Sean Miller and the Arizona Wildcats basketball program continue to make headlines during the college basketball corruption trial. Brian Snyder, Arizona Republic
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — Perhaps no school has been more embroiled in the NCAA’s corruption scandal than Arizona since the FBI announced its bombshell investigation in September 2017.
Yet, few schools have enjoyed as much recruiting success in that time.
From February 2018 to May 2019 — a span in which ESPN reported Arizona head coach Sean Miller discussed paying Deandre Ayton $100,000 with Christian Dawkins, Arizona suspended and reinstated Miller, and testimony in federal court implicated Arizona in several bribing instances — the Wildcats landed five-star 2018 forward Brandon Williams, five-star 2019 point guard Nico Mannion, five-star 2019 wing Josh Green and four-star 2019 big man Zeke Nnaji, all while beating out the likes of North Carolina, Kansas and Kentucky.