CBSSports.com is still rolling out results from its poll of 100 coaches and today's topic is dirty recruiting. College basketball's fifth favorite writing quartet asked coaches,
"Which player is perceived to have the dirtiest recruitment in the last 10 years?"
Drumroll, please...
Shabazz Muhammad: 15 percent
Anthony Davis: 13 percent
John Wall: 7 percent
Kyle Anderson: 7 percent
O.J. Mayo: 7 percent
Derrick Rose: 6 percent
Renardo Sidney: 6 percent
Terrence Jones: 3 percent
Tobias Harris: 3 percent
Chris Obekpa: 3 percent
Kentucky had three of the top 10 responses, including two of the top three, with John Calipari adding another in Derrick Rose. Shabazz Muhammad, who is currently under investigation, finds himself at the top of the list with 15-percent of the vote.
One coach who voted for Davis said, "I've never seen a recruitment get shut down as quickly as that one got shut down. I don't know how they did it. But it was a strong play."
Another coach said, "Baylor hired John Wall's AAU coach and that still wasn't enough to get that deal done. That recruitment was on another level. And remember, Roy Williams basically stopped recruiting him. Best player in the country is from North Carolina, and North Carolina didn't really want anything to do with it. What does that tell you?"
Haters gonna hate.
They wish they had 8.
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