The Mesa High star point guard and the Tribune’s Player of the Year will be the only high schooler on Team USA as it travels to Europe tomorrow to begin preparations for the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championships.

It wasn’t a good start for the U19 Team USA men’s basketball squad in Lithuania on Sunday.

Mesa High point guard Jahii Carson is the only high schooler left among 13 players competing for 12 spots on the USA Men’s U19 World Championship team.

In his first time at a big arena for the 5A boys basketball playoffs, Mesa senior point guard Jahii Carson wasn't intimidated in the least.

In the first 29 minutes of game action between Mountain Pointe and Mesa on Saturday, there were scoring outbursts, emotional outbursts and everything in between.

For a university with the second-largest enrollment in the country, last Friday morning at Arizona State was surprisingly serene.

The Basha boys basketball team defeated Mesa 57-52 to advance to the Arizona Summer State High School Basketball Championships at Wells Fargo Arena on Thursday night.

Mesa point guard Jahii Carson, the top boys basketball prospect in the senior class, has verbally committed to Arizona State, Mesa coach Shane Burcar said.

ASU fab freshman Jahii Carson not ready to decide NBA future, instead focusing on rivalry game with UA.

Former Mesa point guard and Arizona State-commit Jahii Carson accepted an invitation from the USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Team Committee to attend the 2011 USA Basketball U19 World Championship Team training camp.

Jahii Carson knew 6.6 seconds was plenty of time to race down the length of the court.