The Arizona Preps platform has been reporting on Arizona high school and junior college basketball since October of 1999, and has published more than 5,000 different stories about Arizona’s top student-athletes. Now the Arizona Preps’ platform has become just as big on social media, as our Arizona Preps website once was in the early 2000’s. This week our Arizona Preps Instagram https://www.instagram.com/arizonapreps/ page reached more than 10,000 different followers, which was an impressive accomplishment for our staff, as we have worked tirelessly over the past several years to improve our social media platform for Arizona and the regional basketball community.…
Author: Anthony Ray
The exciting 20th Annual Mesa Fear The Hop Tournament took place all week last week on the campus of Mesa High School and included (16) high school teams, with two teams from out of state competing over the week long event. Here are the selections for the All-Tournament Teams for the event, including my player evaluations for some of these top performers, including the Tournament Most Valuable Player – 6-foot-2 senior forward AJ Seumanu (Not in ranking order) . . . Mesa Fear The Hop Top Performers – Player Evaluations AJ Seumanu 6-2 SR SF/PF Mesa High School (Mesa, AZ)…
From our entire Arizona Preps’ staff, we would like to wish everyone in the Arizona basketball community a Happy Thanksgiving and also a Happy Holidays, as Christmas begins to approach. But first, we would like to thank all of our supporters – the high school and prep players, coaches, scouts, media and, of course, the many parents that make it all possible. Arizona Preps has been covering Arizona high school and junior college basketball since 1999! To all the high school, prep school and junior college coaches and players in the state, we would like to give thanks to all…
Junior college basketball in the ACCAC is off to an excellent start this season, and there have been some major surprises already early into the 2023-2024 junior college basketball season. Chandler-Gilbert Junior College is off to an excellent start on the season, as they currently sit in first place in the conference standings with an undefeated 7-0 record on the season, and a 2-0 record in conference play already, which includes a big 64-55 victory over top-rated Cochise College on Tuesday evening. Chandler-Gilbert Head Coach Steve Silsby has one of his best overall teams in years this junior college season,…
With the start to the 2023-2024 high school basketball season kicking off this week and weekend, the state’s biggest early season match-up included two of the state’s top teams that will compete for an Open Division State Championship this high school season – host St. Mary’s High School (0-1) and visiting Notre Dame Prep (1-0). With two of the top teams facing off in a season opener in Central Phoenix, the two teams would compete in front of a very nice crowd – both teams looking to make their claim for the new season. St. Mary’s and Notre Dame Prep…
With the exciting start to the 2023-2024 high school basketball season now officially underway, this high school season looks to be one of the best and most anticipated seasons in recent memory, as there are numerous high school programs that will be in strong consideration this season for competing for an Open Division State Championship. With Perry High School being so dominant the last two high school seasons, this season will be enjoyable as there are numerous programs that will compete hard for the prestigious Open Division state title. With so many different high school programs in the hunt this…
With many Arizona prospects signing National Letters of Intent this week with their respective college programs, we can add Millennium High School’s talented 6-foot-3, 180-pound senior guard Sabien Cain to the list of early signees. With some good offers on the table for himself, Cain made his college decision to sign with Cal-State Northridge University (CSUN), a member of the Big West Conference. Cain held offers from Arizona State, Long Island University and High Point, before ultimately making his college decision for Cal-State Northridge. CSUN Head Coach Andy Newman and his coaching staff recently took over the program in April…
AZ Compass Prep’s terrific 6-foot-5, 185-pound senior guard Vyctorius Miller is a tremendous talent and is regarded as a top-rated national prospect in America’s 2024 Class – ranking among the top 50 national prospects in the class. With the end to the NCAA Early Recruiting Period finishing up this week, on the final day of the period, Miller announced his big decision for his future college program – announcing that he would select University of Oregon and Head Coach Dana Altman and his coaching staff for his future college home. Miller’s decision to select the Oregon Ducks was made in…
Arizona’s 2025 Class of prospects is already loaded with some elite national prospects, and now you can include Dream City Christian Prep’s promising 6-foot-11 junior post Fawaz Ifaola. A native of Lagos, Nigeria, Ifaola came to Dream City Christian Prep via the state of New Jersey, and will immediately make a big national splash among the nation’s elite prospects in the class, as scouts and national media get to know him. This is a Top 30-level national prospect and he will soon make a big splash in our rankings for the 2025 Class, and also the national rankings for every…
Wednesday was the first official day of this year’s NCAA Early Signing Period, which will run from November 8 – 15th. While there are numerous committed prospects in Arizona’s 2024 Class that will officially sign their respective National Letters of Intent during this time period, often times, there are new commitments and signings that take place as well. Liberty High School’s 6-foot-8 senior forward Ring Nyeri has done just that, as Nyeri has decided to sign an NLOI with the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) and Head Coach Marvin Menzies. Menzies and his staff have done an amazing job recruiting…