The season off to a great start in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC), as teams are now beginning league play. Here are the Players of the Week in the ACCAC, as selected by the league . . . ACCAC D-I Player of the Week: Chaz Mack – Sophomore Forward – Cochise College Chaz Mack is off to a strong start in the conference. He scored 22 points, while shooting 50% from the field and collected 8 rebounds in a win for Cochise to move them to 5-0 on the season. ACCAC D-II Player of the Week: Dom Bradley – Sophomore Forward -…
Author: Anthony Ray
It just might have been a preview to this year’s 5A State Championship game, as the state’s top team teams in the division faced off in exciting fashion in the finals of this year’s Hoopsgiving pre-season tournament at Sunnyslope High School on Friday evening. Sunnyslope (3-1) would host in the event, and look to win the tournament championship again, after appearing in the 5A state finals the last two seasons, and winning the 2017 State Championship. Deer Valley High School (4-0) is our favorite this high school season to get there as well, as the team is absolutely loaded with…
Arizona high school student-athletes today do not know much about Arizona’s rich high school basketball tradition, but the state of Arizona has produced a large number of top college and professional players over the years. While the state is not widely recognized as a hotbed for basketball talent around the country, when you stop and think about it, if you know anything about our rich history, you would realize that the state has produced many great players at every college level – players that have paved the way for many Arizona high school basketball players today. Two of the best…
We would like to wish everyone in the Arizona basketball community a Happy Thanksgiving from the entire Arizona Preps’ staff, which includes a large number of people that have helped to make this website one of the best in the business – covering Arizona high school and junior college basketball since 1999. To all the high school, prep school and junior college coaches and players in the state, we would like to give thanks to all of you for your efforts in coaching and playing the game to the best of your ability every night. We would also like to…
Sunnyslope High School (3-0), the defending 5A State Champions, are already rolling this high school season – sporting a very poised team that has done this before, several times. Led by the overall play of 6-foot-4, 175-pound senior forward Kyle Fischer and an experienced and balanced attack, the Vikings would cruise past a very talented Rancho Solano Prep (2-1) team on Wednesday evening in the semi-finals of their annual Hoopsgiving Pre-season Tournament – advancing to the tournament’s championship game. Rancho Solano is one of the state’s most talented teams, but they are still very young. It would show on Wednesday…
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s Hoophall West High School Invitational will again be held at Chaparral High School on December 8-9, 2017 and will, again, be loaded with top-rated national talent from across the country. Our Arizona Preps’ staff will be in attendance again for this year’s event, and will bring you complete coverage of the event’s top performers. Here are the exciting details for this year’s event . . . American Family Insurance Hoophall West Game Schedule Friday, December 8th 3:30 PM Oak Hill Academy, VA vs. Lone Peak High School, UT 5:15 PM Shadow Mountain High…
AZ Compass Prep’s National Team is very talented in their first season. After coming back from their biggest test of the season, where they faced a gifted Findlay Prep (NV) team, which resulted in a loss, the team was ready to get back to business in a local prep match-up at home with CGM Prep Academy on Tuesday evening. CGM Prep Academy is a new prep program in Arizona, that features (7) different post-graduate teams – compiling close to 100 different student-athletes in their program. Led by Greg Strickland, Derrick Ulrich and former division-I basketball coach and player Tony Miller, the program…
With the 2017-2018 high school basketball season officially getting underway on Monday, there were numerous tournaments taking place across the state on the evening. I decided to attend a charter school tournament for the time first time ever, as the annual Turkey Shootout took place on Monday with numerous teams in action. Organized by Skyline Prep HS and head coach Jace Romero and his staff, this event annually features some of the state’s top charter school programs. With numerous teams in action on the evening, I was able to catch an evening game between AZ Compass Prep’s high school team…
The 2017-2018 Arizona high school basketball season is set to get underway this week around the state with numerous Thanksgiving pre-season tournaments – setting up another exciting high school basketball season. There will be hundreds of teams and players getting underway this week, and it will be another exciting season of basketball. In the former words of past South Mountain High School head coach, now current UCLA assistant David Grace, “I know it’s going to be a good day, because I hear balls bouncing.” This season will be an exciting one again as it will be highlighted by several teams…
On day two of this year’s Duel in the Desert showcase event, the day was highlighted by two games in the evening which featured a nice match-up between Prolific Prep (CA) and Bella Vista Prep, and then another exciting match-up between Hillcrest Prep and Findlay Prep (NV). While both games would attract a lot of fans and excitement, only one of the games would deliver. Bella Vista would fall on a last second shot to undefeated Prolific, while Findlay Prep would roll against a talented Hillcrest Prep team. The Duel in the Desert event is part of the Grind Session…