The always exciting McClintock Holiday Shootout will take place again this week @ McClintock High School and will take place Monday, December 26th and run through Thursday, December 29th – finishing out the 2022 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…
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It is that time of year for the annual 2022 Mesa Community College Holiday Tournament, which will feature a few of the nation’s top junior college programs again @ Mesa Junior College this week, beginning on Tuesday, December 27th and ending on Thursday, December 29th. This year’s event will feature 2021 defending Tournament Champions, Salt Lake City Junior College (UT) and previous Tournament Champion, South Plains Junior College (TX). Snow Junior College (UT), Seward County (KS), San Bernardino Junior College (CA), Mesa Junior College, Glendale Junior College and Central Arizona Junior College will round out the field of this year’s…
Mesa High School is off to a nice 9-1 start to the 2022-2023 high school basketball season. After dropping their very first game of the season to ALA Gilbert North (57-51) in the Mesa Fear The Hop Tournament, the team has reeled off 9-straight victories and is preparing to leave the state to take part in the State Farm Classic next week in Bloomington, Illinois. A major reason this season for the success of the team has been the emergence and development of 6-foot-7, 240-pound senior forward Freddie McCoo. A transfer to Mesa High School as a senior, McCoo has…
With the beginning of the high school and prep seasons now in full motion, and after a busy summer and fall, we have updated and now release our NEW Individual Player Rankings. We continue our new rankings for Arizona’s 2025 Sophomore Class of prospects. The 2025 Class is very loaded with many gifted prospects in this class. Top-rated prospects in the class helped themselves in our new rankings with strong performances this summer and fall, and through the early high school and prep seasons. Prospects emerged throughout the process and now are in the conversation for much higher college recruitment. Either way,…
The 15th Annual Visit Mesa Basketball Challenge will take place this week, December 19-22nd @ Mesa Mountain View High School and surrounding high schools in Mesa. The event will expand this year to (3) different sites with (3) brackets and involving (32) top-rated high school programs. Nineteen schools are from Arizona and (13) different programs will represent California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Utah, and Washington. Arizona Preps will be in attendance this week for the event to bring you our top performers. Here is a list of teams for this week’s exciting event . . . Visit Mesa Basketball Challenge…
As we get set to release our new Individual Player Rankings for the 2025 Class, another one of the top prospects in the class is Cesar Chavez High School’s 6-foot-3, 175-pound sophomore guard Lex Clontz. Clontz burst onto the Arizona varsity scene last season as a freshman and posted big scoring numbers in his season debut. This season, Clontz has returned under new leadership at Chavez, and has raised his numbers and is having another strong season for himself. Recently, Clontz also received his first scholarship offer – a nice mid-major Division-I offer for himself. Clontz is among the best…
Cactus High School’s 7-foot, 240-pound junior post Bradey Henige has become completely dominant in Arizona basketball – already putting together an amazing high school career. After two strong high school seasons already under his belt, Henige has completely gone to another level during his junior season – averaging 30+ points and 22+ rebounds per/game this high school season. Henige is coming off an amazing 50-point and 23 rebound performance in his program’s 77-61 win over Northwest Christian High School. As reported by Richard Obert of the Arizona Republic, Henige finished with a school record 50 points on 23 of 29…
Arizona’s 2025 Class of prospects is quickly developing and is loaded with top-notch talent for the future. Another prospect in the class that has emerged quickly in the process is Sandra Day O’Connor High School’s skilled 6-foot-8 sophomore forward Michael Simcoe. After a strong freshman campaign where he consistently put up strong numbers for his program, Simcoe is off to an excellent start in his sophomore season, and has become one of the top overall prospects in the class. Simcoe is another prospect that will make a nice introduction into our new 2025 Individual Player Rankings. Simcoe is simply different…
As we prepare to release our new individual player rankings for Arizona’s 2025 Class this week, there are numerous prospects in the class that will be making a splash in our new rankings. One prospect that has emerged a great deal and will be ranked among our top overall prospects in the class is American Leadership Academy (ALA) – Gilbert North’s 6-foot-1, 155-pound sophomore guard Dylan Novak (Pictured middle). Novak has raised many eyebrows in the state this high school season with his play – leading his high school program to an undefeated 10-0 record on the high school season,…
The annual Hoop Hall West event took place in our state last week and over the weekend, and featured some high-level teams from around the country, but included some of Arizona’s elite teams for the event. Arizona Preps was on hand all day every day of the event to watch each contest, for boys and girls, as we covered the event from top to bottom. Here are my top overall boy’s team performances and top individual performers through the week and weekend . . . Perry High School was the top overall performing Arizona high school team in the event,…