[video id="DGWS-zJSU3Q" type="youtube"] Rolando Rhymes sat out the 2012 season after transferring from Phoenix St. Mary's to Scottsdale Desert Mountain High School. Rolando came into the Spring of 2012 as one of Arizona's Top Soph guards on his past reputation. In addition though he showed that he used the time off to bulk up physically as well as develop a much better outside jump shot. Along with an impro ...

The Best Buy Mile High Classic is the latest in a long line of National Tournament Championships for the  D1 Ambassadors.  Over the years D1 has snagged 4 Houston Kingwood Classic Championships, 4 Great American Shootouts, 2 National AAU Final Fours, Las Vegas Live, Atlantic Slam etc etc. The Texas D1 Ambassadors-Team Morse squad brought home another title beating last week's Best Buy Spring Classic Champio ...

  Random Thoughts The Spring of 2012 was another "banner" year for NCAA Division 1 coaching changes.  To this point 40 jobs have changed hands with a few more to come as there are still vacancies at Grambling, Southern Miss, Brown and Virginia Tech. Things only get better for the D1 Nation as many of the new hires are old friends of mine.  These are guys we've placed kids with in the past at other scho ...

The D1 Nation invades Colorado this coming weekend in several ways.  We'll have our D1 Ambassadors teams on hand from Texas, New Mexico and Oregon competing in what promises to be some great competition at the Best Buy Mile High Classic. Teams from Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming will be on hand. The D1 Nation has now come out of the gate with a Colorado Prep Report.  Our site currently i ...

The Oregon D1 Ambassadors were at the Bogfoot Hoops Las Vegas Grand Opening this past weekend.  In a peculiar set up with 5 teams in a pool, yet only two pool games Oregon D1 was 2-0, yet made the Gold Bracket (as opposed to Platinum) based on plus minus from uncommon opponents.  Miffed, they proceeded to run through the bracket, winning the Championship and going 5-0.  Along the way they beat the Las Vegas ...

In only it's second year, San Antonio Brennan piled up the wins and a couple of playoff victories too on the backs of two juniors.  2013 PG 5'10" Johnny Azzinaro and 2013 W 6'5" George King.  Under the direction of Coach Tommy Hines the two are really flourishing. Now in the short time playing for the Texas D1 Ambassadors-Ivany both are closer to their dream of playing college basketball. Last week,  Big Sk ...

Oregon D1 Nation is heading to Bellevue, WA The Oregon D1 Ambassadors 17U, 16U, and 15U will be competing in the Northwest Premier Spring Showcase (http://www.premierhoops.net/tournaments.html) at Bellevue Community College.  This looks to be great tournament to start off the first sanctioned period in the spring.  This tournament always attracts all of the top Northwest AAU programs and should be a great o ...

Oregon D1 Ambassadors Unsigned Seniors are headed to Las Vegas this weekend to play in the Bigfoot Hoops Las Vegas Grand Opening to see if they can open up few more doors with colleges. They will open up the tournament this Friday 6:20 PM vs the Las Vegas Vipers at the Tarkanian Basketball Academy. Roster: All athletes are from the 2012 class Austin May 5'11 G Cleveland HS (OR) Jimmy Garnder 6'0 G Glencoe H ...

The D1 Nation was on the move this past weekend with 17U teams getting work in around the country in preparation for the upcoming NCAA LIVE EVALUATION PERIOD in the last two weekends of April. The Mississippi D1 Ambassadors travelled to the Memphis Magic Easter Invitational (Memphis, TN), four Texas D1 Ambassadors headed to the Bigfoot Hoops Houston Easter Classic (Houston, TX) and three Danny Granger D1 Am ...

The D1 Nation rolled into New Orleans on Wednesday evening about 10 pm and then walked the two blocks over to Bourbon Street.  No, not to party I'm getting too old for that.  The reason I come to the Final Four every year is not even to watch the games.  It's to network and to spread the word about the many college prospects who are part of the D1 Nation and to build on relationships with old college coachi ...