Great team camp and tournament located in Sandy, UT this past week from June 27-July 1. All the big schools in SLC play in it. Tues-Wed is high school teams only. Thus-Sat is high schools and club teams combined in a pool play and bracket play tourney format. Lots of different divisions to play in. 327 teams from 4th grade through Varsity level there for the tournament. Over 100 teams for the team camp portion earlier in the week. Valley Christian varsity went 7-1 in their division. JV went 7-2 and frosh went 7-2. Lots of fun and a great atmosphere. 32 courts in 1 building.

BIBSI at Sunnyslope--I'll see 11 teams.

Friday June 23rd

12 MAIN Liberty vs Chaparral

1 MAIN Chavez vs Catalina Foothills

2 AUX Liberty vs Queen Creek

3 MAIN Tri-City vs Chavez

4 MAIN Mesquite vs Central

5 AUX Tempe vs Volcano Vista



Then run over to ASU to WATCH



ASU HS Team Camp

Weatherup Training Facility (521 S. Rural Road Tempe)
7 Desert Vista vs Burges (TX)

8 Tock vs Boulder Creek




ASU HS Team Camp

Sat June 24th

10 WFA CGM Prep vs Basha

11 WFA Buena vs Tesoro (CA)

12 WFA #1 Desert Vista vs Gilbert and WFA #2 Burges (TX) vs Notre Dame Prep

1 REC #1 MTV JV vs Alchesay

2 REC #2 Mountain Pointe vs Albuquerque (NM)

3 REC #3 Playoffs B4 vs F4

4 Playoffs

5 Playoffs

6 Playoffs

7 Playoffs

8 Playoffs


Sun June 25th

10 Gold Semi Finals-2 courts

11 Bronze (Small school) Chip

12 Gold (Small school) Chip


Other team I want to see:

Williams Field

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In Episode 32 of The Chuck Constantino Show, presented by ArizonaVarsity.com, Lucas Ramirez, a boy's basketball coach and teacher at Horizon High School, sits down with Chuck. Lucas and Chuck talk about what he's been up to, his earliest hoop memories, who and what made him want to become a basketball coach, the kind of coach he aspires to be, the summer working with the Horizon squad, what he'd change in High School and AAU basketball, the 2017 NBA Finals. Chuck starts a new segment with Lucas, in properly rated, overrated or underrated and finishes the interview with a series of rapid fire questions.

Happy Fathers Day to all the Dads out there doing it all!
Much respect from the AV staff!

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In Episode 31 of The Chuck Constantino Show, presented by ArizonaVarsity.com, Jackson Ruai sits down for a quick interview. The audio may sound different this week as we were recording after lunch. During the interview, Chuck and Jackson talk about his recent trip to Canada, his summer. Amphitheater High School hoops struggles last season, only play four games his sophomore year, what to expect from Amphi this season, when and how he started playing basketball, his ongoing recruitment as its picked up and finish the interview with some rapid fire questions.

They are looking for 1 more school.
An out of town school literally just pulled out and they are searching for just 1 HS.
I'm guessing you can get a good deal this late lol

It's this Saturday---their games were supposed to be 12, 3 and 6

I'm heading over there on Saturday to check out the finals.

18 varsity teams and I'll see 12 of them on that final day.

Here are the teams:

Pool A
Coconino
Ironwood
PV
Walden Grove

Pool B
Desert Mtn
Flagstaff
Rancho Solano
Pusch Ridge

Pool C
Scottsdale Prep
Liberty
ND Prep
Beaumont (CA)
Shadow Ridge

Pool D
Phoenix Country Day
Trivium Prep
ND Prep 2
Leading Edge Academy
Winslow

Ill see 3 out 4 teams in Pool A and B
Ill see 3 out of 5 teams in Pool C and D

I like this event since it's not the typical Bigger schools that I see often-
Always looking for under the radar players.

The 1st game on Saturday is 9:00 AM and the Final is at 7:00 PM.

https://arizonavarsity.rivals.com/news/acbl-week-1-recap

Week 1 recap

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In Episode 30 of The Chuck Constantino Show, presented by ArizonaVarsity.com, Pima Community College assistant basketball coach Jason Apodace joins the podcast. Apodaca is also the head coach of Just Hoops Prep. Coach Apodaca talks about balancing his two roles and what he's actively doing in the next few weeks, the successful season at Pima, what they look for in a recruit, how to convey to the student athletes what they have to do in order to go on to the next level and continuing their basketball career. Jason and Chuck also discuss Pima's heavy recruitment of local players in Southern Arizona, who is poised for a breakout upcoming season, what Just Hoops Prep is, how they separate themselves from the recent popup prep schools and more before the segment ends with a series of rapid fire questions.

* The Podcast can be found on iTunes, podbean.com and other places you can listen to and download podcasts.

