We continue our new Summer Player Rankings with our next release – the 2014 class summer player rankings for centers. This post position is also absolutely loaded with talented prospects, and has numerous high-major division-I prospects at the position. The center position is the top-rated position for the 2014 class, as several prospects at the position are high-major division-I prospects – a rare fact among Arizona post prospects historically. Leading the way for this summer’s rankings at the position is Mesa Mountain View’s 6-foot-10, 225-pound rising junior post Payton Dastrup. Dastrup is a sheer force in the state among post players, and, after a very…
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We continue our new Summer Player Rankings with our next release – the 2014 class summer player rankings for post players – beginning with the power forwards. This post position is solid with talented prospects and has several division-I prospects at the position. Leading the way for this summer’s rankings at the position is Westwind Prep Academy’s 6-foot-9 rising junior post Connor McDougall. MacDougall recently advised us that he has decided to transfer schools and attend Westwind Prep Academy this fall. MacDougall has developed quickly since the high school season, and is coming off an excellent spring performance for himself – now clearly ranked…
We continue our new Summer Player Rankings with our next release – the 2014 class summer player rankings for small forwards. This position is absolutely loaded with talented prospects, and has numerous division-I prospects at the position. This is among the most talented positions of prospects for the 2014 class, as the majority of prospects at the position are possible divison-I prospects. Leading the way for this summer’s rankings at the position is Westwind Prep Academy’s 6-foot-7 rising junior forward Zylan Cheatham. Cheatham recently advised us that he has decided to transfer schools and attend Westwind Prep Academy this fall. Cheatham is among the top…
We continue our new Summer Player Rankings with our next release – the 2014 class summer player rankings for shooting guards. This position is also fairly loaded with some talented prospects, and has numerous division-I prospects at the position. Leading the way for this summer’s rankings at the position is Pinnacle High School’s 6-foot-4 rising junior guard Dorian Pickens. Pickens is among the top prospects in the country at his position after a strong spring performance on the club circuit. As a result of his spring performance, Pickens is now regarded among the top 50 players in the country in the 2014 class…
The two top prospects in Arizona’s 2013 class of girl’s prospects have made their college decisions, as twin sisters, Dominique and Danielle Williams, will head different directions for their collegiate futures. While it had been rumored that both St. Mary’s High School 5-foot-9 rising senior girls prospects would soon make their decisions, it was thought that both would end up at the same college program. Not so, as the twin duo will split up for college. Monday evening, the pair of twins advised me that they both decided on high-major division-I programs. The decisions came on Sunday when the dynamic duo decided…
Another prospect from Arizona’s 2013 class of girls prospects is off the recruiting board. After a terrific junior season where she led her Flowing Wells High School basketball program to a strong 27-4 record on the season, 6-foot-2 rising senior post Lyndsay Leikem has given a verbal commitment to Ole Miss. Leikem’s club coach, St. Mary’s HS head coach and also head coach of the Arizona Warriors, Curtis Ekmark, advised me that Leikem is the first commitment in the 2013 class by Ole Miss. Leikem played for Ekmark at St. Mary’s High School during her freshman and sophomore years before transferring to Flowing…
St. Mary’s High School head coach Curtis Ekmark has changed the basketball landscape for girls basketball in the state of Arizona in a big way. After posting a perfect 30-0 record during the 2011-2012 high school basketball season, winning this year’s prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions, winning the Division-I state championship for a second year in a row and, ultimately, winning a national championship with the St. Mary’s Knights, Ekmark has raised the bar for the level of basketball played in the state of Arizona. If that wasn’t already enough, Ekmark also coaches a club basketball program known as the Arizona Warriors – one…
We continue our new Summer Player Rankings with our next release – the 2014 class summer player rankings for point guards. This position is loaded with some talented prospects, and has as many division-I prospects at the position as any other positions in the 2014 class. Leading the way for this summer’s rankings at the position is 2012 Arizona Preps Player of the Year, Corona Del Sol HS 6-foot-2 junior point guard prospect Casey Benson. Benson is coming off an excellent sophomore season where he led his Aztecs to a terrific 32-1 season, and a Division-I State Championship. Benson is among the…
While we always talk about the top talents in Arizona basketball, one of the things that I enjoy most is discovering prospects in the state that have the potential to become serious players for the college level. Arizona’s 2013 class is definitely not a loaded class, like that of the 2014 class. Instead the class is filled with many good prospects for smaller college programs, which is the case for much of the state of Arizona’s basketball prospects. Another player in the class that has shown good promise for the collegiate level is new Desert Vista High School transfer, 6-foot-3, 175-pound rising senior…
With our summer rankings set to be released next week for the 2014 class before the start to the summer competition, one player that should benefit in the rankings for shooting guard prospects is Glendale High School’s 6-foot-3, 170-pound rising junior guard Lyrik Shreiner. Shreiner emerged on the Arizona basketball recruiting scene last spring and summer after his freshman season at Glendale HS – displaying very good athleticism and a high motor on the basketball floor. This season as a sophomore for Glendale HS head coach Scott Stafford, Shreiner was a major factor for his Cardinals team – averaging 14.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and…