The 5th Annual Fiesta Bowl Junior College Shootout took place Saturday on the campus of Mesa Community College with numerous college coaches in attendance to catch some of the top junior college prospects and teams in action. There are two Arizona junior college teams in participation for this exciting annual event, and both schools would advance to the tournament’s semi-finals on Saturday. First, Central Arizona JC (11-2) led by new head coach Tremaine Aaron would face top-rated Midland Junior College (TX), led by head coach Jordan Dreiling. The game would feature Dreiling matching up with his old program, as Dreiling…
Author: Anthony Ray
On Saturday at this year’s McClintock Holiday Shootout, it was an exciting day of basketball action as numerous teams competed for the right to advance in the tournament. Winners of the evening games would move on to the tournament semi-finals, while other teams would look to win their games after first round losses. While many of the state’s best teams are playing in the Visit Mesa Basketball Challenge, it is always exciting to watch the annual McClintock event, as a result of bracket play and the right to crown a tournament champion. On Saturday in the winner bracket of games,…
The era of Marvin Bagley in the state of Arizona is now in full swing, as the amazing superstar freshman prospect has now officially made his presence felt on the Arizona basketball community. The 6-foot-10 freshman post would lead his 3-time defending state champion Corona Del Sol Aztecs to a nice 84-70 win over Philadelphia’s Imhotep Charter on opening day of this year’s Visit Mesa Basketball Challenge at Mesa Mountain View High School. Corona Del Sol (9-0) is as talented a high school team as the state has ever seen already, led by the play of Bagley, star 6-foot-2 sophomore…
Perry High School (9-1) won last year’s McClintock Holiday Shootout, as then freshman star guard Markus Howard would also be selected as the 2013 Tournament Most Valuable Player. Returning this season as a sophomore, the 5-foot-11, 170-pound top performer will look to lead his Perry team to back-to-back tournament championships this season at the event. On Friday afternoon, Markus Howard (Arizona State commit) would get off to a big start in the process of leading his team to another tournament title, after pumping in a game and tournament-high on day one – scoring 35 points on 13 for 21 shooting…
MESA, AZ – Once again playing about as tough a schedule as head coach Sam Ballard can find, the Mesa men’s basketball team has released its 2014-15 scheduled, highlighted by the annual Fiesta Bowl Junior College Shootout. The season will mark Mesa’s 50th in men’s basketball. The Fiesta Bowl tournament, which MCC won for the second time in four years last season, will again feature eight strong teams. The event, which runs from Dec. 27-29, is generally considered to be the top regular-season NJCAA tournament in the country. New for 2014-15 will be Ranger (Texas) and Midland (Texas). They will join Monroe (NY), Salt…
The 8th Annual Visit Mesa.com Basketball Challenge is set to begin on Friday, December 26th and will be again hosted by Mesa Mountain View High School. This annual event has become the best collection of high school basketball teams in the state annual in a showcase format – comprised of some of the top teams in the state. Over a five-day span, tournament organizers will feature some exciting match-ups with the action beginning on Friday afternoon and concluding on Wednesday (12/31) afternoon just in time for the New Year to take place late Wednesday evening. Here is this year’s tournament…
Merry Christmas to everyone in the Arizona basketball community from our staff here at Arizona Preps.com! Thank you to so many in the state of Arizona that have supported our website me over the past 15 years (since 1999). Thanks to your support and may everyone enjoy this wonderful day with their families. My Arizona Preps staff has worked very hard as well over the years. I am very grateful to have each of you on my team, while I continue to work day and night to promote and evaluate Arizona’s best basketball talent. Merry Christmas to all! Anthony Ray…
While we have not reported it since things took place two weeks ago at Sunnyslope High School, still trying to collect information on what occurred, Sunnyslope High School’s gifted 6-foot-3 senior guard prospect Sammy Barnes-Thompkins has now landed at Planet Athlete Academy in Phoenix. Barnes-Thompkins will finish out his final senior season of high school at the program after being dismissed from the basketball program at Sunnyslope. While the details of what took place at Sunnyslope are still unknown, and while I don’t care to go into detail about the matter on this website anyway, the bottom line is the…
Parker High School has produced some good basketball talent over the years in boys basketball, and now they have one of the top girl’s prospects in the state. Still an unsigned member of Arizona’s 2015 class, Parker High School’s 5-foot-10 senior forward Sederia Carter is having a terrific senior season thus far – pouring in tremendous numbers for her team and making a strong case to be recruited at the division-I level this spring. Carter has led her Parker HS team to a 6-4 overall record this season, while averaging a team-high 18 points, 12 rebounds and 5.5 steals per/game…
While it has been an interesting road for Mountain Pointe High School 2014 graduate Chris Davis, he will now look to pick up his career and also look to develop on and off the basketball court at a top-rated junior college basketball program in Dodge City, Kansas. Davis has signed with Dodge City Junior College – one of the top junior college basketball programs in the country over the past 20 years. It has been a change of plans for Davis, as it was thought that Davis would spend a year as a post-graduate – competing all season for a…