It was a super long road for Deer Valley High School 2018 graduate, 6-foot-7 forward Bryce Davis. After going throughout his senior season and also graduating school without a division-I offer, Davis has landed his offer and has now signed with the University of the Incarnate Word, where he will now play this fall. The University of the Incarnate Word is a division-I program located in San Antonio, Texas, and is a member of the Southland Conference. Davis had seen numerous division-II programs extend offers to him, but he seemed to be waiting for the right program to come around…
Author: Anthony Ray
It is very hard to believe that the storied high school basketball career of Pinnacle High School’s superstar guard Nico Mannion is already winding down, but the 2018-2019 high school basketball season will now be the last one for Mannion, after he recently announced that he would leave the 2020 class, and become a member of America’s 2019 class – graduating a year early and moving on to the collegiate ranks. Here is a superb highlight reel of Mannion from this spring and summer Under Armour basketball circuit, while playing for West Coast Elite (CA) . . . Join the…
It is very hard to believe that the storied high school basketball career of Pinnacle High School’s superstar guard Nico Mannion is already winding down, but the 2018-2019 high school basketball season will now be the last one for Mannion, after he recently announced that he would leave the 2020 class, and become a member of America’s 2019 class – graduating a year early and moving on to the collegiate ranks. Former Arizona star guard guard Matt Carlino (Marquette, BYU) of Highland HS did the same thing years ago, and signed with UCLA out of high school a year earlier,…
The state of Arizona continues to see the overall level of talent in the state consistently improve with new additions to the state’s basketball community. Almost each quarter now a new top-rated prospect seems to move to one of the basketball program’s in the state. Arizona Preps has learned that one of the nation’s top 2022 prospects, Devontes Cobbs, a 6-foot-4 incoming freshman superstar, has moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and now has enrolled at Arizona power Shadow Mountain High School. Shadow Mountain has completely dominated the state of Arizona’s basketball opposition for numerous years now, and this up-and-coming high school…
Another prospect that cashed in during the spring and summer NCAA Evaluation period was 2018 Ironwood High School graduate, 6-foot-7 prep forward Ajang Aguek. After seeing very little college recruitment throughout his high school career, Aguek played through the spring and summer and raised eyebrows with his play and high motor. Aguek had a strong summer performance especially for himself, but his best performance came in this summer’s Fab 48 event when Aguek gained a lot of recruiting attention from college coaches. I received numerous phone calls regarding Aguek this summer, and now it has paid off for him, as…
The NCAA’s spring evaluation period, both spring and summer, was a good one for many of Arizona’s top prospects, but one prospect that capitalized on the opportunity to maximize his exposure to college coaches was Hillcrest Prep’s 6-foot-5, 170-pound junior guard Dalen Terry, one of the state’s elite prospects. After a sophomore season where he clearly emerged as one of the state’s elite young talents, Terry had a strong spring and summer performance for himself and is now regarded as one of the top up-and-coming prospects in the West. Terry elected to play this spring for the Compton Magic (CA) club program, and…
Hillcrest Prep 6-foot-5 superstar junior guard Kyree Walker (Arizona State commit) is among the elite overall prospects in America’s 2020 Class – regarded by everyone as a Top-10 national prospect in the class. Walker committed to Bob Hurley and the Arizona State Sun Devils as a freshman, and the gifted prospect has yet to waver in his commitment – a nice aspect of Walker which helps to prove him as a fine young man and a future leader for the Sun Devil program. A tremendous talent, Walker is a serious basketball player with an advanced feel for playing the game and a superb overall skillset. He has…
One of the elite younger prospects in the state of Arizona is coming off a big summer performance, which resulted in numerous offers for himself. Millennium High School’s promising young 6-foot-8, 180-pound sophomore forward DaRon Holmes is a big-time future prospect in the state, and numerous college programs have already positioned themselves with the talented budding young prospect. This summer, after several strong performances in the ASU Team Camp, GCU Elite Camp and also his play during the NCAA evaluation period, Holmes made a lot of noise and became a very hot commodity early in the recruiting process – enough…
Tucson’s Amphitheater High School’s 6-foot-3 talented senior guard prospect Jackson Ruai is one of the state’s most athletically gifted talents in the 2019 class, and is coming off a strong showing for himself this summer. After an MVP performance in this summer’s Southwest All-American Camp, and a superb performance during the NCAA’s evaluation period, Ruai is preparing himself for a college commitment this fall. Late last week, Ruai decided to narrow his list of college suitors to (3) schools. After receiving offers from Nevada, Grand Canyon, UC-Davis, Utah Valley, Houston Baptist, Portland State and NAU, Ruai has now trimmed his list of schools he is considering to UC-Davis,…
It has taken awhile for Bella Vista Prep 7-foot-1, 220-pound senior post prospect Rick Issanza to see his college recruitment take off to the level I had expected when I first saw him perform three years ago, but it has now picked up a great deal and seems to be making up for lost time. Last week, Issanza had a big week of offers and could become one of the hottest prospects in America’s 2019 class this fall, and possibly next spring. Late last week, after waiting for his college recruitment to take off, Issanza received two big offers from members of the…