Numerous players have made a nice jump in our recent player rankings for their respective classes over the spring and summer, and one prospect that has made one of the biggest jumps in recent Arizona Hoop Review Scouting Report that goes out to college coaches is Bella Vista Prep’s talented and athletic 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior guard Nicolas Elame. Elame is among the best overall players in Arizona’s 2019 Class, and while he has (5) offers for himself currently, he is one prospect definitely on the rise. While Elame is receiving some attention from college coaches currently, he is actually better…
Author: Anthony Ray
Arizona Preps is very pleased to announce that one of the nation’s top prep school programs, and a member of the national Grind Session, Lincoln Academy (GA) will be attending this year’s 20th Annual Arizona Preps Fall Showcase. Lincoln Academy is absolutely loaded with division-I talent and looks to make this year’s event one to remember. Lincoln Academy head coach Bryan Lippman, one of the top up-and-coming young coaches in America, and his basketball staff have quickly developed Lincoln into one of the nation’s elite prep programs. Founded in 2017, the basketball program has competed against some of the best…
The time has arrived after 20 years of events, the amazing 20th Annual Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, Arizona’s original showcase basketball event, will be held on Saturday and Sunday, October 20th and 21st, 2018 and will be making it’s return to the very nice venue – Inspire Courts, located at 1090 North Fiesta Blvd, Gilbert, Arizona 85233. This year’s event will include the biggest celebration in the event’s history, as many of the past top performers and MVP’s will be in the building. Our Arizona Preps’ staff will highlight the efforts of the past 20 years of top performers and players from this historic tournament, and present awards…
After deciding to leave Desert Vista High School recently for his senior season, and to go the prep school route for his final year, 6-foot-2 senior talented point guard Tyrek Chambers has landed at a prep program in the valley, after deciding to take his game to Bella Vista Prep. Chambers will provide the Bella Vista program with a gifted point guard prospect for the season, after the recent departure of senior point guard Julian Dozier, who returned home to his native home of Michigan for his senior season. Chambers is a superb talent that ventured to the state of Arizona via Brooklyn,…
The Southwest Showcase Discovery Camp, organized by valley basketball aficionado Ron Coleman, will be held this Sunday, October 7th from 10AM to 5PM for incoming freshmen and invited 8th graders. The event will be held at The KROC Rec Center in South Phoenix. Arizona Preps will be on hand for this weekend’s event to bring you our top overall prospects and performers from this weekend’s event. Here is some more information on this weekend’s event . . . Cost: $60 Camp Schedule 10AM – Camp Registration 10:30AM – Opening Discussion 10:45AM – Skills Stations 12:00PM – Lunch 12:30PM – Guest Speakers…
Arizona’s 2020 Class of college prospects is absolutely loaded with division-I talent for the future, and many college programs are now taking a strong focus on individual prospects in the group. Tri-City Christian High School’s 6-foot-11 junior post Fallou Diagne emerged in the state last season, and his potential to play the game became imminent and glaring among college coaches. This weekend, Niang received a huge division-I offer for himself early in the recruiting process. I have always stated that this young man would garner high-major division-I interest for himself over time, and now an elite division-I program in the country has…
Hillcrest Prep 6-foot-4 sophomore guard Dimitrios Stragalinos has been regarded among the elite 2021 prospects in the West. As a result of his early potential as a college prospect, the gifted young guard prospect has received two different division-I offers for himself early in the recruiting process. As a result of his tremendous potential for the future, two different division-I programs have stepped up early in the young man’s recruiting process and extended scholarship offers to him. The University of Wyoming was the first college program to provide an offer for Stragalinos. Recently, Bradley University would also offer him, giving…
Buckeye Union High School is among the top overall basketball programs in the state, and their team got even better this off-season when they received a transfer to their program, as 6-foot-4 senior guard Isaiah Marin left Copper Canyon High School and landed at the program. This week, Marin received his first division-I offer from a program in the MEAC Conference. Marin received a visit to his high school this week from North Carolina A&T head coach Jay Joyner, and after Joyner caught his first glimpse of Marin this week, he liked the slick guard prospect enough to extend an…
The recruiting process has been a very interesting one for Hillcrest Prep 6-foot-9 senior forward Dischon Thomas. After giving a verbal commitment to the University of Nevada last fall, Thomas enters this fall as an uncommitted prospect. While currently an uncommitted prospect, Thomas has received several new scholarship offers for himself, and will look to make a new college decision for himself. A year ago, Thomas decided to end his college recruitment – pulling the trigger with one of the top mid-major plus programs in America, the University of Nevada. But after thinking things over, Thomas decided to de-commit and re-open…
Arizona’s 2022 Class of prospects is absolutely loaded at the highest level and looks to definitely be the best class of prospects since 2014, and possibly ever. The class is filled with young prospects that have already received raving national attention, and Hillcrest Prep’s 6-foot-4 freshman guard prospect Dorell Thomas is one young prospect that is generating serious recruiting attention for himself early in the process. This week, Thomas received his second division-I offer as the University of Wyoming extended an offer to the budding young performer. The offer was the second division-I offer for Thomas, who also received an…