Hillcrest Prep has done it again – landing one of the nation’s top overall prospects to their program. Hillcrest Prep has announced the addition of 6-foot-8 freshman wing Omaha Biliew, a native of West Des Moines, Iowa. Biliew is currently rated as the nation’s top overall prospect in the 2023 Class, and will now team up with a loaded group at Hillcrest that includes 6-foot-8 junior forward Michael Foster and 6-foot-7 junior Keon Edwards (DePaul commit). Biliew is a tremendous physical talent for a 2023 prospect, as he possesses excellent size, length and athleticism combined with a serious skill level…
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The 2020 McClintock Holiday Shootout will be held in late December, and again will be filled with a loaded field of high school teams from the state of Arizona. This exciting event will feature many of the state’s top teams. Here is the field of teams expected for the 2020 annual event . . . 2020 McClintock Holiday Shootout – Field of Teams Apollo, Arcadia, Basha, Brophy Prep, Casteel, Desert Mountain, Desert Ridge, Gilbert Highland, Ironwood, McClintock, Mountain Pointe, Paradise Valley, Saguaro and Tempe. The Arizona Preps’ staff will look to completely cover this year’s exciting event, once again. Last…
The 2020 Visit Mesa Basketball Challenge will take place December 19 – 23rd, 2020, again @ Mesa Mountain View High School, and will be loaded once again with numerous top teams from Arizona and around the West. This week, the tournament announced this year’s field of teams for this exciting event. Here is the list of teams that will be participating in this year’s event, at the end of the year – just before Christmas . . . 2020 Visit Mesa Basketball Challenge – List of Teams Mountain View (AZ), Red Mountain (AZ), Sunnyslope (AZ), Perry (AZ), Salpointe Catholic (AZ),…
The game of basketball is consistently changing at all levels, as players are training more and harder than ever before, and looking for ways to gain an advantage on the competition. For the elite prospects across the country, the margins are very small, but the desire to play in the NBA continues to grow and the elite prospects are looking to get there sooner and stay there. As a result, options are developing quickly around the world to give the best basketball talent more options for their futures. If you had not heard of the name Chameleon BX, you may…
The long wait is finally over for former stud 2020 Class guard prospect Kyree Walker. After staying very quiet about his plans for the future for some time, this past weekend, the 6-foot-5, 205-pound senior guard Kyree Walker announced that he would skip going to normal college route for his future, and, instead, train for a year with the well-known Chameleon BX Training in California, in an attempt to prepare for the 2021 NBA Draft. Chameleon BX is the ultimate training platform for elite high school basketball players to get prepared for the NBA. Founded by Frank Matrisciano, players work out hard…
In very surprising fashion this week, one of the elite prospects in Arizona’s 2021 Class decided to pull the trigger early and give a nice verbal commitment to a college program. Sunnyslope High School’s 6-foot-10, 220-pound junior post Carson Basham, while having a laundry list of offers for himself, decided to end his college recruitment and give a verbal pledge to Pepperdine University and Head Coach Lorenzo Romar and his strong basketball staff. While the previous plan might have been to play through the spring and summer months before making his college decision, the COVID-19 pandemic may have seriously changed the…
With the basketball world being put on a halt with the global epidemic known as the Corona Virus (COVID-19), us hoop junkies have seem to run out of luck as NBA, Collegiate and AAU/club basketball play have all been cancelled or suspended. Hopefully all of this passes and kids will have the opportunity to showcase their skills in front of college coaches sooner rather than later. In the meantime, here are some of the state’s elite small forward prospects to watch for once play resumes – in all classes (In no particular order). In this Third Edition of “We Miss…
In the current state of basketball across the country, as a result of the Corona Virus (COVID-19), basketball action across the country and in Arizona has ceased, but college recruitment has been at an all-time high, as college programs across the country have had to focus much of their time on the recruiting of college prospects. There have been many members of Arizona’s high school ranks that have benefited lately in their recruitment, and have given commitments. Here are some of the Arizona high school prospects from the 2020 Class that have benefited the most in their college recruitment this…
In the current state of basketball across the country, as a result of the Corona Virus (COVID-19), basketball action across the country and in Arizona has ceased, but college recruitment has been at an all-time high, as college programs across the country have had to focus much of their time on the recruiting of college prospects. There have been many members of Arizona’s junior college ranks that have benefited lately in their recruitment. Here are some of the Arizona juco prospects that benefited the most in their college recruitment this spring . . . Naje Smith 6-8 SOPH SF/PF Cochise…
With the recent end to the 2019-2020 ACCAC Junior College basketball season coming to a finish recently, and amid the tragic Corona Virus epidemic (COVID-19), our staff has decided to release our selections for the 2020 Arizona Preps JUCO Player of the Year. After another exciting junior college basketball season, we have decided on the selection of our Player of the Year – Scottsdale Junior College 6-foot-5 sophomore wing Xavier Fuller. While there were many top individual performers this past season in the ACCAC, no one player had more of an impact on his team’s success last season than Scottsdale’s Xavier Fuller.…