Shadow Mountain High School has completely dominated the state of Arizona’s basketball opposition for numerous years now, and this up-and-coming high school basketball season will, not only, be much of the same, but this season the Matadors will have their most loaded team of all. Rather than focus on simply another state championship this high school season, Shadow Mountain will be on completely another level, as they set their sights on a national championship. Shadow is coming off their first scrimmage this week against Horizon High School – a scrimmage which they won by more than 70 points! This week’s…
Author: Anthony Ray
Shadow Mountain High School has completely dominated the state of Arizona’s basketball opposition for numerous years now, and this up-and-coming high school basketball season will, not only, be much of the same, but this season the Matadors will have their most loaded team of all. Rather than focus on simply another state championship this high school season, Shadow Mountain will be on completely another level, as they set their sights on a national championship. Last season’s Shadow Mountain (27-1) ballclub finished with a perfect season in Arizona, before traveling to New York at the end of the season to face…
The season off to a great start in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC), as teams are now positioning themselves for a strong start on the season, until league play begins. Cochise, Chandler-Gilbert and South Mountain JC are each 4-0 to start the season, while Arizona Western fell to 4-1, after an overtime re-match loss (83-82) to Howard JC (TX). Arizona Western started off the season extremely hot, after big road wins over top-rated South Plains (TX) and Howard (TX) on the road. Here are the Players of the Week in the ACCAC, as selected by the league .…
Day one of this weekend’s Duel of the Desert prep event on the Grind Session circuit proved to be about the return to the state of Arizona by Prolific Prep (CA) 6-foot-5, 195-pound senior guard Jared Martin (Montana State commit). Martin decided to leave the state for his senior season for the lure to play for one of the elite prep programs in the West. On Friday evening, he made his return to the state and led his program with some terrific shooting in a 82-61 win over Taylor Made Prep. In the win, Martin led the way for his…
AZ Compass Prep traveled to the state of Nevada this week to take on high school power Findlay Prep (NV) in their second game of the high school season. AZ Compass would make it a good contest, until falling to Findlay Prep, 102-84. In the loss, 6-foot-3 senior guard Dwayne Walker would come up big – scoring 37 points in his team’s loss. Walker is a native of Milwaukee, WI, and moved to the state this high school season to improve his exposure to college coaches and develop as a player, while playing for AZ Compass Prep. Walker attended Juneau…
Recently, Hillcrest Prep received a nice addition to their program, when former 2017 Basha High School graduate Gabe McGlothan decided to join their program. The ultra-athletic and talented 6-foot-6, 210-pound recently decided to leave Army West Point this fall and re-open his college recruitment. McGlothan and athletic 6-foot-3 prep guard Demarius Jacobs will now join the program’s National team for the high school season- teaming up with top-rated national prospect Kyree Walker (Arizona State commit), 6-foot-10 senior post KJ Hymes (University of Nevada commit), , 6-foot-9 junior Dischon Thomas (University of Nevada commit), 6-foot-9 junior post JB Mukeba and 6-foot-3…
AZ Compass Prep’s new National High School team is very talented this high school season. The program had their first big win of the high school season on Monday evening – an 86-82 win over a talented Hillcrest Prep Post-Graduate team at home. The game was a very exciting contest between two of the state’s top teams. Here is a highlight video of the AZ Compass Prep program by AZ Finest Mixtape – the best in the business . . . Join the Forum discussion on this post
Seldom would you think of an ultra-long, athletic and skilled guard prospect as a sleeper prospect, but for AZ Compass Prep 6-foot-6 unsigned senior combo-guard prospect Both Gach that is the case. The Minnesota native is as skilled a player as there is in the state of Arizona, regardless of class, although he is still soaring under the recruiting radar. This week, Gach had a coming-out-party in his team’s narrow home win over a very talented Hillcrest Prep Post-Graduate team on Monday evening. Gach would finish with a game-high 30 points in the win, as he led his team to…
Basha High School’s talented and promising 6-foot-6, 210-pound prep forward Gabe McGlothan has been in the news for some time now, after deciding to leave Army West Point this fall and re-open his college recruitment. While it looked as though McGlothan would decide on another college program for his next destination, instead he has landed at Hillcrest Prep Academy, where he will now play for the program’s National High School team this high school season. After speaking with the Hillcrest Prep coaching staff today, assistant coach Paul Suber advised me that McGlothan never actually signed with the West Point program,…
The state of Arizona is now absolutely loaded with basketball talent in the state – from top to bottom. As a result, while numerous prospects in Arizona’s 2018 senior class have already given verbal commitments this fall and will look to sign with their respective college programs this month, there are still many top-rated basketball prospects still available in the state for college programs to take a very hard look at throughout the high school season, and this spring. Here is Part II of a long list of top-rated basketball prospects still available in the state of Arizona’s 2018 class…