After it looked as though he was headed to Grand Canyon University next fall, Florence High School’s 6-foot-10 senior post Jeremy Verhagen is now headed in a significantly different direction, as he signed a division-I scholarship on Monday afternoon. Verhagen generated a lot of division-I interest for himself during the April evaluation period. While playing with a very talented Team Power Black group, Verhagen boosted his exposure to college coaches this spring – enough to garner enough interest in himself to land a division-I deal. After careful consideration, Verhagen has signed a division-I scholarship with the University of Northern Colorado and…
Author: Anthony Ray
Arizona’s is still loaded with some top-rated unsigned basketball talent late in the year for college programs to take a hard look at. With so many of the state’s top prospects still unsigned, as a result of a lackluster state for college basketball recruitment, each of these prospects are looking to make college decicions this month. Here are many more of the state’s top unsigned senior prospects still available for college programs . . . TOP UNSIGNED SENIOR PROSPECTS IN ARIZONA (In No Particular Order) (Name Ht Pos School Evaluation) Andres Marquez 6-1 SR PG Nogales HS (Nogales, AZ) – Excellent scorer and shooter. Strong…
Arizona’s is still loaded with some top-rated unsigned basketball talent late in the year for college programs to take a hard look at. With so many of the state’s top prospects still unsigned, as a result of a lackluster state for college basketball recruitment, each of these prospects are looking to make college decicions this month. Here are some of the state’s top unsigned senior prospects still available for college programs . . . TOP UNSIGNED SENIOR PROSPECTS IN ARIZONA (In No Particular Order) (Name Ht Pos School Evaluation) Desmond Ross 6-2 SR PG Raymond Kellis HS (Glendale, AZ) – Combo-guard…
No one has been through more than former Brophy Prep High School 2011 graduate Sai Tummala. After a very diminished college recruitment as a senior in high school, Tummala’s athletic potential caught the eye of one of the nation’s top basketball programs – the University of Michigan. Tummala took his chances at playing in Ann Arbor, and decided to walk on to the storied basketball program, only to transfer schools less than a year later – heading the junior college route in an attempt to improve his college recruitment and for an opportunity at a much brighter future. On Thursday morning, the talented…
The Arizona Magic Pump N’ Run-2014’s, a team comprised of some of the state’s top 2014 prospects, has been on an absolute tear this spring season. After starting off the spring evaluation period with a tournament win at this year’s Southwest Showcase Main Event, the team continued their terrific play in this year’s Double Pump Hoop Fest in Los Angeles, CA – winning the big 17U championship in the event. This past weekend, the Arizona Magic PNR-2014’s would improve their club record in the spring to an amazing 12-1, and would finish in the semi-finals of last weekend’s Double Pump Spring Classic in…
The Team Power Basketball Academy is in their first year of operation, and they have become a major player in the club basketball business almost overnight. Sporting almost 20 different teams at different age groups, Team Power has started off the spring season with a bang, and this weekend the program saw it’s very talented Arizona Power Black 16U group fall to the Utah Pump N’ Run (UT) in the championship game of this year’s Double Pump Spring Classic in Las Vegas, Nevada. Also runner-up finishers of the 16 & Under Division in last weekend’s Double Pump Hoop Fest in Los Angeles, CA, the 16 & under group…
The recruitment of Independence High School’s 6-foot-7, 195-pound senior forward Jonathan Wilson has officially ended and will soon begin again, as Wilson has landed at a junior college program and will now look to improve his college recruitment in the future. In an attempt to reach his personal goal of playing division-I basketball, Wilson has decided to pass on several division-II scholarship offers for himself, and will instead head the junior college route in an attempt to earn a division-I scholarship in the future. Last week, after careful consideration, Wilson gave a verbal commitment to attend Williston State Junior College in North Dakota,…
Saguaro High School’s sharp-shooting 185-pound unsigned senior combo-guard Ryan Berg has become a very hot target among unsigned senior prospects in the state. The much improved and hard-to-guard guard prospect has flat out put on a shooting exhibition this spring, and, as a result, has seen his college recruitment begin to take off. Berg is as much improved a player as I have seen in recent years, as he went from simply a pure shooter of the basketball, to now being almost unguardable with the basketball in his hands. Berg’s quickness off the dribble, ball handling prowess, court vision and ability…
This last weekend kicked off the start of which looks to be a very talent laden West Coast club basketball season. While the Nike EYBL and Double Pump Hoop Fest opened up in Los Angeles, California, I happened to watch a majority of the top kids on the West Coast and beyond in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada at the Pangos Spring Spectacular hosted by Dino Trigonis and Bishop Gorman High School, and other locations. I was shocked at how high of a level these kids were playing at so early in the club season. Of the talented kids I personally watched, here are my…
Perry High School’s talented 5-foot-10 rising junior pure-point guard prospect Jordan Howard is a soaring talent that burst onto the high school basketball scene during his sophomore season. While Jordan and his family are very well-known in basketball circles around the state of Arizona, this version of the Howard family took his game to another level in his sophomore season. As a junior, Howard continued his terrific play and blew up within the state of Arizona – averaging an eye-popping 25.6 points per/game and being selected among the 2013 Arizona Preps All-Arizona Team and also as our runner-up for our Arizona Preps…