Cesar Chavez High School has been one of the state’s most consistent and winningest basketball programs in Arizona over a 20-year span, as the program has consistently posted winning season after winning season under Head Coach Gary Lee’s leadership. Lee has been coaching the program for more than 20+ years, and while the program has had tremendous success over the years, this high school season will be a big one for the Champions as they look to win the 6A State Championship. Under Lee’s leadership, Chavez has been the state champion runner-up in 2009 and 2012, and also has reached…
Author: Anthony Ray
There have been numerous prospects move to the state of Arizona since the end to the high school season last year. While many of these top-rated prospects have been at local prep programs, St. Mary’s High School recently received a nice addition of their own when 6-foot-9, 250-pound sophomore post Bear Cherry landed at the Knight’s program. Bear Cherry is the younger brother of current Arizona State sophomore forward Taeshon Cherry, and so the younger Cherry and his family moved to Arizona to be closer to Taeshon, via San Diego, California. The move will be a very good one for…
With the start to the new junior college season upon us, there will be many new faces in the conference this season to observe, as players look to lead their respective junior college programs to the top of the ACCAC this season. Arizona Western Junior College had a strong season last year, finishing with a 25-9 overall record on the season and winning the ACCAC Conference Championship. After several of the program’s top prospects from last season have been lost to graduation and signed nice division-I scholarships for themselves, this year’s team will now be led by the leadership of…
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…
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…