Shadow Mountain High School’s skilled 5-foot-10, 165-pound sophomore point guard Jovan Blacksher has another scholarship offer for himself, after receiving another offer for himself this weekend from a program in the Big-Sky Conference. After recently receiving offers from Cal-State Northridge and UC-Davis, his first two division-I offers, this weekend Blacksher received another offer from the University of Northern Colorado. Blacksher is a unique guard talent that is coming off a superb sophomore season for himself, and is now beginning to receive serious college recruitment as a result. Blacksher is playing this club season with the highly Adidas-sponsored Compton Magic club…
Author: Anthony Ray
One of the hottest prospects to emerge during the NCAA Evaluation Period was Cactus Shadows High School’s 6-foot-9, 240-pound unsigned senior post Cassius Smits-Francisco. An unknown prospect before the evaluation period, Smits took full advantage of his opportunities this spring and earned several division-I scholarship offers as a result. With no offers on the table for himself heading nto the evaluation period, Smits has now received offers from the University of Idaho, UW-Milwaukee and the University of Illinois-Chicago. Smits is also generating loads of college interest from numerous other college programs, so more offers could begin to pour in very…
The recruiting race has began very early for Pinnacle High School’s star 6-foot-2 freshman combo-guard prospect Nico Mannion. After already receiving a Top 10 national ranking among the nation’s elite members of the 2020 Class, Mannion has become an extremely hot commodity for many high-major college programs across the country, as the young basketball prospect is already generating loads of division-I offers for himself. Like his club teammate Josh Green with the Earl Watson ELite (CA), Mannion has generated numerous scholarship offers for himself over the past week. In the past week, Mannion has received offers from Stanford, UNLV, Tulane…
Not since NBA guard Jerryd Bayless (Philadelphia 76ers) graced the Arizona hardwood as a prospect for St. Mary’s High School have we seen a young man receive so much college recruitment. Hillcrest Prep Academy 6-foot-5 sophomore wing Josh Green is receiving scholarship offers almost daily, as the gifted young prospect recently received a Top 25 national ranking by Scout Hoops.com. Over the past week, Green has received almost double-digit scholarship offers as Texas A&M, USC, University of Washington, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Wake Forest and Marquette each have offered scholarships to Green. Green also currently has offers from the University…
Shadow Mountain High School’s 5-foot-11, 160-pound sophomore guard Jaelyn House has finally received his first scholarship offer and it’s a big one for himself, as the Arizona State Sun Devils and head coach Bobby Hurley have jumped on board this young man’s college recruitment early in the recruiting process. It was a mystery when House might receive his first scholarship offer, especially with many other Arizona prospects of late generating loads of them. With House being one of the state’s elite overall prospects, regardless of class, it was just a matter of time for him to pick up considerable interest,…
One of the hottest prospects in the country right now is Hillcrest Prep Academy 6-foot-5 sophomore wing Josh Green. Fresh off a national championship with Hillcrest Prep this season, Green has seen his college recruitment really take off this spring. Green traveled to New York this weekend – taking part in the Under Armour Association travel circuit’s first session with his club program Earl Watson Elite (CA). In the event, Green played exceptionally well, averaging well over 20+ points per/game in the event. As a result of another strong performance for Green, he received two more high-major division-I offers for…
Over the weekend, our Arizona Preps’ staff traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada to observe the action in this year’s Pangos Sweet 16 exposure event. Organized by top-rated West Coast scout Dinos Trigonis, the event was filled with many club programs from the West Coast. Of all the Arizona prospects that we watched this weekend in action, Westview High School’s talented 6-foot-3 sophomore guard D’Maurian Williams would emerge in a major way in the event. Williams has been pegged as one of the elite prospects in Arizona’s 2019 Class for some time in the state of Arizona, but while he had…
Saguaro High School’s 6-foot-5, 195-pound junior guard/forward Jared Martin has received his first scholarship offer – the first of many. This weeked, Martin received his first scholarship offer from a program in the West Coast Conference (WCC). With the beginning to the evaluation period this past weekend, Martin has received an offer from Loyola Marymount University. The West Coast Conference is a very good level for Martin, who could generate interest from bigger schools over time. Martin made the biggest jump in our recent player rankings for Arizona’s 2018 class of prospects (Arizona Hoop Review Scouting Report). Martin recently also…
Pima Community College 6-foot-8 sophomore forward Deion James took another official recruiting visit this weekend. This time to Washington State University. James recently also visited Colorado State and Fresno State, and advised us that he enjoyed all three visits. While James has not indicated which school is a leader for him at this point, he will look to make his college decision very soon. James will also take a visit this weekend to Southern Utah. James is coming off an excellent sophomore season for himself in the ACCAC – leading Pima to an ACCAC Division-II season title, their first Region-I,…
One of the elite overall prospects in Arizona’s talented 2019 Class is Shadow Mountain High School’s gifted and skilled 5-foot-10, 165-pound sophomore point guard Jovan Blacksher. Blacksher is a unique guard talent that is coming off a superb sophomore season for himself, and is now taking his game to the national aau/club circuit, and, as a result, is beginning to generate loads of division-I interest for himself. Blacksher is playing this club season with the highly Adidas-sponsored Compton Magic club basketball program, and will be gaining loads of exposure with the program while playing on the Adidas Gauntlet basketball circuit…