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 has began to pick up numerous scholarship offers as of late. After recently receiving offers from Butler, Georgia Tech and Tulane University, today Barcello picked up another offer from Baylor University. Barcello is already among the highest recruited 2017 guards in the country, possessing a large number of offers already from the University of Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Creighton, DePaul,…
Author: Anthony Ray
The new Indi Hoops Regional Rankings have been released and the state of Arizona is very well represented. The new rankings list the top club programs in the West for the 17U, 16U and 15U levels. The Powerhouse Hoops program is in their first year of operation, but this program has made major headway fast – quickly becoming one of the hottest club programs in the West. The program’s 17U team had an excellent spring – finishing runner-up for the tournament championship in Vegas in the spring, and receiving several division-I player commitments as a result. The program’s 16U team…
Salpointe Catholic 6-foot-5 superb rising sophomore wing prospect Majok Deng has quickly developed this spring into one of the elite 2019 prospects in the country. As a result of Deng’s performance this spring, many college coaches, scouts and media are quickly taking strong notice of him as a big-time talent for the future. Last week, Deng received an ultimate honor from ESPN when he was selected among the top 5 players regionally in the class – a #4 overall ranking in the ESPN 100, and an amazing honor for an Arizona prospect. Deng has yet to receive any high major…
The Under Armour Elite 100, organized by West Coast scout Ryan Silver, will be held July 8th to July 10th, 2016, during the NCAA viewing period (NCAA Certified) @ Pomona-Pitzer College. This is a camp for individual top-rated prospects in the West. A number of Arizona’s top-rated prospects from the 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 classes will be in attendance. Here is the event information: 2016 Elite 100 Camp Information Last years camp featured every #1 player in every class. We are expecting 50-100 top 100 players. PRELIMINARY ROSTERS WILL BE RELEASED THIS FRIDAY June 24th The Arizona Preps’ staff will…
In case you missed it, former Arcadia High School 2012 graduate Larry Lewis has made his future college decision – electing to sign with a rising Big-West program that reached the NCAA Tournament last season. After a big sophomore season at Odessa Junior College in Texas, where he was selected as an All-Conference selection in one of the nation’s top junior college conferences, Lewis has decided to sign a national letter of intent with the University of Hawaii. Lewis becomes Hawaii’s sixth prospect for the class of 2016-17. In his only season at Odessa in 2015-16, Lewis averaged 11.1 points,…
The state of Arizona is not normally known for having young top-rated post talent, but 6-foot-9 rising sophomore post Emmanuel Kabasele Tshimanga is the exception – recently moving to the state of Arizona. The large and young developing post prospect has emerged in the state of Arizona and will play for a smaller high school program located in south Phoenix. Tshimanga is an excellent prospect for the state immediately, as he is among the biggest post prospects in the state, and has many years left still to develop as a player. A native of the East Coast, Tshimanaga works out…
The last time we saw 6-foot-4, 185-pound rising junior guard prospect Jaylin Fleming in the state of Arizona, he was a mere 7th grader and stood just barely 5-foot-7 inches in heigth. Just four years later, Fleming has grown immensely – adding 9 inches and close to 100 pounds of size, an unreal situation that has Fleming regarded as one of the top guard prospects in America’s 2018 class. As a mere 7th grader and a top-rated national middle school prospect, Fleming, a native of Chicago, Illinois, had previously traveled to the state of Arizona to attend the Arizona Preps…
One of the top guard prospects in Arizona’s 2017 class is Greenway High School’s 6-foot-3, 165-pound junior point guard Scotty Shaver. Shaver has worked hard to become one of the state’s top guard prospects. Shaver has been around the game all of his life – a feature that benefits him nicely as he is a gym rat. Shaver loves the game of basketball and works very hard on his game to progress as a player. Last high school season, Shaver led the Greenway team in scoring and was the team’s best three-point shooter and also playmaker. Shaver also takes pride…
In very surprising fashion, Corona Del Sol High School’s superb 6-foot-1, 180-pound rising senior guard Saben Lee has ended his college recruitment before the start to the NCAA July Evaluation period began. Lee was one of the hottest guard prospects in the West, after a tremendous performance this spring. On Monday Lee pulled the trigger with a top-rated program in the SEC Conference. After an excellent unofficial recruiting visit this weekend, Lee decided to give a verbal commitment to Vanderbilt University and new head coach Bryce Drew and his staff – a tremendous get for the new staff. Lee is…
Fresh off his team’s championship performance in this year’s ASU Team Camp, Desert Vista High School’s skilled 6-foot-5 rising senior wing prospect Noah Baumann had some unfinished recruiting business to take care. After recently receiving a huge Mountain West offer for himself, the skilled 2017 prospect has given a verbal commitment. Immediately following this year’s ASU Team Camp, Baumann and his family decided to accept a big scholarship offer from San Jose University and their basketball staff, before the NCAA July evaluation period would begin – a tremendous honor for a prospect that missed much of last high school season…