Possibly the state’s best sleeper prospect currently is Hillcrest Prep’s 6-foot-6, 180-pound senior guard/forward Devan Cambridge. After going through his entire senior season somehow without any true offers, the gifted wing prospect has just received a tremendous offer from a top-rated program in the Big-12 Conference. This past season, Devan Cambridge was a very consistent top performer on a loaded Hillcrest Prep roster. In numerous games this season and against top-rated national competition, Cambridge played at a high level and proved just how good he was as a future college prospect. While college programs have not made their commitment to…
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In very surprising fashion on Monday afternoon, it was announced that one of the state’s elite young talented prospects, 6-foot-4 rising sophomore guard De’Vontes Cobbs has enrolled at rising local prep power AZ Compass Prep in Chandler, Arizona. Cobbs was an impressive starter last season for 4A defending State Champion Shadow Mountain High School, and helped lead the program to another state championship and a nice 26-3 overall record on the season. Cobbs has enrolled at AZ Compass Prep for his sophomore season, and will join a nice cast of other top-rated prospects that look to be moving to the…
Local prep power Hillcrest Prep has been on an absolute tear this off-season in reeling in top-rated elite national talent for their basketball program. Organizers Nick Weaver, Matt Allen and Head Coach Howard Thomas have significantly raised their level of talent at the dominant prep program over the last month, and are now introducing stud 6-foot-3, 160-pound rising sophomore guard Dior Johnson to the program. Dior Johnson is flat out big time as a guard prospect – currently rated among the top overall players in America’s 2022 Class and has many division-I offers already to go with it. A native…
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…
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…