The exciting, annual Hoop Hall West event is taking place at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona this week and weekend, and basketball scouts and media have traveled to the state of Arizona to catch a nice glimpse of all of the exciting action taking place. While the girls games kicked off the event on Wednesday, and the boys picked up on Thursday, Friday evening included several of the most anticipated games of the event, which included an exciting local rivalry match-up between St. Mary’s High School and Brophy Prep. Arizona Preps was on hand for all of the action…
Author: Anthony Ray
As we continue to look at some of the top prospects in Arizona’s 2025 Class, in preparation for our release of our new player rankings, another top-rated prospect that is beginning to come into his own is St. Mary’s High School’s talented 6-foot-7, 215-pound sophomore forward Caspian Jones. Jones is coming off a strong fall performance for himself and is looking to become one of the top overall prospects in the 2025 Class. Jones has developed as a player a great deal over the past two seasons, and is now looking to help his Knights have a strong season in…
Arizona’s 2025 Class of prospects is developing at a nice pace and is filled with some elite-level talent. Dream City Christian Prep is well known for producing elite-level talent, after posting two different NBA first-round picks last summer and projecting to post several more in the near future. The next big-time prospect in line for the program is 6-foot-9, 215-pound gifted sophomore forward Alejandro Aviles. A mere 2025 prospect, Aviles emerged this summer at Dream City, and is quickly making noise this prep season on The Grind Session. Aviles is a young but very high level talent, with excellent promise…
Arizona’s 2025 Class of prospects is absolutely loaded with gifted performers, and several of the top-rated prospects in the class have already received major national attention. One of the special talents in this class is Hillcrest Prep’s amazing 6-foot-11 sophomore post Jayden Quaintance. Quaintance is a tremendous talent with unique physical size, skill and agility. Unlike other members in the class, Quaintance has grown a great deal physically and early in the process, and has also developed a nice overall skillset for himself – making him a serious elite high-major Division-I prospect that should only continue to develop and, ultimately,…
With many college programs now taking aim at the top prospects in Arizona’s 2024 Class, one of the top prospects in the class is Brophy Prep’s 6-foot-3 junior guard Braeden Speed. Speed is a superb athletic talent among guard prospects in the state, and is on the rise in his play and college recruitment. After a very good sophomore season, Speed is now set to have a big junior season for himself and put himself into the conversation among the best guard prospects in the state. Speed is coming off a strong spring and summer performance with his club program…
A lot has changed quickly in the life of Hillcrest Prep’s 6-foot-2, 175-pound athletic junior guard prospect KJ Perry. After having a strong junior season for Gilbert High School and helping lead the program to a 5A State Championship Runner-up performance, Perry has since reclassified to the 2024 Class, and changed prep programs a couple times. After moving to PHH Prep first, Perry then decided to take his game to Hillcrest Prep not long after, where he is now flourishing alongside a loaded group of talented prospects. In fact, Perry has gone from a prospect with very little recruiting interest,…
There have been numerous exciting match-ups already early this high school season, and Friday evening’s contest, presented by Monarch Sports, between host Brophy Prep and Millennium High School, made for an exciting atmosphere and contest. This was be a nice early season measuring stick for Brophy Prep, while for Millennium High School, this was another early season opportunity to knock off another top-rated high school program. Millennium (8-1) has had a terrific season already, up to this point, as they have already defeated such top programs as Peoria, Sunrise Mountain and Mountain Pointe in fine fashion. Friday evening’s contest was…
On Wednesday evening, two Arizona junior college programs that are headed in two different directions faced off, as Mesa Junior College hosted Central Arizona Junior College. Mesa CC is off to an excellent start this junior college season, behind the leadership of new, first-year Head Coach Lester Neal, while Central Arizona JC will be looking for a new head coach soon, after releasing former Head Coach Tramaine Aaron of his coaching duties earlier in the day. Mesa JC (5-1, 1-1) would bounce back from a loss to South Mountain JC last week on their home floor, while Central Arizona JC…
Tuesday evening saw possibly the state’s top two AIA programs go at it in fine fashion, and early in the high school season – making for an excellent match-up for the state’s basketball enthusiasts to enjoy. This was a state playoff level match-up between #1 ranked Perry High School and a surging Liberty High School team, that is very game and prepared to make a state title run this season. Perry is the state’s top AIA program – coming off winning a 6A State Championship last season, and also winning the Welcome To The Jungle Gilbert Holiday Hoops Tournament last…
The Mesa Fear The Hop Tournament is exciting every year, and has become a nice tradition for pre-season basketball in the state, during the Thanksgiving week. With (16) of the state’s top high school programs featured last week during the event, a strong ALA Gilbert North program would win this year’s Tournament Championship, defeating a very talented Desert Mountain team in the event final, 76-73, led by the Tournament MVP, 6-foot senior guard Dylan Novak. Here are the All-Tournament selections from this year’s exciting Mesa Fear The Hop Tournament . . . Mesa Fear The Hop All-Tournament Team Mesa Fear…