After leaving Chandler High School during his senior year to play for AZ Compass Prep, 6-foot-8 senior wing Isaiah Brody had a senior season that worked out much different than he expected. After being pegged to have a monster senior season for Chandler, where he would rank among the elite overall prospects in Arizona’s 2021 Class, instead, Brody spent his senior season as a role player for one of the elite high school programs in the country. While it was definitely challenging for Brody, it has all worked out in the end, as Brody recently made his college decision to…
Author: Anthony Ray
Girl’s basketball in the state of Arizona is definitely well on the rise, as prep girl’s basketball programs are growing and making a tremendous impact on the girl’s basketball culture. With the emergence of girl’s top-rated basketball programs competing on the nationally acclaimed Grind Session last season, now we can add Dream City Christian Prep’s girl’s basketball to the national mix. Dream City has hired local successful basketball product and well respected coach Prileu Davis to lead their girl’s National basketball program, which will now also compete next season on the Grind Session. Dream City is not playing around also,…
Former Adidas Grassroots Director of Basketball of Operations Chris Rivers, once one of the most powerful individuals in the game, gave an amazing speech to the campers at the Big Baller Brand Middle School Regional Camp. Rivers, a staple in the development of grassroots basketball across the country over the past (20) years, and one of the original developers of the Oakland Soldiers (Nike-EYBL) club basketball program in Northern California, spoke to the campers about real-life application that they could utilize in life, and coached the players to “tune out the noise” created by the basketball culture today, and work…
Arizona Preps caught up with another one of the elite 2025 prospects in the state, and potentially the West – 6-foot-4 skilled and versatile prospect Jack Egginton. A native of Australia, Egginton will be playing for state champion Catalina Foothills High School next fall. Egginton was an absolute top performer this past weekend, and will check in nicely in our up-and-coming 2026 Player Rankings. An excellent prospect for the future. Arizona Preps Interview with Top-Rated 2025 Prospect Jack Egginton
Arizona Preps’ reporter Addisen Stinnett caught up with two of the elite 2026 prospects (7th graders) in the West – Brayden Barrett and Mason Magee. She talked with both prospects about their work ethic and plans for high school. These two young men are very hard working and have very promising futures. Two of the best prospects I have ever seen this young. Check out this interview. Arizona Preps Interview with Top-Rated 2026 Prospects Mason Magee and Brayden Barrett
Arizona Preps’ reporter Addisen Stinnett caught up with one of the elite prospects from this weekend’s Big Baller Brand Middle School Regional Camp – top-rated 2025 prospect Cameron Holmes, the younger brother of rising star and University of Dayton signee DaRon Holmes. Holmes is a tremendous talent for the 2025 Class, and looks to be another very special prospect, like his older brother. Holmes will be attending Millennium High School in the fall. This is an excellent interview and fun! Arizona Preps Interview with Future Millennium High School star Cameron Holmes
Arizona Preps caught up with two of the top overall performers from this weekend’s Big Baller Brand Middle School Regional Camp – Bryce Quinet (pictured) and Brennan Peterson, two of the elite 2025 prospects in the West. We learned that these two young men will be playing together in high school for the next four years. They will both make an immediate impact at the varsity high school level. Arizona Preps Interview w/Bryce Quinet and Brennan Peterson
Dream City Christian Prep’s gifted 6-foot-11, 210-pound junior post Birima Seck (University of New Mexico commit) ranked among the elite overall prospects in Arizona’s 2022 Class. While the class is absolutely loaded with talented prospects for college programs, Seck has decided to skip his senior season and become a member of the nation’s 2021 Class. Seck made his decision this week after he gave a big verbal commitment to the University of New Mexico and new Head Coach Richard Pitino and his basketball staff. Seck ranked among our elite overall prospects in Arizona’s 2022 Class, before deciding to make the…
When we previously released the Arizona Preps 2023 Class Spring Individual Player Rankings, we knew there would be numerous prospects that make strong cases for themselves to be ranked higher in our next player rankings after the summer had eneded (2021). One of these prospects clearly is Tucson Pueblo High School’s 5-foot-10, 150-pound gifted and athletic sophomore point guard Armari Carraway. One of the elite prospects in Arizona’s talented 2023 Class of prospects, Carraway recently moved to the state of Arizona from Fresno, California, and immediately exploded during his sophomore season – posting tremendous individual numbers on the season. After…
Tucson Pueblo High School’s gifted and athletic 5-foot-10 sophomore point guard Armari Carraway is one of the elite prospects in Arizona’s talented 2023 Class of prospects. Carraway recently moved to the state of Arizona from Fresno, California, and immediately exploded during his sophomore season – posting tremendous individual numbers on the season. After a very strong performance in this month’s Arizona Preps / Area Codes Showcase event, Carraway is one prospect on the rise in our next Arizona Preps Player Rankings for the 2023 Class. Arizona Preps caught up with Carraway at this year’s recent event, and was very impressed…