It is that time of the year when top-rated prospects from the 2014 class will begin dropping off the recruiting list, as commitments should begin to pour in from one of the state’s top classes ever – possibly the best. With several prospects in the class already having given verbal pledges to college programs, you can now add Dobson High School’s 6-foot-4, 180-pound senior guard Ryan Richardson to that list. After a solid showing this spring and summer and a strong junior season last year, Richardson has ended his college recruitment – finding a college program that best suits him…
Author: Anthony Ray
The 2nd Annual NAU Lumberjack’s Basketball Coaches Clinic took place this weekend on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. The event was held over two days and was hosted by the NAU men’s basketball staff for coaches throughout the state of Arizona. While there were numerous coaches in attendance from throughout the state, there were also some coaches that made the trip from outside the state as well to hear instruction from some of the top coaches in the country. The field of coaches for this year’s event was impressive, as NAU head coach Jack Murphy and…
The state of Arizona is filled with sleeper prospects, since the state continues to go well under recruited by college programs. While many of the state’s elite prospects get deserved recruiting attention, and even at times too much attention, the majority of the state’s top sleeper prospects often go unnoticed by smaller college programs. With so many division-I programs now beginning to scour the state in search of top-rated division-I talent, still smaller college programs have yet to venture to the state on a consistent basis. A sleeper prospect, for those that do not know, is any prospect that has shown the…
One of the elite prospects in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) this up & coming junior college basketball season will be Glendale Junior College 6-foot-5 sophomore guard/forward Ronald March. A division-I transfer a year ago from Houston Baptist University, March has developed nicely over the past several years into a serious division-I talent. A 2011 high school graduate of one of my favorite high school programs in the state, Thunderbird High School, March was coached by terrific head coach Buddy Rake and his hard working basketball staff. March blossomed throughout his junior and senior seasons of high school – leading his Thunderbird team to…
The recruiting process is beginning to narrow down for Westwind Prep’s talented 6-foot-8 senior forward Zylan Cheatham. The ultra-athletic wing prospect narrowed down his list of schools early this week in prepeparation for making his college decision later this fall. Cheatham has indicated that he still plans to make his decision on a college this fall, after taking official recruiting visits and then making his college decision on his birthday, November 17th. The last 6 months have been very busy on the recruiting front for Cheatham, as he has received loads of college interest, with some schools recruiting him as a wing prospect and others recruiting him…
The month of July has been a complete whirlwind and life-changing experience for Sunnsylope High School’s 6-foot-10 senior post Michael Humphrey. Since leaving the annual Reebok Breakout Camp in Philly, Humphrey has seen his college recruitment soar with numerous high-major division-I offers. Humphrey earned more than 20 different division-I offers from high major college programs in the month of July. Humphrey would receive scholarship offers from such schools as UCLA, Arizona, Indiana,Texas, Cal, Georgetown, Oklahoma State, Iowa, Virginia, Georgia Tech, Miami, Nebraska, Washington State, Vanderbilt, Oregon, USC, Gonzaga, Tulsa, San Diego, San Diego State, Loyola Marymount, PENN, Utah State, Grand Canyon, Nevada, Northern Arizona University, Columbia and Weber State during the…
Arizona’s 2014 class of prospects has been billed as one of the top classes of prospects in state history, if not the best, and while some prospects in the class have not lived up to the billing, one prospect in the class continues to receive loads of high-major division-I interest. Mesa Mountain View High School’s talented 6-foot-10, 235-pound senior post Payton Dastrup is one of the elite post prospects in the country, and, as a result, has garnered significant recruiting interest from numerous high-major and elite-high major division-I programs across the country. While playing this spring and summer with the Cal…
With another exciting July evaluation period now coming to another close, there are a lot of things happening in the recruiting world. While Arizona’s 2015 class of prospects is still rounding into shape this club season, and after a nice spring and summer evaluation period, many of the top-rated prospects in the class have risen to the top of the discussion with strong performances. One 2015 prospect that took his game to another level this club season was Chaparral High School’s 6-foot-3 junior guard Kenzo Nudo. While playing on the club circuit for his club program, Arizona Power Black 16U, Nudo turned in several very strong performances for…
Las Vegas, Nevada is now the home of the majority of the nation’s club programs, as hundreds of club teams from around the country have ventured to Vegas to compete in the final evaluation period of the month. The month of July has been a very busy month for the nation’s top prospects, as players have competed at a high level in numerous events for three consecutive weeks. While it has been a tiresome experience for all parties involved – players, parents, club coaches and college coaches, the experience has also been very enjoyable. There is no other time of…
Cesar Chavez High School has consistently ranked among the elite high school programs in the state of Arizona since it’s development in 2004. Still a fairly new school in the valley, Chavez has posted consecutive winning seasons in each of their 9 seasons of existence in Arizona. Behind the leadership of their only high school head coach at the program, Gary Lee, the Champions have played like Champions each season – wining more than 20+ games in each season since the school’s development in South Phoenix. While Gary Lee is not often mentioned among the list of elite coaches in…