This year’s ACCAC JUCO Jamboree took place over the weekend at Phoenix College and looked a lot different than in year’s past. This exciting annual event has been the highlight of the beginning of the junior college season for Arizona junior college programs to showcase their teams to college coaches, while also gaining strong competition early in the season. This event has changed formats over the years, but nothing like what we saw take place this weekend, as the event was condensed by about almost (8) hours from what we saw in year’s past. While the Jamboree always featured each…
Author: Anthony Ray
With the start to the 2023-2024 junior college basketball season in the state of Arizona set to kick off this weekend in pre-season fashion with the exciting annual ACCAC JUCO Jamboree, there will be a large collection of new prospects in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference this season. With the majority of the top prospects in the conference moving on at the end of last season, there will be many different prospects this season looking to make a name for themselves in the juco ranks. The top returning prospect in the conference this season is definitely Eastern Arizona Junior…
The 2023 Arizona Community College Athletic Conference’s men’s basketball Juco Jamboree will be held this Saturday, October 7th, at Phoenix College with (9) different ACCAC programs being showcased in the all-day event. Each team will play in two games on the day, as there will be (2) different gyms in action and in succession throughout the day. Arizona Preps will be in attendance for all of the games and will bring you our top individual and team performers from the day’s action. Looking forward to this year’s exciting event to see, once again, who the top players and teams will…
In big news today, one of the elite prospects in Arizona’s 2024 Class is now officially off the recruiting board, after Dream City Christian Prep’s hard-working and developing 7-foot, 215-pound senior post Emmanuel Stephen has decided to end his college recruitment – giving a nice verbal pledge to the University of Arizona Wildcats. Stephen has worked very hard to become the player he has become today, and, after a big spring and summer for himself, he has now given the biggest commitment of his life to Head Coach Tommy Lloyd and his coaching staff. Stephen recently trimmed his recruiting list down to…
Let’s continue taking a look at the state’s top breakout performers for this up-and-coming high school season. Another player that I expect to have a big breakout season in the state for the 2023-2024 high school basketball season is St. Mary’s High School’s 6-foot-7 junior forward Caspian Jones. Jones is already well established as a top-rated prospect, as he possesses Division-I offers, but he has yet to have the season that he is capable of. Last season was impacted heavily by injuries for Jones, so this season will be a big one for him. Jones has worked very hard on…
Let’s continue taking a look at the state’s top breakout performers for this up-and-coming high school season. Another player that I expect to have a big breakout season in the state for the 2023-2024 high school basketball season is Perry High School’s sharp-shooting 6-foot-1 senior guard Barron Silsby. One of the elite shooters of the basketball in the state, Silsby is coming off a junior season where he emerged as one of the top performers for a Perry program that almost went undefeated and won it all. This season Silsby is set to help lead another very talented Perry team…
Let’s begin taking a look at the state’s top breakout performers for this up-and-coming high school season. One player that I expect to have a big breakout season in the state for the 2023-2024 high school basketball season is Perry High School’s talented 6-foot-5, 190-pound junior wing D’Andre Harrison. A terrific combo-forward prospect for Head Coach Sam Duane Jr. and his staff, Harrison is ready to breakout this high school season, after a very good performance last season as a sophomore starter for the state’s Open Division State Champions. Harrison is coming off an excellent spring and summer for himself,…
When I began scouting players in the state of Arizona in 1995, the state was almost void of any exposure opportunities for Arizona’s top talent, and there simply were not as many top-rated players to scout, although there were many good ones. I began covering Arizona’s top talent in an attempt to help establish and also improve the overall basketball culture in the state. Through the development of my scouting service, the Arizona Hoop Review, the Arizona Preps platform and also organizing and operating events, such as the Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, I worked to develop our basketball culture in…
The wait has ended for St. Mary’s High School’s talented 6-foot-2 senior guard Styles Phipps. After a recent official recruiting visit to hometown Grand Canyon University, the visit was enough to reel in a commitment from Phipps for the Antelopes and Head Coach Bryce Drew and his staff. Phipps announced his commitment on Monday afternoon on social media to GCU, as he will be staying home for college. Grand Canyon University has done an excellent job, since Bryce Drew and his staff took over, at landing some of Arizona’s top-rated local talent. GCU landed Noah Amenhauser from Estrella Foothills HS…
The exciting annual Pangos All-West Frosh Soph Camp took place this weekend, Saturday and Sunday @ McBride High School in Long Beach, CA. This event featured many of the top prospects in the West for the 2026 and 2027 classes. The event featured more than (200) individual prospects in this weekend’s camp, which was attended by many of the top regional and national basketball scouts and media in the business and organized by top-rated elite national scout Dinos Trigonis. There were numerous Arizona prospects in attendance, but prospects from two Arizona-based programs dominated the competition this weekend, as many young…