The scholarship offers seem to just keep pouring in for St. Mary’s High School’s 6-foot-10 sophomore post prospect KJ Hymes, and at a rate very rarely seen in the state of Arizona and by such a young prospect. Hymes has had a whirlwind of a fall recruiting period – posting scholarship offers from some of the top basketball programs in America. This weekend, the University of Washington followed suit – offering a scholarship to the 6-foot-10 sophomore post talent. After a good summer performance, Hymes has peaked the interest of numerous college programs as of late – blowing him up with…
Author: Anthony Ray
After a recent MVP performance at the Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, Casa Grande High School’s 6-foot-4, 185-pound senior guard Gresyn Rogers has seen his college recruitment begin to take shape quickly. This week, Rogers received a visit to his high school from an assistant coach from a Conference USA program. UTEP assistant coach Bob Cantu, one of the best recruiters in college basketball, has made a living out of finding and landing untapped basketball talent. Rogers caught the attention of Cantu, who traveled to Casa Grande, Arizona, to watch Rogers work out with his high school coach – Gino Crump. …
The Arizona Preps Fall Showcase recently took place on the campus of Glendale Community College, and this year’s Showcase was as exciting as ever with many top performances from numerous prospects in the event. This year’s event also included some younger prospects that showed very well in the event – prospects that we would like to feature as some of the top young performers to watch for in the future. Two young performers that I was impressed with in this year’s event were a middle school prospect and another prospect that was middle school aged – freshman guard Ari Jones of Desert…
The last time we featured a story about Pinnacle High School’s rising young talent, 6-foot-7 sophomore forward prospect Patrick Kelly, this young man looked much different. Now a year and a half later and Kelly looks to have developed nicely into a serious college prospect. In our recent Arizona Preps Fall Showcase event, Kelly emerged as one of the top young prospects in the event. Kelly has grown a great deal since we last saw him, as he now possesses a much stronger physical frame with broad shoulders, excellent length and superb athleticism for his age. While he should only…
McClintock High School’s gifted 5-foot-11 senior point guard Amiri Chukwuemeka is now off the recruiting board. After missing the entire summer evaluation period with an injury, Amiri elected to show loyalty to a college program that had shown loyalty to him – giving a verbal commitment to a strong division-II program. Amiri is among the elite overall guard prospects in the state’s 2016 class, but he was still very much a sleeper prospect this fall, since college coaches had not seen much of him due to the injury. As a result, he would give a verbal commitment this week to…
After a dominant performance for himself in his team’s recent loss to Hillcrest Prep Academy, South Mountain Junior College’s talented and tough 6-foot-9, 225-pound sophomore post Connor MacDougall had looked as though he was prepared to see his college recruitment begin to take new heights. But instead, much like his recruiting experience in high school, MacDougall would decide to pull the trigger with a college program just as fast as his college recruitment would begin to take shape. The decision would come down to relationships, as MacDougall would elect to give a verbal commit to the University of New Mexico…
The 2015-2016 junior college season in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) will begin later this month with each of the teams in the conference facing a challenging out-of-conference schedule and then facing each other during the conference schedule. This season will be a very good one as each team in the conference seems to have gotten better. There looks to be no true dominant team in the conference this season. Instead there looks to be a lot of parity with many prospects in the conference for smaller college programs and low to mid-major division-I programs to evaluate. Here…
After a strong performance in last weekend’s Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, where he was one of the top overall performers in the event, 6-foot-7 ultra-athletic forward Seth Mason announced that he has decided to reclassify grades – moving from the 2016 class to the 2017 junior class. As a result, Mason will now become one of the more sought after recruiting targets in the group. Mason also advised our staff that he has re-opened his college recruitment as well – de-committing from New Mexico Highlands University. Head coach Craig Snow previously extended an offer to Mason as a junior prospect, and…
While many of the state’s top basketball prospects were participating in last weekend’s Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, Gilbert High School’s sharp-shooting and athletic 6-foot-7 senior wing Chris Bowling was handling some recruiting business up north. While on an official recruiting visit to Northern Arizona University’s campus last weekend, Bowling would reel in a scholarship offer from NAU head coach Jack Murphy and his staff. The offer from Northern Arizona gives Bowling something to seriously think about now. While Bowling has still yet to garner as much division-I interest as expected, he has also received division-I offers thus far from Idaho…
The Arizona Power club program continues to turn out division-I players each year – helping develop and promote their players to college programs across the country. Highland High School’s 6-foot-8, 225-pound senior post Tim Fuller is coming off a strong showing this spring and summer, and also a strong junior season last year. As a result of Fuller’s recent performances, he received numerous division-I scholarship offers. Fuller generated scholarship offers from levels as high as the West Coast Conference, as Fuller received offers from such schools as Idaho, Portland State, San Francisco and Weber State. In the end, after taking numerous visits, Fuller decided to…