No player has worked harder to earn a quality scholarship offer more than Central Arizona Junior College 6-foot-8, 210-pound freshman juco forward Meekness Payne. After changing high schools, playing a year in the prep school ranks, and then spending a year in the Arizona junior college conference (ACCAC), Payne has finally received a division-I offer for himself – a testiment to hard work and an excellent story. Payne had a strong freshman season for himself while playing for Central Arizona Junior College and Head Coach Tramaine Aaron. In his freshman season, Payne averaged strong numbers – putting up 12.2 points…
Author: Anthony Ray
The state’s hottest prospect this spring has certainly been Desert Vista High School’s promising 6-foot-9, 185-pound junior post Osasere Ighodaro. Since the end to the high school basketball season, the gifted and rapidly developing stretch four-man prospect has aboslutely blown up with division-I college coaches. Recently, while already possessing double-digit division-I offers for himself, “Osa” received another big offer for himself, as a rising program in the SEC Conference made their commitment to the surging and lengthy prospect. While recently receiving a huge offer from Stanford University, his biggest offer at that point, now many high major division-I programs are…
Pinnacle High School’s sharp-shooting 6-foot-2 senior guard Trent Brown is coming off an excellent senior season, where he was able to help lead his program to a second-consecutive 6A State Championship. In the process, Brown was terrific in pouring in strong numbers and some big shooting nights – his best season of his high school career. Last week it paid off for Brown, as he decided to accept a scholarship offer from a nice college program in the Missouri Valley Conference. After recently taking an official recruiting visit to Southern Illinois University, Brown found his fit and signed a national…
Arizona Preps basketball scout and writer Tye Jacobs was able to catch some of the action from this weekend’s Easter Classic, organized by Chad Groth and Area Codes Basketball. Here are his top perfomers from the weekend. Some top teams traveled from all around the southwest to compete in some very high-level action. Here are some of the kids who stood out . . . Malachi Felix, 6 ft 3, 2020, Copper Canyon High School Malachi is a long wing who has the ability to slash and score from the perimeter. His quick first step allows him to get to the rim…
The state’s level of basketball talent continues to grow as players outside of the state consistently are taking notice of the opportunities available to them at local prep schools in the state. With many more top-rated prospects preparing to announce moves to the state over the next few months, former Clark High School (NV) 6-foot-2, 175-pound sophomore guard Frankie Collins, one of the top 2021 prospects in the West,has announced that he will be attending AZ Compass Prep in Chandler, Arizona next fall. Collins is a highly regarded young prospect that has already received loads of division-I interest and offers…
With many college programs scouring the country this spring for top-rated prospects to help fill their rosters for immedaite help next fall, one of the top juco prospects in the West is now back on the recruiting board, after deciding to open up his college recruitment. Arizona Western Junior College 6-foot-9, 210-pound athletic sophomore forward Andre Allen made an early decision to sign with the University of Buffalo. After the departure of former Head Coach Nate Oats for the University of Alabama, Allen decided to review new options for his future. Allen was one of the top sophomore JUCO prospects in…
After a strong junior season at Hillcrest Prep where he teamed up with backcourt teammate Kyree Walker to create one of the elite backcourts in America, possibly the nation’s best one-two combination, Hillcrest Prep 6-foot-5, 175-pound junior point guard Dalen Terry saw his recruitment soar this high school season. After a strong performance thus far this spring and also last weekend in Irvine, California, Terry has now added some more big offers to his already long list of college programs. This week, Terry received an offer from the University of Florida, while last week he received an offer from the…
AZ Compass Prep 6-foot-5 senior guard Carlos Ramsey is one of the top unsigned prospects in Arizona’s 2019 senior class. Coming off a strong senior season for himself at AZ Compass, Ramsey is looking to generate much more college recruiting interest for himself this spring. While waiting to see where he will land collegiately and to raise his college recruitment, Ramsey decided, like many other top-rated Arizona unsigned senior prospects, to play through the spring before making his college decision. Ramsey got off to an excellent start this spring, as he led played at a very high level this weekend…
Pinnacle High School’s tough and sharp-shooting 6-foot-2 unsigned senior guard prospect Trent Brown is coming off an excellent senior season, where he was able to help lead his program to a second-consecutive 6A State Championship. Still undecided on a college program, Brown has scheduled an official recruiting visit to a college program in the Missouri Valley Conference for next weekend. Currently, Brown has offers on the table for himself from University of Illinois-Chicago, Eastern Michigan, Northern Colorado, Northern Arizona and Houston Baptist. Brown has decided to play through the spring before making his college decision, and next weekend (April 18…
It is beginning to get late in the spring signing period for many of Arizona’s top unsigned prospects. After another strong performance in his senior season for Apollo High School, and leading the program to a semi-final finish in the state’s 5A Division, Apollo High School’s talented 6-foot-7, 180-pound senior wing Emmanuel Taban has found a program for his future. After taking an unofficial visit to Cal-State Fullerton this weekend, while his club program competed in California, Taban decided to pull the trigger with the school and give a verbal commitment to the program. It was getting late for Taban…