Pima College (27-0, 15-0) has been truly amazing this season, and have turned in one of the best junior college seasons in the history of the NJCAA. Pima is currently ranked as the nation’s #2 overall team in the country for Division-II programs, and they do not look to be slowing down anytime soon. While it was widely recognized that Pima would be terrific this season, as good as I believed they would be, the program has more than exceeded expectations this season. Pima will look to win another ACCAC Division-II Conference Title this season, and has an excellent chance…
Author: Anthony Ray
When the 2024-2025 junior college basketball season began in the ACCAC this season, it was very clear that Pima College (27-0, 15-0) and Head Coach Brian Peabody would put the best team on the floor that I have seen in a long time. While Pima has had many strong teams under Peabody, and also won the ACCAC Division-II Conference Championship last season, this year’s team simply looked very different. The Aztecs have been truly amazing this season, and have turned in one of the best junior college seasons in the history of the NJCAA. Pima is currently ranked as the…
Mesa Community College 6-foot-4 sophomore guard Talbot Cummard has worked hard over the past two years to make himself into a very good four-year college prospect. After a nice career at Mesa High School, Cummard played his freshman season for Eastern Arizona College, before coming back home for his sophomore season and playing for hard-working head coach Lester Neal and his coaching staff. A member of the prestigious Cummard family, which has produced many top-rated players from the family over the years in the state of Arizona, Talbot Cummard is the latest member of the family to produce at a…
While it has always been just a matter of time before he received the honor, Perry High School’s superstar 6-foot-8 senior Koa Peat has now officially been named a member of the 2025 McDonald’s All-American team – another very impressive honor for the most dominant force that we have ever seen in Arizona basketball history. Peat is embarking on an amazing fourth-consecutive state championship in a row this high school season, something we have never seen in the state of Arizona in the state’s top division. It is one amazing thing to win four consecutive state championships, and it is…
Central High School (21-2) is absolutely on another level this high school season. The Bobcats are putting the finishing touches on a terrific year that looks as if it will end very favorably for Head Coach Darren Bustos and his coaching staff. Coach Bustos has consistently put together a nice program in the state’s 5A Division annually, as Central has been a very good program, but not like now. This season, after the welcomed additions of several transfers to their program and a new freshman star, the program has completely flourished and go to another level – now becoming one…
Brophy Prep (12-7) is one of the state’s top 6A programs again, and this year’s team will be very tough to beat down the stretch and n the Open Division State Playoffs. Brophy is well coached by Matt Hooten and his staff, and are talented and well experienced at every position on the floor. This year’s team has their best chance in years to win a 6A State Championship and/or an Open Division State Championship, as they will give every opponent all they can handle. The program received a nice shot in the arm this high school basketball season when…
One of the most athletic guard prospects in the state is on the rise, literally. Mesa High School’s gifted 6-foot sophomore guard Daijon Grayson is one of the most talented performers in Arizona’s 2027 Class, and has turned in a very good sophomore season for himself – a breakout season of sorts. Mesa High School (15-4) is having an excellent season thus far in the state’s top 6A Division, and Grayson has been a major reason for the success of the Mesa program this season. While small in size, this young and very bouncy guard prospect has serious college potential…
The 2024-2025 junior college basketball season has taken serious shape now in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC). Eastern Arizona (17-3, 7-2) recently lost back-to-back conference games to College of Southern Nevada and also Arizona Western, who is on fire currently in the season – winners of their last (7) games heading into Saturday (1/25). Eastern Arizona remains in first place in the conference standings among Division-I programs. Pima College (21-0, 9-0) is currently ranked as the #5 overall Division-II junior college program by the NJCAA. Pima has won an amazing (21) games in a row this season, and remains undefeated on…
The NCAA’s recent ruling on college eligibility for junior college (JUCO / NJCAA) athletes has shocked the national basketball community, and, as a result, this ruling will now further change college basketball recruiting a great deal across the country. Junior college basketball programs were once formidable in promoting the best juco prospects nationally to four-year colleges, but after the development and rise of prep programs across the country, four-year colleges turned to prep school prospects, and today the NCAA Transfer Portal. As a result of the new NCAA ruling, junior college programs will certainly become a much bigger factor in…
Bella Vista Prep has made a complete resurgence over the past two seasons under the focused and excellent leadership of long-time highly successful coach Matt Gordon (Director). The program merged with Canyon International Academy (CIA) this college season in tremendous fashion, and now the program is as good a prep program as there is in the country. Bella Vista’s 6-foot-10, 240-pound senior post Mouhamed Sylla is one of the top overall prospects in America’s 2025 Class, and he was being recruited heavily this season. Sylla has decided to pull the trigger, and has given a big verbal commitment to Georgia…