The always exciting McClintock Holiday Shootout will take place again this year @ McClintock High School and will take place Tuesday, December 26th and run through Friday, December 29th – finishing out the 2023 year of exciting high school basketball. Each year, the tournament champion from this year’s event is a big deal, and often leads to a strong finish to the high school season. This year’s field of teams will be very competitive as always, as the event the event gets better each day, as teams progress and move on to the Tournament Final. Arizona Preps will in attendance throughout the week to bring you our top…
Author: Anthony Ray
The junior college season is beginning to take shape now as we enter the winter season, and now have some games under our belt. Arizona Western (11-3, 4-0) and Eastern Arizona (10-4, 4-0) are at the top of the conference standings for Division-I programs – both tied for first place in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC), as both programs are currently undefeated in conference play. Pima (8-0, 3-0) and Scottsdale JC (6-0, 2-0) both remain undefeated on the season and tied for first place among Division-II programs in the ACCAC. Gifted 6-foot-7 sophomore wing Raysean Seamster of Eastern…
One of the top overall prospects to come out of Northern Arizona over the past several years has been Prescott High School 2022 graduate Jason Parent. Parent posted impressive numbers throughout his high school career and became a household name in Northern Arizona. After spending a season at Northern Arizona University during his freshman season as a redshirt, and then attending Nebraska Wesleyan University (NE) this fall, Parent recently decided to return home from the D-3 program, and now has decided to enroll at Yavapai College, where he will pick up his career next season as a sophomore transfer next…
Desert Mountain High School (3-1) has had an excellent start to the new high school season. After a terrific weekend at the Hoop Hall West event, but also suffering their first loss of the season to Pinnacle High School, Desert Mountain is on the rise in Arizona and in the West. This talented group of performers has already proven that they are one of the clear favorites to compete for this year’s Open Division State Championship, although they lack depth on their bench. On Tuesday evening, the talented and young starting five for Desert Mountain played the majority of minutes…
Desert Mountain High School (2-1) had a very exciting weekend for themselves, as the team opened up their new season with this year’s exciting Hoop Hall West event at Chaparral High School. While playing and winning two exciting games in the Hoop Hall showcase event over the weekend, Desert Mountain would fall to Pinnacle High School on a last second shot, 98-97, in a super exciting regular season match-up. Desert Mountain would compete in three monster games in a row during the weekend, and would highlight their weekend with a huge 81-74 win over West Coast giant, Sierra Canyon High…
Former Adidas Grassroots Director of Basketball of Operations Chris Rivers has transitioned over the years, since operating one of the most powerful sports franchises in the sport of basketball. Rivers has served in numerous roles throughout his illustrious career and been very influential in helping shoe companies, such as Adidas and Reebok, develop and cultivate thousands of intimate relationships with today’s top performing basketball athletes and prospects. Since leaving Adidas several years ago, Rivers has found a new vision and focus for himself, in which he looks to create a much more impactful and positive approach to helping today’s student-athletes. Today, Rivers now…
On Friday at this year’s Hoop Hall West event at Scottsdale’s Chaparral High School, and after some exciting action on Thursday evening, our pre-season #1 team in the state overall, Perry High School and also another one of our top overall teams in the state, Basha High School, would both compete on the evening, but against top-rated out-of-state high school programs. Perry would face off with Archbishop Stepinac High School (NY), while Basha would match-up with Campbell Hall High School (CA). The Perry / Stepinac match-up would feature two of the nation’s elite talents, 6-foot-8 junior Koa Peat and 6-foot-4…
In the second exciting match-up of the evening on Thursday @ The Hoop Hall West event, two more of our elite teams in the state would face off in another exciting contest. Desert Mountain High School, our #4 ranked team in the state overall, would face off with Notre Dame Prep, our #5 overall team in the state overall. Desert Mountain was looking to debut their new high school season, while Notre Dame Prep had already knocked off St. Mary’s High School in their season debut, and on the road in fine fashion. Notre Dame Prep would be looking to…
The exciting Hoop Hall West event is in full action now, especially after Thursday night’s games, which included several really good match-ups on the evening to kickstart this year’s event in Arizona. While our staff has marveled this pre-season at the parity between the state’s top teams, this year’s Hoop Hall West waited no time bringing some of the state’s top teams together – matching them up for full head-to-head competition. These match-ups in this year’s event have done my job for me early in the season – proving just how good each program is, by matching them up with…
Last week was a coming-out-party of sorts for Prescott High School and their talented 2025 Class duo of juniors, 6-foot junior guard Uriah Tenette and 6-foot-11 junior post Zane Gaul, atleast for Prescott fans. Tenette and Gaul have come together in each game to lead Prescott to a 3-1 start to the high school season. Prescott is projected as one of our top programs in the state this high school season. and the early production and play of Tenette, combined with the strong support of Gaul, has Prescott as a strong contender to compete for a 4A State Title this…