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+…
Author: Anthony Ray
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…
In case you missed it, Perry High School’s hard-working 6-foot-9 senior post Miles Houston recently decided on a college program for himself, and will be attending college at Cal Lutheran University next fall. Houston provided excellent depth in the frontcourt for Perry and Head Coach Sam Duane Jr. this past high school season. Houston is an absolute steal for Cal Lutheran, an NCAA member Division-III program located in Thousand Oaks, California. Head Coach Tim Fusina and his basketball staff will be getting a low-post talent that is capable of scoring inside and out, and has very good potential for the…
One of my favorite overall young prospects in the state is Sunnyslope High School’s talented and promising 6-foot-7 sophomore wing prospect Grady Lewis. I have been impressed with Lewis’ development as a player for some time now, and this young is quickly growing into becoming a formidable talent in the state. I caught up with Lewis recently at a practice for his club program, the Arizona Firestorm coached by Mike Smith, who does an excellent job and has done an excellent job with this team. The team is loaded with talent from the state’s 2021 Class, and Lewis is the…
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…
Another one of the state’s elite prospects still available this spring has found his college fit, as 6-foot-3 previously unsigned senior prospect Jackson Ruai decided that he would give his college decision in favor of a rising NCAA Division-II member program. Ruai had many different options for himself over the past year, as he was one of the higher recruited prospects in Arizona’s 2019 Class. With numerous division-I offers on the table for himself last spring and summer, Ruai, who is an excellent student, failed to receive a passing test score on the college entrance examination. As a result, Ruai…
The biggest and best prospect still available earlier this week was Bella Vista Prep’s 7-foot-1, 215-pound senior post Rick Issanza. Issanza developed as a player a great deal over the past two years at the Bella Vista program. With many high-major division-I programs still looking to land the impressive post talent, this week Issanza gave a big verbal commitment and signing with a top-rated program in the Big-12 Conference. This week Issanza decided that he will sign a national letter of intent with the University of Oklahoma and highly successful Head Coach Lon Kruger and his men’s basketball staff, giving…
It was an amazing end the to the high school basketball season, and it was an amzing week as well for Bella Vista Prep’s 6-foot-4 senior guard Jeron Artest. Previously considered a member of Arizona’s 2020 Class, Artest recently decided to reclassify to the 2019 Class and this week he decided to sign a national letter of intent with a member of the Big-West Conference. This week, Artest decided to join Bella Vista teammate, Emmanuel Tshimanga as a 2019 signee for the UC-Irvine basketball program, as Artest decided to sign with Head Coach Russell Turner and his basketball program. Artest…
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…