One of the elite prospects in Arizona’s 2021 Class of prospects is now off the recruiting board, as Dream City Christian Prep’s 6-foot-11, 210-pound senior forward Alex Tchikou decided to pull the trigger this weekend – announcing his decision to choose the University of Alabama in a verbal announcement that he made. Tchikou gave Alabama Head Coach Nate Oats and his basketball staff a big commitment, after being one of the most sought after recruiting targets in the country. The verbal commitment came in very surprising fashion, as Tchikou held a long list of division-I offers for himself from such schools…
Author: Anthony Ray
The Pangos Best of Arizona Summer League has now officially come to an end, after more than a month of exciting action. The league, organized by West Coast top-rated scout Dinos Trigonis and national scout Chad Groth, was an excellent opportunity for Arizona’s top basketball prospects to gain national exposure to college coaches, scouts and media, during a time when basketball is not being played around the country – due to the growing COVID-19 pandemic. While some basketball enthusiasts were not in support of the league, Trigonis and Groth did an excellent job in creating an opportunity for Arizona basketball…
Desert Vista High School is coming off winning this year’s 6A State Championship, with their best performance of the season coming in the state’s 6A Final – a 75-55 championship win over Mountain Pointe High School. In the championship victory, 6-foot, 165-pound rising junior guard Dasean Lecque went off, as he did all season long for his team. Since the end to the season, the New Jersey-native has not slowed down a bit, as he has torched his competition in the Pangos Best of Arizona League – earning numerous scholarship offers to his credit, as a result. While Lecque did…
As we continue to take a much harder and closer look into Arizona’s talented 2021 Class of prospects, there are numerous performers that would have made a big splash this spring and summer, pre-COVID-19 pandemic. While the Spring NCAA Evaluation Period was cancelled, one of the elite prospects in the class that has not missed a beat has been AZ Compass Prep’s 6-foot-4, 180-pound rising senior guard prospect Tyrone “Ty Ty” Washington. Even without an evaluation period to support his performances, Washington has absolutely blown up among college coaches, scouts and media. With the COVID-19 pandemic increasing around the country…
THE SHOW Future Elite Summer League, organized by former Arizona Preps’ staff writer Justin Vargas, is an excellent opportunity for the state’s top underclassmen prospects to showcase their talents to college coaches, scouts and media in attendance, and also compete against the best young talent the state has to offer. Held at Skyline Prep High School over (2) weekends, the league started on Saturday (June 6) and also continued on Sunday (June 7). This weekend (June 13), more pool play will take place on Saturday, and then the league will conclude with single-elimination tournament play on Sunday, June 14th. Our…
After observing last weekend’s The SHOW Future Elite Summer League, an excellent showcase of the state of Arizona’s top underclassmen prospects in the state, it was obvious that Peoria High School’s gifted 6-foot-1 rising sophomore guard Andrew Camacho was a force to be reckoned with among his fellow young prospects. With many of the state’s elite young prospects in participation for the league, Camacho proved in the first weekend of action just how good he is and will become. Camacho is a well known top-rated young prospect in basketball circles in the state of Arizona, as he has torched his…
As we continue to take a much harder and closer look into Arizona’s talented 2021 Class of prospects, there are numerous performers that would have made a big splash this spring and summer, pre-COVID-19 pandemic. One of the elite prospects in the class that was definitely set to take off this spring and summer is 6-foot-8, 190-pound junior wing prospect Maxwell Lewis. Lewis has already received loads of college recruitment early, and he was ready to explode this spring on the shoe circuit. Lewis generated a lot of attention last spring and summer, so his final club season was definitely set…
In very shocking news this week, Millennium High School’s gifted 6-foot-9, 200-pound junior post DaRon Holmes, our 2020 Arizona Preps Player of the Year, gave an announcement that would take the state’s basketball community by complete surprise, as he announced that he would be leaving the state of Arizona for his senior season, and playing for national power Montverde Academy (FL). The announcement by Holmes came this week on Twitter, when he thanked everyone he felt he needed to, and then made his announcement: “First, I want to thank Coach Ty (Amundsen), the @MillenniumHoops coaching staff and my teammates for three…
The Pangos Best of Arizona League tips off this week @ Skyline Prep High School, with games being held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 2nd through June 23rd. Co-Directors Chad Groth and Dinos Trigonis will be organizing this exciting league, in an attempt to allow for Arizona’s top individual prospects to gain maximum exposure throughout the month of June, while high school team competition is still in question. The Pangos Best of Arizona League is limited to 80 high school individual players, which are placed on (8) different teams. The league is for all-aged high school prospects, and will be…
The Fullcourt Press Diamond in Rough JC & Senior Showcase will take place on Sunday, May 31st @ Dream City Christian School (Glendale AZ – located @ 21000 North 75th Avenue, Glendale, AZ 85308). This exciting event is much needed and will kick off basketball action again in the state. Amidst the imminent COVID-19 pandemic, there has been no true basketball competition for months, and so the Fullcourt Press event, organized by top-rated West Coast basketball scout and event organizer Dinos Trigonis, is just what the doctor ordered for many of the state’s top unsigned senior prospects. Trigonis is one…