Pinnacle High School’s superstar 6-foot-3 rising sophomore combo-guard prospect Nico Mannion has received loads of recruiting attention nationally since entering the high school ranks. After also receiving a Top-25 national ranking by ESPN for America’s 2020 class, Mannion has seen scholarship offers pour in for himself over the past year. This week, while playing exceptionally well in Las Vegas with his club program, Earl Watson Elite (CA), Mannion received another PAC-12 scholarship offer for himself, as the University of Washington extended an offer to the budding young star prospect. Mannion also possesses PAC-12 offers already from Stanford, University of Arizona,…
Author: Anthony Ray
One of the top available prospects in Arizona’s 2017 class is now officially off the recruiting board, for at least two years, after Cesar Chavez High School’s 6-foot-9, 225-pound unsigned senior post Demond Hart decided to elect to go to Lee College (TX) – one of the most loaded junior colleges in the country. Lee College (TX) is widely known in the junior college ranks as one of the top-rated junior college programs in America currently, consistently known for producing high-major division-I talent. While the program is also known for underachieving with such top-rated talent, there is no mistaking the…
Thursday was a very long day for our Arizona Preps’ staff as we covered games in Las Vegas at all three events – Big Foot Hoops Las Vegas Classic, The Fab 48 and the Adidas Uprising Summer Championships. While driving back and forth between each of these three events, it made for a very long day of basketball and coverage. Here are the top individual performers that I observed from the day’s action at the Big Foot Hoops and Fab 48 events . . . Jared Martin 6-5 SR SG/SF Saguaro HS – 2018 Class Martin shot the basketball extremely well on Thursday and…
Thursday was a very long day for our Arizona Preps’ staff as we covered games in Las Vegas at all three events – Big Foot Hoops Las Vegas Classic, The Fab 48 and the Adidas Uprising Summer Championships. While driving back and forth between each of these three events, it made for a very long day of basketball and coverage. Here are the top individual performers that I observed from the day’s action at the Adidas Uprising Summer Championships . . . Kyree Walker 6-4 SOPH PG/SG Hillcrest Prep – 2020 Class Walker is playing this weekend for the Adidas…
One of the top overall prospects in Arizona’s 2018 class is Desert Vista High School’s long and athletic 6-foot-8, 190 pound rising senior post Christian Anigwe. Anigwe is regarded among the elite overall post prospects in Arizona’s 2018 class, and currently has two different scholarship offers for himself heading into Vegas this week. Anigwe has progressed a great deal over the past year as a player, and this spring and summer he has come into his own as a college prospect – competing at a much higher level and playing much more aggressive in the paint – showing much more activity…
One of the top prospects in Arizona’s talented 2019 class is Apollo High School’s 6-foot-6, 160-pound long and rangy sophomore forward Emmanuel Taban. Taban emerged last club season as a talented and budding young prospect for the future, and, this club season, he has come into his own as a college prospect. This summer, while playing for his club program, The Factory, Taban has had to handle the basketball full-time in the backcourt, due to the absence of club teammate, D’Maurian Williams. Williams suffered a severe ankle injury before the summer began, and, as a result, Taban has seen much time…
Perry High School’s 6-foot-2 sophomore guard Jalen Williams has been one of the state’s top performers this club season, making some noise for hismelf as one of the better prospects in Arizona’s 2019 class. Today, after a recent strong performance in Georgia last week, Williams received his first scholarship offer. The talented and silky-smooth guard prospect has had strong performances all spring and summer, so today Hofstra University made their case for landing the gifted guard prospect for the future – offering a scholarship to Williams. The offer by Hofstra was the first offer for Williams, whom I expect to…
One of the better sleeper prospects in Arizona’s 2018 Class has put himself into the conversation among the better prospects in the state. Liberty High School’s 6-foot-5 rising senior wing prospect Quentin Guliford had an excellent showing for himself this spring, and has continued his strong play this summer. As a result of his recent success on the club circuit, Guliford is beginning to come into his own as a college prospect. One of the better sleeper prospects now in Arizona’s 2018 class, I expect Guliford to continue raising eyebrows with his play this summer. According to Guliford’s club coach…
Arizona Preps also covered this past weekend’s Pangos Sweet 16 tournament held at Cerritos College in Garden Grove, California. In the process, we were able to catch many Arizona prospects in action. Here are the top individual performers that we saw in action in this year’s event . . . Emmanuel Taban 6-7 JR SG/SF Apollo HS – 2019 Class This was a breakout tournament for Taban (pictured), who also played very well in the spring. Taban is a nice talent with a nice overall skillset and serious upside as a player. Possessing very good length of body and athleticism,…
Arizona Preps ventured to Anaheim, California this weekend to watch this year’s Double Pump Spring Tip-Off at the large and busy American Sports Center. With close to 30 courts in action at one time, this year’s event was well organized and filled with talented prospects. I was able to watch the majority of Arizona prospects in action on the day, and here are the top individual performers I watched in the event . . . Top 2017 Prospects Caleb Simmons 6-6 SR SF Desert Vista HS – 2017 Class Simmons played in this weekend’s event with a talented Splash City…