FALL RIVER — Joson Sanon may soon be out shopping for a new wardrobe. One of the top prep school basketball players on the planet, the city resident has decided to take his extraordinary hoops talents from northern New England to the Arizona desert.

Sanon on Thursday verbally committed to attend the University of Arizona in Tucson on a basketball scholarship. The 6-foot-5 wing recently finished his third and final basketball season for Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont.

The former B.M.C. Durfee High School player is a junior at Vermont Academy, but said he will be graduating this summer and is re-classifying to 2024, a year being billed as exceptionally strong for D1 men's basketball prospects.

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