It's that time of year again when upwards of 160 standout high school boys basketball teams head to Phoenix with hopes of impressing college scouts in attendance and getting an early jump on the winter season.
Section 7 is back for its 2025 boys basketball installment, and it will once again be loaded with many of the premier high school basketball programs on the West Coast. Games will take place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (June 20-22) at the Arizona Athletic Grounds in Mesa, which has capacity for 16 concurrent games in one facility. It marks a change in venue from State Farm Stadium in Glendale.
Most schools participating play among the upper high school ranks of California, such as St. John Bosco, Roosevelt (Eastvale), Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks), Archbishop Riordan, Harvard-Westlake, Sierra Canyon, Mater Dei, and De La Salle, or Arizona, like Perry, Millennium, O'Connor, Notre Dame Prep, Boulder Creek, and Sunnyslope. There'll also be several top-notch programs representing Utah, such as Davis, Orem, Timpview, Olympus, and Corner Canyon. Other states with big-name teams in attendance include Nevada (Bishop Gorman and Sierra Vista), Colorado (Rangeview), Oregon (Central Catholic and Tualatin), Washington (Rainier Beach and Richland), and New Mexico (Sandia and Volcano Vista). Zephyrhills Christian Academy of Florida is also attending.
There will be nine brackets – AIA, Cache AI, Huettner, Carolyn and Todd Delano, ASEC, ABCA, MiCamp Sports, Crest Insurance Group, OrthoArizona, and Dorsey & Whitney LLP – and many of them have nationally-ranked entrants. There is an option in the top left of the brackets section (second link below) to select which bracket to view.
- Full list of 2025 Section 7 boys basketball teams participating
- 2025 Section 7 boys basketball schedule and brackets
Section 7 takes place during the NCAA live viewing period, which means college scouts and coaches of all levels – including D-I – will be watching closely in person.