It was a long road for Shadow Mountain High School’s talented senior point guard prospect Michael Bibby, as he graduated from high school before making his final college decision. After finishing high school, Bibby would play through the summer looking to land a scholarship offer for himself. After going through the entire summer months without a scholarship for hmself, Bibby would finally land one for himself and at the right level for himself, as he signed with a high-major division-I program – South Florida and head coach Orlando Antigua. Bibby had held out all spring and summer, waiting for the…
Author: Anthony Ray
Arizona’s 2017 senior class of prospects has a talented group of performers. One of the elite prospects in the class is Tri-City Christian High School’s 6-foot-9 senior post Nigel Shadd. Shadd has quickly emerged among the top prospects in the class. While the class is not very deep with division-I prospects, Shadd is among the top overall performers in the state. Shadd is coming off a good spring and summer performance while traveling with his club program, the Arizona Power-Factory. I caught up with Shadd last weekend at the Pangos Arizona Showcase, and he advised me that he is…
The Pangos Arizona Showcase took place this weekend at Desert Edge High School in the west valley, and brought together the best collection of college basketball scouts/media the state of Arizona has seen this year. Tournament organizer Dinos Trigonis, one of the top scouts in the West and director of the Pangos All-American Camp, brought together such top-rated scouts as Frank Burlison (BurlisonOnBasketball.com) and Jerry Mullens (Top national junior college scout) for the event. Chad Groth (Area Codes Basketball), Jeff Meadows (Hoops Report), Ronnie Flores (Student-Sports), Gregg Rosenberg (Arizona Rivals) and Matt Rodriguez (BallisLife.com) made up the nice number of scouts/media in attendance…
Corona Del Sol High School’s superb 6-foot-2, 170-pound senior sharp-shooting guard Alex Barcello has trimmed his recruiting list down to 5 schools. After loads of college recruitment throughout his high school career, which began very early in his basketball career, Barcello has now selected five schools that he will choose from. Barcello has released that he will decide from Arizona, Butler, Indiana, Stanford and Virginia. “Basically all these schools that I narrowed my list to, I didn’t want too big of a list,” Barcello told Scout.com. “I looked at everything about the schools. I have a close relationship with each…
Many prospects around the country now utilize the club season to make a name for themselves on the recruiting front. As a result, the opportunity to play for top-rated club teams has become an important aspect of the process. For many top-rated Arizona prsopects over the years, the same decision has become common place. For Chandler High School’s rapidly developing and ultra-talented 2018 prospect, 6-foot-6, 185 pound SG/W Tevian Jones, the decision was easy after his older brother Torren Jones selected the Nike sponsored Cal Supreme during his club career. Tevian would do the same this spring and summer -…
The Pangos Arizona Showcase is set to kick off on Saturday @ Desert Edge HS, with games on Saturday scheduled for 1PM. Arizona Preps will be in attendance all day for the action, and bring you complete updates of the top performers from this year’s event. Here is this year’s complete game schedule for the one day event . . . 1:00pm Top 20 8th Grade Game ** 2:00pm Top 20 Frosh Game ** 3:00pm “Top 20” Soph Game ** 4:00pm “Top 20” Junior Game 5:00pm “Top 40” Senior Game ** 6:00pm “Top 20” Senior Game Join the Forum discussion on…
On September 17th and 18th, Ryan Silver and West Coast Elite Basketball will be hosting their 2nd annual WCE All-Star Camp- Arizona at South Mountain Community College. Last year’s event was one of the best youth events held in Arizona, and we are really looking forward to this years’ event as well. On September 17th, Grades 2-8 will be competing in the all day event and September 18th, Grades 9-12 will then play. For instructions to sign up, feel free to go to www.westcoastelitebasketball.com/arizona We look forward to seeing you out there playing again the best Arizona and California has…
After a period of time where his college recruitment began to slow down, his college recruitment has now picked up a great deal again as of late, as Corona Del Sol High School’s superstar 6-foot-2 rising senior guard Alex Barcello is coming off an excellent summer performance for himself. After recently receiving offers from Butler, Baylor, Georgia Tech and Tulane University, now two more schools are in hot pursuit of Barcello as Indiana and Michigan have both offered scholarships to Barcello. Barcello advised me in Las Vegas this summer that both schools were on him hard and that he is…
Pima Junior College talented 6-foot-7 rising sophomore forward Kwintin Williams is the top returing junior college prospect in Arizona’s ACCAC junior college conference. After a strong freshman season for Pima head coach Brian Peabody, Williams is prepared to have a big sophomore campaign. After a summer where he raised many eyebrows with his play, Williams recently received a nice honor when his play earned him a Top 20 All-Star performance in this year’s JUCO All-American Showcase event in Las Vegas, Nevada during the NCAA recruiting period. There were more than 100 different college coaches in attendance for this year’s event,…
After spending a season in the division-I ranks at North Carolina A&T, former Empire High School 2015 graduate, 6-foot-8, 220-pound transfer forward Deion James recently decided to end his career at the program and transfer schools. After mulling over many options for the fall, James recently decided to sign a national letter of intent with Pima Junior College and head coach Brian Peabody. James played sparingly at North Carolina A&T last season, but will look to pick up his career this fall at Pima, where he will look to rank among the top overall prospects in the ACCAC conference next…