Gilbert’s Highland High School 6-foot-3, 215-pound senior do-it-all performer Noah Peterson is coming off an excellent senior season for himself, after leading his program to an impressive 26-3 overall record and a 6A State Championship. Peterson was one of the best senior prospects in the state of Arizona this high school season, and earned an opportunity to be a Division-I prospect as a result of his stellar play as a senior. Instead of signing with a Division-I college program this spring, Peterson instead will take a different path for himself. While I had marveled at which college program would ultimately…
Author: Anthony Ray
It was a wild recruiting ride for two-time NJCAA All-American Yaxel Lendeborg. After a previous commitment to St. John’s University, and then deciding to re-open his college recruitment, after the firing of former Head Coach Mike Anderson, Lendeborg became available again for college coaches to pursue. After waiting on the right college suitor for himself, Lendeborg and his Arizona Western teammate, 6-foot-3 sophomore guard Marquis Hargrove, both announced in surprising fashion on social media that they had both decided to accept scholarship offers to UAB. UAB Head Coach Andy Kennedy will enter his fourth season next fall at the helm…
Phoenix College 6-foot-3 sophomore guard Mike Rogers has been regarded as a sure-fire athletic talent for many years – in the sport of basketball and football. A native of New York where he made a name for himself as one of the best to do it, Rogers has had to overcome many challenges and obstacles throughout his life to get to where he is today. Today he is in a great place, after achieving many of his goals on and off the basketball court, and now giving a big verbal commitment to a Division-I basketball program in the Horizon League.…
While it has taken some time for us to release our annual Player of the Year nominations in each region of the state of Arizona, here are our selections for these honors, as selected by our amazing and hard-working Arizona Preps staff. We will select our Player(s) of the Year for boys and girls high school basketball in the state of Arizona. Each of our selections will include our top performers throughout the state for the AIA, CAA and prep school divisions, as each selection by our staff will encompass each division for consideration. Here is this year’s 2023 selections…
While it has taken some time for us to release our annual Player of the Year nominations in each region of the state of Arizona, here are our selections for these honors, as selected by our amazing and hard-working Arizona Preps staff. We will select our Player(s) of the Year for boys and girls high school basketball in the state of Arizona. Each of our selections will include our top performers throughout the state for the AIA, CAA and prep school divisions, as each selection by our staff will encompass each division for consideration. Here are this year’s 2023 selections…
One of the top prospects in the state of Arizona for some time, was 6-foot-2 junior guard Adam Njie. Njie played for Eduprize Prep and Hillcrest Prep, before moving back to the state of New York for his junior season, where he played for Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, New York. Regarded as one of the top guard prospects in the country, Njie announced his decision Saturday over social media to commit to Washington State University and Head Coach Kyle Smith and his men’s basketball staff. This is a nice early commitment for Washington State and a very…
It is still very early in the college recruiting process for Scottsdale Christian Academy’s 6-foot-7 freshman Elijah Williams and Millennium High School’s 6-foot-6 freshman Cameron Holmes, but both prospects are receiving rave national recruiting attention already. Both members of the AZ Unity 16U Nike-sponsored EYBL team this spring and summer, both elite young prospects have both now received a scholarship offer from the University of Arizona and Head Coach Tommy Lloyd and his men’s basketball staff. Lloyd is getting in on these two elite young prospects and has made his pledge to the two 2026 prospects. Elijah Williams is a…
The exciting Nike EYBL Session II was held in the state of Arizona this weekend @ the Legacy Sports Complex in the East Valley for the first time in Arizona basketball history. This high-powered event brought loads of Nike-sponsored programs and players to the valley this weekend, which attracted a large numbers of college basketball coaches and national scouts and media. I was able to catch a lot of the action this weekend and was ultimately surprised with how many top-rated Arizona prospects were in participation over the weekend on local and out-of-state club programs, and at several different age…
The exciting Nike EYBL Session II was held in the state of Arizona this weekend @ the Legacy Sports Complex in the East Valley for the first time in Arizona basketball history. This high-powered event brought loads of Nike-sponsored programs and players to the valley this weekend, which attracted a large numbers of college basketball coaches and national scouts and media. I was able to catch a lot of the action this weekend and was ultimately surprised with how many top-rated Arizona prospects were in participation over the weekend on local and out-of-state club programs, and at several different age…
In amazing fashion on Tuesday afternoon, Perry High School’s athletic 6-foot-3 unsigned senior guard Ben Egbo announced his commitment to the UC-Irvine basketball program – a huge opportunity for Egbo who waited for a very long time for this offer. After years of hard work and waiting for his share of college recruitment, it all worked out in a major way for Egbo in the end, as he will now play his college basketball in the Big West Conference. Egbo did what he needed to do to make this commitment happen for himself, as he competed on the Nike EYBL…