Link: https://arizonavarsity.n.rivals.com/news/2018-basketball-prospect-rankings-top-40

Alex Barcello #2 ?! Might need to drug test you. Wow

Saturday
9:00 LA Purple Ghosts 17- LA Elite 17 Black
9:30 LA Elite Red 17- I Hoop 17
10:00 Supreme Court 15- LA Elite Black 15
10:30 LA Elite 16 Black-Team Eleate 16
11:00 CA Supreme 16 Black-EWE 16 UAA
12:00 Supreme Court 17-Superior Athletes 17 Black
1:00 Up & Coming 17-Camarillo Academy 17
1:30 SDA 15 Elite-Branch West Gold 16
2:00 Powerhouse Hoops Red 17-Pro Skills 17
3:00 LM Sky Blue Select 17-NOC 17 White
3:30 EWE Rising Stars Silver 15-Chaos 15
4:00 AZ Power Factory 16-EWE 16 Black
4:30 SDA 16 Elite-Prodigy 16
5:00 EWE 17 Elite-Fastbreak 17 Blue
5:30 EWE 16 Silver-Bayview Road Warriors
6:00 AZ Power Factory 16-Fastbreak 16 Blue
6:30 CAA Assault 16-EWE 16 Black
7:00 AZ Power Factory 17-Big Ballers VXT
Sunday
8:30 EWE 17 HA-Bayview Road Warriors 17
9:30 CA Supreme 16 Red-Team Eleate 16
10:10 EWE 15 HA-IEBP Silver 15
10:30 AZ Power Factory 16-Gamepoint 15 Elite
11:30 AZ Power Factory 17-CA Supreme 17 EYBL
12:30 AZ Power 17 Black-Gamepoint 17
1:30 Gamepoint 17 Select-Fastbreak Seniors Black
2:00 LA Purple Ghosts 17-Cooper International 17
2:30 SDA 17 Elite-CA Supreme 17 Red
3:30 Double Pump 17-Powerhouse Hoops 17 Red (PHH)

AIA Legislative Council approves transfer policy change
March 4, 2016 by Les Willsey, AZPreps365

The climate for a transfer rule change early Friday morning was not positive as the AIA's Legislative Council convened.

It changed drasticallly once a transfer rule amendement to an amendment was proposed and worked itself into an newly adopted rule come July 1.

By a vote of 32-7 the LC passed a transfer rule that would require students who transfer regardless of change of domiclie or not to sit out 50 percent of regular season games. Any subsequent transfer by that student would require sitting out a calendar year -- again regardless of change of domicle. Transfers, if both the sending and receiving schools agree, can be appealed.

The amendment offered by Mesa district athletic director Dr. Steve Hogen pushed the original transfer change from applying not just to varsity level, but the sub levels. It gained more appeal after about a 10-minute caucas among LC members.

The policy adopted underwent two amendements before coming to a vote. The hope is it serves to relieve a heavy workload on administrators and slow and knowingly won't eliminate athletically-motivated transfers.

"The time AD's have had to spend to validate and investigate has been substantial," La Joya athletic director Derek Fahleson, a former and recent AIA executive board member, said. "The onus will now be on the parent to appeal. Domicile is no longer an issue. The parent has to prove what the appeal or hardship reason is."

Main Event is this upcoming weekend and is always the top local event of the year for AAU basketball.
190 teams will be participating this year-which is insane.

All the top teams in state are in including the Bagley crew-Phoenix Pfamily 17U.
Not sure if all of them are coming. Which I believe has
'18 6'10" F MB3-Sierra Canyon
'20 6'4" SG Marcus Bagley-Sierra Canyon
'17 6'8" PF Cody Riley-Sierra Canyon
'17 6'0" PG Remy Martin-Sierra Canyon
'17 6'6" W Randy Bronner-Elite One Prep
'17 6'3" SG Darion Spottsville-Shadow Mtn
'17 5'11" PG Holland Woods-Apollo

I'm sure some others--this is what I was told
Sierra Canyon has other nice juniors as well

The Nova PG never needed to look at the trailer and their center even mopped the spot where he would set the pick.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/s...on&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

He is the glue to the Ducks program. Super props to an incredible season - so far!

