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…
Author: Anthony Ray
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…
After a nice recruiting process for himself where he saw many schools pursue him hard and jump on the bandwagon throughout his final spring and summer, Desert Vista High School’s 6-foot-9, 185-pound senior Osasere Ighodaro made his college decision this week, after narrowing his final list of schools down to (3) programs. In surprising fashion and with his finals schools down to Marquette, Stanford and Vanderbilt, Osa would elect to announce a big verbal pledge to Marquette University and Head Coach Steve Wojciechowski and his men’s basketball staff. The commitment is a big one for the Marqette program, landing the…
The time has arrived after 20 years of events and 20 years of operations for the Arizona Preps website (www.arizonapreps.com), the amazing 21st Annual Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, Arizona’s original showcase basketball event, will be kicking off a new era for our website and this annual event going forward, as we 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…
Tournament organizer Chad Groth held his annual Area Codes Freshman/Sophomore Camp last weekend, his 7th version of the annual event. Hillcrest Prep highly promising 6-foot-9 sophomore guard/forward Sadraque Nganga is now the Camp MVP in (2) of the annual events, after an epic perfomance this weekend proved just how good this young man has become and could continue to become. Recently, Nganga changed schools in very surprising fashion, as the gifted young prospect abruptly changed college programs locally without much notice – leaving AZ Compass Prep and landing at Hillcrest Prep. AZ Compass Prep has it’s deepest team of talent…
On Sunday, the 7th Annual Area Codes Frosh/Soph Camp took place at the PHHacility. Organized by Tournament organizer Chad Groth, this year’s event may have been the best one of it’s kind, as there were numerous top performers in the event that showed excellent potential for the future. Led by two-time Camp Most Valuable Player Sadraque Nganga, who would win the award for the second year in a row, the event was absolutely loaded with top-rated talent. The event was very well organized by Groth, as the games were on time and shortened in a manner that allowed for those…
The South Mountain High School basketball program has been historic in the state of Arizona for producing some of the state’s best basketball talent and teams over a very long period of time. Since the 1970’s, this South Phoenix-based basketball program has absolutely dominated the state of Arizona basketball opposition. After posting numerous state titles and developing hundreds of college basketball prospects over the years, the basketball program has worked hard to return the program to the level of consistecy that the school produced in the past. This season will be a culmination of years of hard work by the…
One of the top overall prospects in Arizona’s 2020 Class worked extremely hard over the past couple years to make himself an attractive prospect in the class to college basketball programs. A star football prospect that received loads of Division-I attention from top college football programs around the country, PHH Prep 6-foot-8, 250-pound senior forward DeAndre Henry elected to focus on basketball two years ago – surprising many in the football and basketball community. On Tuesday, after the long Labor Day weekend, Henry made a verbal commitment for college that proved that he knew exactly what he was doing. After…
AZ Compass Prep 6-foot-4 sharp-shooting senior guard Xavier DuSell has made his college decision, after announcing his decision for college on Sunday. Dusell is coming off a strong performance throughout the spring and summer, where he turned in numerous strong performances with his Team Harden club program. After recently making his decision to return to Compass Prep for his senior season amidst loads of division-I talent on the roster, after mulling over his options for college, DuSell has decided to give a verbal commitment to the University of Northern Colorado and Head Coach Jeff Linder and his staff. DuSell made…