This week was a very busy week for recruiting around the country, and the state of Arizona was busy with a large number of Division-I college coaches traveling to the Valley to take a hard look at some of the state’s top overall prospects. Many programs around the state, prep and high school, received their share of college attention this week, but none more than AZ Compass Prep, which is absolutely loaded once again this prep season. With many new faces on this year’s AZ Compass Prep roster, 6-foot-6, 190-pound junior wing Marcus Allen was very impressive this week and…
Author: Anthony Ray
One of the elite overall prospects in the state of Arizona resides at basketball powerhouse Hillcrest Prep. Hillcrest’s 6-foot-3 junior point guard Adam Njie is a serious prospect that has been on the rise in his play and college recruitment over the past year, and he continues to soar. After another strong spring and summer performance for himself, Njie is now receiving loads of Division-I interest, and is among the elite talents in the state – regardless of class. A native of Brooklyn, New York, where he has a great following, Njie began his playing career at Eduprize Prep and…
Arizona’s 2025 Class is loaded with talented prospects and is a very strong class overall. Recently, I discovered another very good looking young prospect in the class – Bradhsaw Mountain HIgh School’s 6-foot-9 sophomore post Jayden Blasczyk. While Blasczyk has only been playing the game for a couple years, he looks to be a prospect that has nice upside and potential for the future. The Bradshaw Mountain program is on the rise, as they have a program filled with talent. While they lost a lot to graduation, they will also return a lot as well from last year’s team, led…
It has been some time since Bella Vista Prep’s 6-foot-6 senior guard Jason Fontenet has received an offer, but only as a result of him suffering an injury during his junior season. Fontenet is now back fully healthy, and has even grown a couple inches since we last saw him compete. He has also gotten much stronger and has added some serious size and muscle to his once thin frame. Fontenet is now prepared to have a big senior season, as he looks to regain his form and move to new heights in his play and college recruitment. On the…
With college coaches venturing to the state this week to take a hard look at college prospects primarily from the 2023 and 2024 classes, one prospect that college coaches need to take a hard look at is Perry High School’s athletically gifted 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior guard Ben Egbo. While Egbo has not received anywhere near the acclaim of his two high school teammates, Cody Williams and Koa Peat, Egbo is now coming into his own as a player and a college prospect, and will look to have a big senior season – looking to help Perry win a back-to-back 6A…
The annual exciting ACCAC JUCO Jamboree is scheduled to take place on Saturday, October 1st, and will be held at Chandler-Gilbert Junior College. Our Arizona Preps’ staff will be in attendance for this year’s event to bring you complete coverage of the event, and also our top overall performers from the day. Here is the schedule for this year’s JUCO Jamboree . . .
This week will see many college coaches visit our state, as the NCAA recruiting window opened up for Division-I college coaches to begin hitting the road on Friday, September 9th. As a result, many college coaches will venture to the state between now and November 6th. The Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) will have practices this week for college coaches to be able to attend and evaluate the top juco talent in Arizona.
In January of 2020, the CDC confirmed the first US Coronavirus case in America. As the pandemic grew quickly in the US, the world changed quickly with it. As the Coronavirus spread throughout the world everything ultimately changed, including college basketball recruiting around the country for all college programs. As a result of the COVID pandemic and the inability of college coaches to get out and see college prospects for some time, as a result, recruiting became very challenging and almost non existent for most college prospects, as the country and the NCAA looked to figure out how to manage…
WIth college coaches across the country focusing on numerous prospects in the 2023 Class, across the country, one player that has yet to find a college suitor is Dream City Christian Prep’s gifted and athletic 6-foot-7 senior guard/wing Mathiang Maker. With no current offers to his credit, Maker has blossomed as a player and has been putting his opposition on notice as a result. Maker’s dominant performance on Tuesday evening in the opening night of the AZ Compass Prep Fall League proved just how much college programs are currently missing on this young man. Maker’s performance against an overmatched Skyline…
The Area Codes Labor Day Invitational took place over the weekend at North Canyon and Sunnyslope High School, and included numerous youth boys and girls basketball teams of different age groups. I was on hand to take part in Saturday’s action for the 17U Division, and was able to see many sleeper prospects in action on the day. Here are the top sleeper prospects that emerged on the day from the event . . . Top 2023 Prospects Michael DeHorney 6-8 SR PF AZ Compass Prep Black – 2023 Class DeHorney has grown physically since we last saw him. He…