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In Episode 29 of The Chuck Constantino Show, presented by ArizonaVarsity.com, Arizona Christian University assistant men's basketball coach and assistant athletic director Matt Harris joined the podcast to talk about a variety of topics including: what Coach Harris' offseason schedule looks like, the positions he holds with ACU, the growth of the university and program, the challenges of establishing a culture at a college program, high school players needing to break the mindset of Division I or bust, the difficulty of recruiting in an area littered with dozens of other schools and unviersities, the next step for ACU basketball and finish the interview with a series of rapid fire questions.

* The Podcast can be found on iTunes, podbean.com and other places you can listen to and download podcasts.

..... 4 divisions.. 17 ELITE, 17 INVITATIONAL, 16 ELITE & 15 ELITE

Games at Central HS--17 Elite from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM on Saturday then 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM on Sun.

Game at Copper Canyon HS--17 Invitational from 11:00 AM-8:00 PM on Sat then 8:00 AM-2:00 PM on Sun.

16U Elite is at mainly at Desert Edge HS and Copper Canyon HS--Final is at Central HS 12:00 PM Sun.

15U Elite all at Desert Edge HS.

TOCC Basketball would love to have your high school program be part of the 3rd Annual Jegos Summer Basketball Tournaments. We know that with budgets for athletics being cut, we take pride in being able to offer you quality games for a low price. This year’s tournament will be open to high school boy’s varsity, boy's JV and girl’s varsity teams. All teams will be guaranteed 4 games. The cost is $175 per team for a guarantee of 4 games.


Session 1: June 2-4 at Cholla High School (2001 W. Star Pass Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85713)

Session 2: June 23-25 at Catalina High School (3645 E Pima St, Tucson, AZ 85716)

We also have a hotel offering a rate of $69/night that includes breakfast for out of town teams.

Contact Michael Steward to register:
(520) 370-6343 or msteward@tocc.edu

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In Episode 28 of the Chuck Constantino Show, presented by ArizonaVarsity.com, I spoke with Mark Schumaker, the newly appointed head coach at Desert Mountain High School. Topics include what went in Coach Schumaker's decision to move on as head coach at Coronado High School, his involvement at Coronado, his many roles at the school, what his week has been like, what foundation he wants to install at Desert Mountain, his Tucson and Ironwood Ridge days and more. We conclude the interview with a series of rapid fire questions.

https://arizonavarsity.rivals.com/news/so-cal-hoop-review-az-recap

55 kids from AZ

So I'm going to CA this coming weekend for the Gerry Frietas So-Cal Hoop Review--(April 21-23)
AZ Teams attending:
PHH teams
Power 17 Black
Arizona Arsenal
AZ Power North teams
Alvin Gentry Elite
Tres Hoops and
Team Zona

The next weekend I'll be at Ryan Silvers West Coast Elite Spring Classic--(April 28-30) plus an unsigned senior/Juco live period event in (29-30)-80 of the top unsigned kids--should be crazy.
AZ Teams attending:
Factory
PHH
AZ Power North
Tres Hoops
AZ Classics

Link for unsigned senior event for parents--I think they have 7 spots left I was told.
http://www.westcoastelitebasketball.com/unsigned

Here we go--another season is upon us for club ball.
Like it or love it--its here to stay lol

Post rosters if you know of any to help me out on my spring/summer journey
Thanks!

AREACODES EASTER CLASSIC

April 14th-15th, 2017
Saturday April 15th

Desert Edge Main Gym Desert Edge Aux Gym
Main ct Aux gym
NMBC Bommers Elite (NM) El Paso Titans (TX) Yotes BYC Elite (NM)
NMBC Bommers Select (NM) LV Punishers (NV) Latinos Select (TX) Power Black 17
Yotes Alpha Males Power North Platinum AZ Hype 2017
NMBC Bommers Select (NM) West Texas Elite (TX) Latinos Select (TX) NMBC Boomers Elite (NM)
Yotes Power Black 17 El Paso Heat (TX) BYC Elite (NM)
Las Vegas Punushers (NV) El Paso Titans (TX) West Texas Elite (TX) Power North Platinum
AZ Hype 2017 BYC Elite (NM) El Paso Heat (TX) Team Zona
Swagger AZ Hype 2018 Team M'Phasis Power North Blue 17
Power Red Rebels 17 Las Vegas Punishers (NV) AZ Dream Team
Team Zona Power North Blue 17 Team M'Phasis AZ Hype 2018
Power Red AZ Dream Team Rebels 17 Swagger

http://www.tourneymachine.com/Publi...IDTournament=h201703151742155433f0839dd12324c

Here is the pools for the MAIN EVENT

Always the biggest AAU event of year

200+ teams
24th-26th at Avondale ASC mostly

Hello all!

I have the current tally for the weekly $20 gift card winers in the Pick 'em challenge. Number of wins are in parenthesis.

@aznative: 3
@Azsowhat: 2
@tooeasyj: 1
Occular Dissonance: 1
@ishoot3s: 1
@TazzDevil: 1
@EGray4: 1

I believe we're also still waiting for week 2 to be finalized to see who the winner will be.

Link to week 2 Pick'em thread: https://arizonavarsity.forums.rival...-week-2-results-updated-12-4.5333/#post-24088

Make sure you private message me your address so I can send the cards out once the contest ends.