How sweet it is, after #10 seed Liberty High School became the lowest seed to ever win a state championship by the AIA, after a nice 69-63 victory over Sandra Day O’Connor High School. Liberty Head Coach Mark Wood and his staff are to be commended on the program they have built in the Northwest Valley, and this season continued to prove Coach Mark Wood’s value and coaching ability, as he led a team this season that had numerous ups and downs, but won it all in the end. Liberty (19-12) hung around all season, and, when it counted, put…
Author: Anthony Ray
The stage was set for an exciting contest for this year’s 5A State Championship game between the two top teams in the division, #1 seed Ironwood High School and #2 seed Casteel High School. Both programs have had excellent high school seasons this year, although Ironwood came into the game as the favorite, after posting an impressive 26-3 overall record on the season. Highly successful veteran Head Coach Jordan Augustine and his experienced staff have been here and won it before, so confidence on the Ironwood side of things was riding high, while Casteel (23-6) was looking to win their…
The Open Division State Championship game is now set after two exciting semi-final games on Wednesday evening, and the two final teams make a lot of sense. While numerous teams competed hard this season to get to this point, our state’s top overall ranked team, Millennium High School, will now face the two-time defending state champions, Perry High School, in the Open Division state final. Millennium utilized a huge third quarter performance to blow out Notre Dame Prep, 65-38, before Perry would get a huge performance from 6-foot-8 superstar junior Koa Peat, to defeat Basha High School in the rubber-match,…
The Open Division State Playoffs continue this evening at Chaparral High School with big semi-finals action back-to-back, as our #1 ranked team in the state, Millennium High School will face #2 seed Notre Dame Prep, and #1 seed and two-time defending state champions Perry High School will face #4 seed Basha High School. With two exciting semi-final match-ups in one location on the evening, it will make for some exciting basketball action. Here is a preview of both games that will determine the state final for the Open Division this weekend at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Perry High School vs Basha High School Semi-Final #1 seed Perry High School (22-6) are our…
The Open Division State Playoffs continue this evening at Chaparral High School with big semi-finals action back-to-back, as our #1 ranked team in the state, Millennium High School will face #2 seed Notre Dame Prep, and #1 seed and two-time defending state champions Perry High School will face #4 seed Basha High School. With two exciting semi-final match-ups in one location on the evening, it will make for some exciting basketball action. Here is a preview of both games that will determine the state final for the Open Division this weekend at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Millennium High School vs Notre…
The PAC-12 Conference will be changed forever next year, as different programs in the conference will move to different conferences next season. This weekend, two programs currently in the conference have extended offers to Eduprize Prep’s gifted 6-foot-4, 195-pound junior guard prospect AJ Thomas. Thomas is coming off another excellent high school season for himself, as he led Eduprize Prep (32-1) to this year’s CAA Open Division State Championship. Now college programs are setting their sights on Thomas, as he reels in two more offers for himself – his two biggest offers to date. With the NCAA Spring Evaluation period…
San Tan Charter (29-3) finished off another impressive season on Saturday, winning their last (18) games on the season, and defeating a tough Rancho Solano Prep (24-6) team in the 2A State Championship game on Saturday, 69-54, at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. 5-foot-8, 150-pound freshman stud guard Peyton Lubash was terrific all season for San Tan Charter, and came up big down the stretch for San Tan in their state title run, setting this program up for a bright future, as this young team will return many of it’s top talent going forward, led by the heroics of Lubash from the…
The 14th Annual ARIZONA Spring Showcase 🏀 is set for Sunday, March 3rd and will be held at Skyline Prep High School for invited high school boys basketball players in grades 8-12. Scouts and media are expected to attend, as well as NAIA & Junior College coaches. For more information, please go to www.areacodesbasketball.net Arizona Preps will be in attendance for this event to bring you our top overall individual performers from the event.
Friday was an amazing day of basketball action around the state of Arizona for all basketball divisions in the state, as each Division saw action on the day or evening – making for some electric basketball action around the state. No division in the state though was more exciting than (4) different quarterfinal games that were being played, which would decide the semi-finals for this year’s Open Division State Playoffs. Notre Dame Prep (25-4) punched their ticket for the Open Division Final Four on Friday evening in fine fashion, as they defeated a very talented and hot St. Mary’s High…
Sunnyslope High School (20-7) fell to our #1 ranked team in the state on Friday evening, as they would lose at home to Millennium, 56-50, in front of a sold out crowd in attendance. While the season and Sunnyslope’s hopes for winning an Open Division state title this season diminished on Friday evening in front of their home crowd, the future is exceedingly bright for the program, as the Vikings have loads of serious young Division-I talent for the future. One of these elite young prospects is 6-foot-10 freshman post Darius Wabbington. While Wabbington is very young and has a…