Marvin Bagley is in danger of losing his seat as the top-ranked recruit in the class of 2018. ESPN's Jeff Borzello is reporting that Bagley has been ruled ineligible to play until January of 2017 by the Southern Section of the California Interscholastic Federation.
Bagley enrolled at Sierra Canyon School (California) earlier this month after leaving Hillcrest Hoops prep academy in Arizona on November 12th. The CIF's eligibility requirements state that "a student may not be eligible to participate ... if there is evidence the move was athletically motivated or the student enrolled in that school in whole or in part for athletic reasons."
The director of communications for the CIF Southern Section, Thom Simmons, said that the transfer was athletically motivated and so Bagley has been ruled ineligible until January 4th of 2017.
The 6'10" big man told ESPN that Kentucky, Duke, Kansas and Arizona were the schools coming at him the hardest. All four coaches of those schools saw him play over the summer and Bagley even took an unofficial visit to Duke. The big man hails from Phoenix, Arizona so you have to expect Sean Miller and the Arizona Wildcats are making their presence felt around him whenever possible.
