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…
Author: Anthony Ray
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…
Recently, the state of Arizona’s level of basketball talent received a shot in the arm when one of the nation’s top 2022 prospects, Devontes Cobbs, a 6-foot-4 freshman prospect and stud prospect, moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and enrolled at Arizona power Shadow Mountain High School. This past weekend, Cobbs showcased his superior young talent and skills at the illustrious Pangos Frosh/Soph Camp in Los Angeles, CA. The Pangos Frosh/Soph All-West Camp, organized by one of the nation’s elite scouts Dinos Trigonis, has been the proving ground for the top young prospects in the West for many years. Annually, this event proves the West’s…
The annual Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) Junior College Jamboree is set to take place on Saturday, October 13th on the campus of Chandler-Gilbert Community College. Here is the complete game schedule for the day, as each program is scheduled to play one game on the day. Our staff from Arizona Preps will be in full attendance for the event, and will bring you complete coverage of the event’s top performers from the day . . . ACCAC JUCO Jamboree Game Schedule 12:00 PM Chandler-Gilbert CC VS South Mountain CC 1:30 PM Eastern Arizona College VS Glendale CC 3:00 PM Cochise…
AZ Compass Prep continues to develop as a national prep program – bringing in loads of serious talent for their second true season of having a national prep program. After recently acquiring the nation’s former #1 ranked 2019 national prospect, Chol Marial, to their program, Compass Prep has recently been bringing other top-rated national talent to go with him. One of these top prospects that has ventured to the program this season, and will provide a nice boost to the program’s overall level of talent will be 6-foot-4 junior guard Xavier Dusell. Dusell recently decided to transfer to the Compass…
The state of Arizona’s rapidly developing basketball culture has completely gone to another level recently, and has been changed forever as a result of the emergence of many new prep schools in the valley. The program that started it all, of course, was Hillcrest Prep. Organized by basketball aficionado Nick Weaver and Matt Allen, the basketball program has changed the basketball landscape in the state through producing consistent high-major division-I basketball talent, and also bringing major national attention to the state through such national prospects as this year’s #1 NBA Draft Pick DeAndre Ayton (Phoenix Suns). Program Director Matt Allen and…
And then there were (4) schools, as Bella Vista Prep’s ultra-talented 6-foot-7, 175-pound senior wing Terry Armstrong has now narrowed his list of college suitors down to his final four. Armstrong is our top true 2019 prospect in the class (excluding Nico Mannion-Arizona commit). The athletic wing has generated loads of division-I interest for himself over the past year, and recently he narrowed down his once long recruiting list. Once having an extremely long list of potential college suitors, Armstrong is now narrowing his college decision for the fall. Armstrong is now focusing on four schools – Arizona, Oklahoma, Oregon and New…
After what seemed like a long college recruitment, although it was actually a year sooner than it would have been, the exciting college recruitment of Pinnacle High School’s superstar 6-foot-3 senior guard Nico Mannion has come to an end, after the gifted guard prospect selected the University of Arizona and head coach Sean Miller and his staff on Friday. While it was an exciting recruitment for Mannion, he decided to pull the trigger very early in the recruiting process – giving his verbal pledge a year earlier than expected and in the early fall recruiting period. Recently, Mannion had narrowed down his list of schools to two…
It has been a very interesting and difficult road, but it is headed to end in fine fashion for Hillcrest Prep’s 6-foot-7, 225-pound senior forward Stephan Gabriel. After playing very well in several events this summer and raising his recruiting stock a great deal, and after taking a couple recruiting visits, Gabriel has decided to end his college recruitment – giving a verbal commitment to Bradley University in Illinois, and a member of the very competitive Missouri Valley Conference. Gabriel took an official recruiting visit to Montana State recently, before visiting Bradley last weekend. Gabriel also received offers from Montana, Fairleigh Dickinson, Wagner and Maine…