Carrington Wiggins will be far away from home this school year. Goodrich High School’s (MI) leading scorer, 6-foot-1, 150-pound senior guard Carrington Wiggins has accepted a new challenge on the West Coast and decided to leave Goodrich High School to enroll at AZ Compass Prep in Chandler, Ariz. As a junior, the lengthy 6-foot-1, 150-pound combo guard averaged a team-high 17 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists. Over the summer, he blew up on the AAU circuit while playing for Lansing-based Elite Nation but has yet to receive an offer. Here is his recent announcement video . . . Join…
Author: Anthony Ray
GOODRICH, MI – Carrington Wiggins will be far away from home this school year. Goodrich’s leading scorer has accepted a new challenge on the West Coast. Wiggins, 17, has decided to leave Goodrich High School to enroll at AZ Compass Prep in Chandler, Ariz. He will take off early next week. “This may sound a little selfish, but I felt like this is the best opportunity for me to get more colleges looking at me,” Wiggins said. “I feel like if I go out there, it’s a better opportunity for me to get more exposure, get stronger, get faster and…
Arizona’s Finest Mixtape, the state’s leader in basketball video production and one of the top basketball highlight video producers in the country, will be covering this year’s exciting 19th Annual Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, which looks to be one of the best events of it’s kind this year. The event will be for ALL high school and junior high school aged boys (7th & 8th grade). This is the biggest and most exciting exposure event of the year. This event will, once again, be attended by some of the top national and regional basketball scouting services in the country, and…
In huge breaking news on Friday, Hillcrest Prep Academy 6-foot-5 terrific junior wing prospect Josh Green announced that he will be leaving the state of Arizona altogether, and transferring to IMG Academy in Florida for his final two seasons of high school basketball. Green had an impressive spring and summer performance for himself on the Under Armour 16U travel circuit, as, as a result, is now regarded as one of the elite prospects in America’s 2019 class – receiving a recent Top-25 national ranking through ESPN. Green received more than 20 different division-I offers throughout the club season, and at…
The top available unsigned 2017 prospect in the state is now off the recruiting board. Still unsigned this late in the recruiting process and playing throughout the busy recruiting month of July as he considered his options, Cesar Chavez High School’s athletically gifted 6-foot-5, 200-pound ultra-athletic wing prospect Malik Porter has decided on a college home for himself. Last week, after mulling over his many junior college options for the fall, Porter decided to choose the College of Southern Idaho (CSI) for his future destination. CSI is widely known nationally as one of the premier junior college basketball programs in…
Again, the state of Arizona’s basketball talent has gone to another level with the emergence and development of numerous prep basketball programs around the state. AZ Compass Prep, located in Chandler, Arizona, has recently decided to build a national basketball program, and has attracted some top-rated talent to the program under the leadership of Ray and Angela Weathers. Last week, the school received an enrollment from one of the nation’s top 2018 sleeper prospects, Minnesota’s 6-foot-6 senior combo-guard Both Gach. Known as “Booth” by his teammates, Gach is a superb basketball talent with loads of athleticism and a tremendous offensive…
This weekend, 360 Hoops, located in north Scottsdale, and local trainer BJ Letcher, put together a workout of some of the state’s best unheralded basketball talent at their facility for our Arizona Preps’ staff to evaluate in an intimate setting. The workout included some very good sleeper prospects in participation, and here are the top prospects that I evaluated on the day . . . CJ Nnorum 5-11 JR PG/SG Cactus Shadows High School Nrorom is a well-built, physical guard prospect with a superb shooting stroke with unlimited range, and a nice overall feel for scoring the basketball. He is…
With the recent loss of players from the state of Arizona to other state’s to pick up their basketball careers, as I said more players were coming through the prep school ranks. This addition of players at local prep schools will take the state to another level. Introducing Bella Vista Prep 7-foot-1, 220-pound junior post prospect Rick Issanza. With the recent graduation of Hillcrest Prep superstar 7-foot DeAndre Ayton to the University of Arizona, now Issanza takes over where Ayton left off – another huge post talent that runs the floor, has excellent athleticism, finishes strong at the rim and…
One of the better prospects in Arizona’s 2019 class is Chaparral High School’s 6-foot-6 junior forward Alec Bryan. Bryan recently announced that he will be playing this high school basketball season for CGM Prep Academy, a newly-developed prep program in North Scottsdale. Bryan is enrolled in classes at Chaparral High School still, and will continue to take his classes this year at the school and throughout the remainder of his high school career. Current Hillcrest Prep Academy junior wing prospect Josh Green did the same thing last year, when he decided to play for Hillcrest Prep, while still taking his…
The Powerhouse Hoops club organization has grown a great deal over the recent years – producing more than 30 teams locally and becoming the biggest club organization in the state. While the state has many other successful club programs as well now, Powerhouse Hoops has become viable option for many prospects at every level. Recently, the program announced the development and introduction of their new facility, “The PHHacility.” “Every family needs a house – now we have ours,” said the Powerhouse Hoops organization regarding their new basketball facility, which will be finished in the spring of 2018. The new state…