There is never been a more important time in high school basketball across the country to have help with marketing today’s student-athletes to college programs across the country. As a result of the recent NCAA changes to the national event calendar, evaluation period and certification of basketball events, it is now more difficult for aspiring college basketball prospects to gain attention from college coaches. Especially in the state of Arizona, where college recruiting has always been difficult. While the state has definitely improved with the emergence of more out-of-state, and even international prospects to the valley, it is increasingly difficult…
Author: Anthony Ray
Hillcrest Prep has done it again, reeling in one of the nation’s elite prospects to the state to attend their program. This weekend, the program received a tremendous addition ot their basketball program when one of the nation’s Top 3 prospects in the 2021 Class chose to attend Hillcrest Prep, 6-foot-8, 210-pound sophomore forward Michael Foster. In a nice history now of landing some of the nation’s elite prospects, the program looks to be putting together one of the nation’s very best prep program rosters for the fall. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Foster is a tremendous talent and is a…
In a major game in the West that featured the two of the top two teams/programs in the West, Hillcrest Prep top-rated 2020 prospects, 6-foot-5 rising senior guard Kyree Walker (Dream Vision) and 6-foot-5 rising senior guard Dalen Terry (Compton Magic) would lead their respective teams against one another. Here is a highlight video of two of the state’s top prospects leading their respective teams against one another, as the Compton Magic (CA) and Dream Vision (NV) recently faced off over Memorial Day weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahx8thHIvH8 Join the Forum discussion on this post
One of the elite prospects in America’s 2020 Class of players resides right here in the state of Arizona at Hillcrest Prep Academy. This spring, 6-foot-5, 205-pound rising senior guard Kyree Walker has completed dominated his competition on the club circuit – proving just how elite and valuable a prospect he is. After an early commitment to the Arizona State Sun Devils as a freshman, Walker decided to re-open his college recruitment almost a year ago. Now wide open in his college recruitment, Walker has been on a tear. Walker has traveled this spring with his club program, the heavily Adidas sponsored Dream Vision club program.…
Superb freshman prospect, 6-foot-9 wing Sadraque Nganga, played a vital role on this year’s AZ Compass Prep National Team, as he has immediately stepped in and proved that he is as good a prospect as there is in America’s 2022 Class of prospects. Nganaga is a very lengthy, rangy and skilled prospect with a very good feel for the game and an ability to make plays for himself and others. He is a big-time future prospect that has budding young prospect written all over him. He has a striking resemblance as a player early to that of current NBA top…
One of the elite prospects in Arizona and America’s 2020 Class of prospects is Bella Vista Prep’s 6-foot-7, 195-pound rising senior wing Addison Patterson. Fresh off helping lead his program to a national title on the Grind Session this past season, Patterson is now tearing it up on the Nike EYBL Circuit while playing for the heavily-Nike sponsored Team Why Not. A native of Canada, Patterson moved to the state of Arizona last summer to attend Bella Vista, and it was a major get for the Scottsdale-based program. Patterson is a superb talent that is well beyond his years in…
Grind Session National Champion Bella Vista Prep is absolutely loaded with top-rated talent, and has been for the past two seasons, since the program’s origination in 2017 as a prep program. But after having numerous different guard prospects play the point guard role over the past two seasons, the program entered the second half of their prep season still looking for a point guard to emerge to lead the program and raise the overall level of play of the Bella Vista team. After the Hoop Hall event, and realizing that they would need to add another guard to their roster to…
One of the top young prospects in Arizona’s 2021 Class is Sunrise Mountain High School’s 6-foot-6, 200-pound sophomore wing Colin Carey. After a good sophomore season, Carey turned it up big time in this spring’s Arizona Club Basketball League (ACBL), where he led the league in scoring and became one of the state’s next top young prospects. Carey is regarded as an elite level prospect now after a big spring performance, where he positioned himself among the state’s best overall talents with a scoring prowess that makes him very intriguing as a college prospect. Carey is coming off a 25+…
The state of Arizona’s top overall prospect in the 2021 Class is of the elite prospects in the West, Millennium High School’s promising 6-foot-9, 195-pound sophomore forward DaRon Holmes. Holmes is a big-time future prospect in the state, and numerous college programs have already positioned themselves with the talented budding young prospect. With many high-major Division-I programs already in the hunt for Holmes, the University of Arizona has now extended an offer to the talented rising junior prospect. On Monday, Holmes received an offer from Sean Miller and his coaching staff, after a strong performance over the weekend at IMG Academy…
Taylor Made Prep’s 6-foot-8 prep forward Ajang Aguek really helped himself over the past year. After graduating from Ironwood High School in 2018, Aguek performed very well throughout the spring and summer. After a post-graduate season @ Taylor Made Prep, and another strong performance this spring, Aguek recently received an offer and decided to commit to a local Big Sky program. In a very nice pick-up for Head Coach Jack Murphy and his staff, Northern Arizona received a commitment from Aguek this weekend, after Aguek decided to stay home and play for the Lumberjacks. Aguek will be one of the…