Here is an awesome article that pretty much sums it up.

http://registerguard.com/rg/sports/...-a-calming-voice-to-help-uo-comeback.html.csp

With the AZ Finest MixTapes ppl and Inspire Courts I'm trying to add live plays into my articles.
I'm honestly not super tech savvy but slowly figuring it out.
I had a Bibby play and just now loaded a Kingdom Artis play.
Seems more FUN lol

We are going to start doing our player rankings
1st off will be FINAL rankings for the 2016 class. 50 players
May be someone new on top---HMMMM

Then next week will throw out 2017's-40 players
2018's-30 players
and 2019's-maybe 20 players

Link: https://arizonavarsity.n.rivals.com/news/abca-senior-all-star-game-lineups-announced

I went to many games and along the way saw 24 diff FR teams.
I wanted to look back and rank which programs are set up for success over the next years with the 2019 class.
Other teams may be better but I didn't see the actual freshman team play. I only will rank 25 diff teams I saw.

We have been doing this the past few years or so. Very fun! One of my favorite things to do--yes I'm sick. Anyway its open to all people. You have to pick 15 games out of the 16 games--for coaches who can't pick there own HS team!

Picks are due Tuesday at 3:00 PM for every week. There will be no Monday games so people can have time to pick for the next week,

Let me know if you are in by making your picks!
I made my picks--if you want to cheat off me thats fine

Here is the first week. Its almost all tourneys plus 1 regular season game.

With the new AIA rule--I figured we must have a thread of player movement.
Some believe it will be less-I think it will be more.
Hopefully I'm wrong.
If you hear any player transferring--please post in here so we (really me) can keep track of him.
Thanks!

Phoenix College versus South Mountain CC

I don't know if the guy who wants to ban the spread offense has been watching, but Mesa is in the state championship game after using the spread throughout the tournament. Most notably, they opened the game versus Basha in it. It takes guts to do that, but is smart because you begin right away to play on the other team's mind about it, plus you send a message that you will be in charge of the tempo, plus you see how the other guys intend to play it. I was rooting for Coach Grothaus because we are close friends and worked so closely together for several years, but I understand and respect what Coach Burcar was doing, as I'm sure Coach Grothaus did. Mesa continued to go in and out of the spread the entire game, keeping a grip on the tempo the entire time. When you do that effectively, you sometimes cause the other team to feel more pressure to catch up quicker which may cause them to make unnecessary turnovers or take rushed shots. Each possession is magnified in importance. It is a strategy that definitely has a place in the game of basketball. Fans and parents who don't like it are usually on the losing end of it. I'm sure Mesa's fans and parents are quite happy today.

The date is set for Saturday, March 19th at Mesa Community College. More info is soon to come.

There will be 2 games for girls and 2 for boys.

So last night I get a call from this guy asking me to coach in the upcoming senior all star event. He then proceeds to tell me he will be coaching the opposing team and will win.

Pure trash and I accepted the invite. See you on the 19th DUTCH!

National Rankings: David Grace at #7. Pasternak at #8. Stubblefield (Ducks) at #9. Bland (Trojans) at #11. Also Randy Bennett got COY (St. Marys) of the WCC!

http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/ncbrecruiting/on-the-trail/insider/post?id=15109

Mesa -4
Shadow Mountain -12

Props to SCA, doo can coach...
Props to YC, they are always strong...
Props to San Carlos, must have been a doozie of a final...

What is your Super Upset Special of the week, and why?

No home games for the high seeds in any round - some teams tipoff this morning at 9 a.m.

Ridiculous.

...but what happened at Chaparral with top players getting kicked off the team?

I was originally going to the St. Mary's game but since they will be facing M Ridge (57 minutes away from my house)--I will be going somewhere else.
I haven't been at a game in 2 weeks. I've been really sick--so I'm trying to stay local!
All 4 games in the poll are solid.
I haven't seen Hamilton this year and Coach Ernst is a stud like always.
BC and Basha are obviously talented teams.
DR is always fun to watch with Timmy and Mesa works well together.
Pinnacle has some good young players and KVH is a treat at Perry

Anybody notice that Foothills beat Saguaro (and Queen Creek) without Nehls?

Diaz from Nogales is probably the best unknown player in the state: 18.7 points and 11.9 rebounds (333) in 28 games. He also has 82 steals and 80 blocks. He is super-active defensively from what I'm being told down south.

Gregg,

Love the All State team article posted. Reading down the list it still blows my mind that there are so many more teams in DII then D1.

That being said, I'm curious in your mind, if the two rosters showed up at a court this afternoon which team would win?

Does the D1 team have someone who could stop Lightfoot inside?

Allen & Harry vs. Thomas and Rhymes on the wing?

Barcello & Lee vs. Bibby & Woods?