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Remember when the Kentucky Wildcats really wanted Zion Williamson?
Maybe it’s a good thing he didn’t land in Lexington after all.
As the college basketball corruption trial wraps up, Williamson has been brought up in relation to potential illegal recruiting tactics that the Kansas Jayhawks were involved in.
Code: "Hey, but between me and you, he asked about some stuff ... I know what he's asking for. He's asking for opportunities from an occupational perspective, he's asking for cash in the pocket and he's asking for housing for him and his family."
— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) October 16, 2018
Kurtis Townsend: "I've got to just try to work and figure out a way because if that's what it takes to get him here for 10 months, we're going to have to do it some way."
— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) October 16, 2018
Be sure to read the full thread from Wetzel.
Also, this isn’t the only shady thing Kansas did in the recruitment of Williamson, who ultimately ended up at Duke.
Considering this trial has already presented some unfavorable testimony for Kansas, this latest revelation isn’t going to help their cause.
This also is a bad news for Williamson, who probably is going to hear from the NCAA about this.
The irony of this is Coach K just publicly stated he doesn’t know anything about the illegal recruiting underworld in college basketball...
Wendell Carter's parents met w Christian Dawkins. Lance Thomas' jewelry. Cory Magette was in the Myron Piggie posse. Bagleys owned a Nike AAU team. But K doesn't know a thing about how the CBB underground economy works. https://t.co/atcG0vh3Yu
— Pat Forde (@YahooForde) October 16, 2018
Make no mistake about it: Zion Williamson will be one of the best players in college basketball if eligible, but with this latest revelation, there’s no longer a 100-percent guarantee that happens.
But it’s Duke, so it’s still in the 99.9-percent range, at least for Game 1 vs. Kentucky. I doubt anything happens to Williamson, but the evidence that Kansas is playing dirty continues to mount.
It’s hard to see anything drastic happening before the new season since it begins in three weeks, but Kansas is going to have a tough time sweeping all of this under the rug. Until they take serious action, it’s hard to see Bill Self getting into any real trouble, but his program is now firmly under the microscope, and there’s no telling if any more revelations could come out.
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