, earned a nice offer from DePaul University. It was thought that Elder was heading to Portland State last year, but after an off the court issue, Elder was forced to re-open his college recruitment and…