In very surprising fashion thsi week, 6-foot-10 junior post KJ Hymes has decided to transfer high schools next season. After spending several years at St. Mary’s High School, Hymes has decided to move destinations for his final senior year, and will pick up his high school career at Hillcrest Prep Academy. Hillcrest Prep Academy is currently super hot, after winning a national championship recently at thsi year’s Grind Session, and also being the home this high school season to the nation’s top overall 2018 prospect, DeAndre Ayton, a future NBA lottery pick. The lure to play for Hillcrest Prep next…
Author: Anthony Ray
Two of the state’s top overall prospects, while both being committed to college programs, will now have to mull over their recruiting options after the head coaches from both of their future respective college programs have left. With their future college programs in limbo, Shadow Mountain’s 6-foot-1 senior point guard Marcus Shaver (pictured) and Apollo High School’s 6-foot-1 senior point guard Holland “Boo Boo’ Woods will now think things over before making their final college decision. Marcus Shaver (UC-Santa Barbara signee) is one Arizona prospect that many local basketball enthusiasts this high school season believed could have went to a…
As we embark on another exciting aau/club basketball season in the state, it will be another season where we see many of the state’s best basketball talent leave the state to play on club teams abroad – outside of the state of Arizona. With no true shoe-sponsored club program in the state still, many of the state’s top performers and most talented prospects will not be playing for Arizona club teams, again. But this time, it is in much larger numbers than before. There really is no reason for it anymore either, as the two top-rated club programs in the…
This year’s 1st Annual Southwest All-American Camp will be absolutely loaded with top-rated talent this summer, as many of the state’s top prospects have already committed to participate in this year’s camp. Top-rated prospects Nico Mannion (Pinnacle HS-pictured) and Josh Green (Hillcrest Prep-pictured) are just two of the state’s top prospects that will be in attendance for this year’s camp. For the first time ever, Arizona Preps and Arizona Varsity will combine to present the amazing Southwest All American Camp – an invitation only exposure event, which will be held this summer – July 1 – 2, 2017 @ Inspire…
Offers are now beginning to pour in for athletic junior college 6-foot-7 sophomore forward Kwintin Williams. After recently putting himself in a position to qualify academy from the junior college ranks, Williams has received two different high-major division-I offers this week. After a recent offer from a Big-12 program, this week Williams received an offer from a program in the PAC-12 Conference. After recently taking an official recruiting visit to Cal-State Northridge, Williams received an offer from Texas Christian University (TCU) and their basketball staff. This week, Williams received an offer from Washington State University head coach Ernie Kent and…
Cochise Junior College (27-3, 19-3) won this year’s ACCAC Division-I regular season title, and also came away with the ACCAC Division-I Conference Title as well, after blowing out #2 seed Arizona Western, 62-33. Mesa Junior College won another conference title this season, after defeating Pima JC in the championship game in narrow fashion, 74-72. Mesa (22-8, 16-6) also defeated #4 seed Phoenix College in the semi-final game 70-49. Congratulations to both Cochise and Mesa Junior College on their respective Division-I and Division-II Confrence Titles this season. Here are the scores from each of the Divisional Playoffs . . . ACCAC…
Arizona Western Junior College (26-7, 17-5) won this year’s ACCAC Division-I Conference Championship – pulling out a junior college season that would outlast the other teams in the conference. After a season where each team battled throughout the season, it would come down to the conference’s top two division-I teams in the end. After winning their first semi-final match-up at home against Central Arizona, 85-67, Arizona Western would face #2 seed Cochise JC in the ACCAC’s championship game – protecting their home court with a 100-93 win over Cochise College to capture their first Region-I title since 2012. Five guys…
Pima Community College 6-foot-8 sophomore forward Deion James is fresh off leading Pima to an ACCAC Division-II season title, and, for his efforts, James was also selected as the NJCAA Division-II Player of the Week. James helped lead the Aztecs to their first Region-I, Division-II conference championship since 2010. The Aztecs beat Glendale Community College 119-111 in the semifinal round, and then upset #1 seeded Phoenix College 102-99 in the conference final. James averaged 26 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 2.5 steals and 2.5 blocks in the two wins. The Aztecs will be the #8 seed for the NJCAA Division-II…
It is all coming together for Pima Junior College 6-foot-8 sophomore forward Deion James. After just leading his program to this year’s 2017 ACCAC Division-II junior college basketball title, and being selected as the Tournament Most Valuable Player, James is now seeing much higher college recruitment. This week, James received a new PAC-12 offer. With numerous schools now either offering or expressing strong interest in him, Washington State head coach Ernie Kent extended a scholarship offer to the gifted 4-man prospect. James has not expressed any leaders thus far in his college recruitment, so it will be interesting to see…
Hillcrest Prep Academy has proven to everyone in the country that they are for real and among the very elite programs in all of America. A talented group of college prospects, led by the play of the nation’s top overall prospect in the 2018 Class – 7-foot-1 senior post DeAndre Ayton (University of Arizona signee), led Hillcrest Prep to a national title this weekend. The championship came after winning this year’s very loaded Grind Session. Held at Arizona Christian University, the event featured many of the nation’s top overall prep programs. In a loaded field of teams in the event,…