Desert Vista Head Coach Gino Crump and his hard-working basketball staff have had their sights set on winning the 6A State Championship since Crump took over the program in 2016. This season will be the Thunder’s best chance to win it all, as the program will feature one of the most talented lineups in the state, led by the superb overall play of gifted 6-foot-9 do-it-all senior post Osasare Ighodaro (Marquette University signee). Crump and the Desert Vista program have ranked among the elite programs in the state since Crump took over the program. Crump and his experienced staff have…
Author: Anthony Ray
Dream City Christian Prep is in their first year of operations, but the program has quickly become one of the hottest prep programs in America, after a tremendous start to the prep school season. With numerous big wins early in the season, Dream City advanced to the tournament finals this weekend in the Grind Session’s Duel in the Desert event held on their campus at Dream City Christian School in North Phoenix. The final championship match-up of the event was an epic one, as a loaded Prolific Prep (CA) team would just squeak past Dream City Christian on a last-second…
Shadow Mountain High School has been the absolute class of the state of Arizona for the past decade, winning just about every state championship under former Head Coach and legendary Arizona basketball product Mike Bibby. After winning the last four-straight 4A State Championships in Arizona (2016 State Title was Division-II Title), the Matadors’ basketball program has changed a lot as Bibby decided to resign from the program and focus on other basketball endeavors. As a result, Curtis Millage now takes over the Shadow Mountain program, and has the Matadors focused on winning another state title. Millage, who played for Arizona…
Arizona Western and Phoenix have the two ACCAC men’s basketball Players of the Week for Nov. 11-17. Arizona Western 6-foot-1 sophomore guard Daniel Kiely has been selected as the ACCAC’s Division-I Player of the Week. A sophomore from Kinshasa, Congo, Kiely scored 24 points on 10 for 16 shooting from the floor, in an 86-82 win over Little Priest Tribal College. He also added 12 rebounds, four steals and four assists. Phoenix College’s gifted 6-foot-3 sophomore guard Trey Mitchell (pictured) had a huge week for Phoenix in capturing the ACCAC’s Division-II Player of the Week honor. He averaged 32 points,…
Desert Vista High School is known for producing quality talent in all sports at the school, and one of the top prospects in the school has decided to shift gears for his college future. Our Arizona Preps’ staff has heard a lot of great things about Desert Vista’s 6-foot, 150-pound sophomore guard Ryan Santino over the past two years, but now the talented guard prospect will turn his focus and attention to baseball full time – a sport that he has already thrived in and received serious college attention for at a young age. The sharp-shooting guard prospect has a…
The season for the Arizona Community College Athletic Association (ACCAC) is now in full swing, and one of the elite overall performers early on this junior college season has been Phoenix College 6-foot-3, 170-pound sophomore guard Lamar “Tre” Mitchell. Mitchell has been on a tear this junior college season, early on, and is set to have a big sophomore season for himself and the Phoenix College program. Mitchell has quickly proven himself as one of the elite performers this season in the ACCAC, and has helped lead his Phoenix College program to a 4-2 start to the season, and (3)…
With the beginning of the Arizona Community College Athletic Association (ACCAC) junior college season now fully in action, Nathaniel Pollard of Eastern Arizona, and Xavier Fuller of Scottsdale JC, are the first two ACCACC Men’s Basketball Players of the Week in Division-I and D-II respectively. Pollard averaged 16.2 points and 10.2 rebounds per game, as EAC won its first (5) contests of the season. Xavier Fuller had a huge week with a 26.5 scoring average, as Scottsdale JC won their first (2) games of the year. Fuller also averaged an impressive 11 rebounds and had 4 assists and 2.5 steals…
One of the most consistent high-level performers this year, as we near the full-swing for the 2019-2020 basketball season, has been AZ Compass Prep 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior guard Sincere Parker. While the AZ Compass team has been one of the hottest prep teams in America early on this season, the consistent strong play of Sincere Parker has been a nice bright spot for the group. A native of Rockford, Illinois, Parker was a top-rated prospect while playing for East High School (IL), and so it was a major surprise when he decided to relocate to Arizona and join a loaded…
Recently, the state of Arizona and Desert Vista High School received a new transfer from the state of New Jersey, and another excellent addition to Arizona’s 2022 Class of prospects, as 6-foot-1 sophomore guard Dasean Lecque invaded the state of Arizona. Lecque has joined a very talented Desert Vista team and program, where he will now finish his (3) remainning years of high school basketball, and immediately becomes one of the state’s better prospects in the class. Lecque is the younger brother of current NBA guard Jalen Lecque (Phoenix Suns), who made the jump directly to the NBA from Brewster…
The Dream City Christian Prep program is definitely on the rise in the state of Arizona in a major way, especially after a tremendous road victory last weekend over then #2 nationally ranked Sierra Canyon High School (CA), 80-69, in an exhibition @ Sierra Canyon. Dream City Christian Prep is a program on the rise in a major way after the victory, and continues to add serious talent to their prep program in preparation for a big season on the Grind Session basketball circuit. In the big win, Dream City Christian was led by the play of 6-foot-4 senior guard…