Chaparral High School is coming off a terrific season last year where Head Coach Dan Peterson and his program reached the 6A State Championship game, before falling at the hands of two-time 6A State Champion Pinnacle HS. The runner-up finish has the Chaparral program wanting to get back there, but the program lost key players to transfers this off-season. The emergence of 6-foot-11 sophomore post Adrame Diongue will change everything though this season for the Firebirds. There isn’t another prospect in the state that is similar or even has the attributes of Diongue. A mere sophomore, this young man is…
Author: Anthony Ray
The AZ Compass Prep program retooled in a major way over the off-season and will return with one of the country’s most talented prep lineups in the country this season. While the team is absolutely loaded this season, one of the program’s most gifted and talented prospects will be 6-foot-5 junior guard Josh Primo. A recent native of Huntington, West Virginia, and originally a native of Canada, Primo transfered from Huntington Prep, and now invades the state of Arizona and becomes one of the elite prospects in the West for the 2021 Class. While the Compass program was very excited…
Scottsdale Community College had their best season to date last season under hard-working and tireless Head Coach Mark Bunker. Bunker led the program to a runner-up D-II finish in the conference and a 20-12 overall record on the season. A big reason for the team’s success last season was the play of terrific 6-foot-2, 190-pound sophomore point guard Donald Carter. Carter had a very strong freshman campaign, and will be back this season to build on his accomplishments. Carter returns this season in the ACCAC as the clear overall leader for his Scottsdale team, but also as one of the…
The 21st Annual Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, Arizona’s original showcase basketball event, will be held in October and will be featuring a new format, as our staff will introduce the Arizona Preps Fall Showcase Top 20 Invitational. The NEW format of the annual event will invite (20) of the state’s top high school varsity teams to participate in two games on Saturday, October 26th, 2019. The event again will be making it’s return to the very nice venue – Inspire Courts, located at 1090 North Fiesta Blvd, Gilbert, Arizona 85233. As part of the event, for the coaching staffs of the invited teams, the event…
The loaded and exciting Pangos All-West Frosh/Soph Camp took place this weekend on the campus of Lynwood High School in Los Angeles, California. While the event was absolutely loaded with young, talented prospects from the West, surprisingly there were not many Arizona prospects in attendance for this weekend’s terrific exposure event. This event annually has catapulted the recognition and exposure of the top young prospects in the West, and this weekend, two of Arizona’s top young prospects were rewarded from their play in the event. St. Mary’s High School’s athletic and gifted 6-foot-5 junior wing Garrison Phelps, and Basha High…
PPHoenix Prep 6-foot-10, 190-pound junior forward Matur Dhal is a talented prospect that is now on the rise, after a strong perofrmance this past weekend at the West Coast Elite All-Star Camp held this past weekend @ The PHHacility. In the event, Dhal performed at a high level and was selected among the top overall performers from the camp. A native of South Sudan, Dhal came to the United States just two years ago and played last season at Paradise Honors High School, where he was a very good contributor on a very talented team that finished 22-6. This season,…
One of the top overall prospects in the state of Arizona continues to prove just how dominant a guard prospect that he is, as Cesar Chavez High School’s talented and skilled 6-foot-4, 180-pound junior guard Ty Ty Washington is coming off a terrific performance Saturday evening in the Grind Show In The Desert exposure event this weekend at Phoenix College. Washington has been regarded as one of the elite guard prospects in the state for some time, and now, as he prepares to enter his senior season, many college programs are now lining up to land the gifted combo-guard prospect…
One of the state’s elite overall talents, regardless of class, and the top overall prospect in the state’s AIA ranks is Millennium High School’s gifted and dominant 6-foot-9, 205-pound junior forward/post DaRon Holmes. After a high school season where he led a young Millennium team to a 6A State Championship runner-up finish, Holmes completely took his game to another level this off-season and returns as a junior to complete some unfinished business – winning it all. Holmes is changing the game in Arizona, as last season he and his young Millennium teammates surprised many Arizona basketball enthusiasts by finishing with…
This weekend, the 1st Annual Grind Session took place on the campus of Phoenix College. It was an epic evening on the campus of Phoenix College on Saturday evening as tournament organizers Justin Vargas and Gregg Rosenberg released their first Grind Show In The Desert event, which featured some of the top overall prospects in the state from the 2021 and 2022 classes in action. The game was highlighted on the evening though by a match-up between some of the state’s premier 2021 prospects, as they would face a loaded AZ Compass Prep team in what would be a very…
It was an epic evening on the campus of Phoenix College on Saturday evening as tournament organizers Justin Vargas and Gregg Rosenberg released their first Grind Show In The Desert event, which featured some of the top overall prospects in the state from the 2021 and 2022 classes in action. The game was highlighted on the evening though by a match-up between some of the state’s premier 2021 prospects, as they would face a loaded AZ Compass Prep team in what would be a very exciting and impressive contest. The atmosphere on the evening was tremendous as the building was…