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Lotto StudAfter reaching the top spot in the RivalsHigh 100 in January, the Mouth of Wilson (Va.) Oak Hill Academy basketball team went into a tailspin.
The team lost three games in three weeks and dropped to the mid-20s.
The losses, however, were not the low point for the team. That came last week, when Arizona-bound forward Sidiki Johnson and five-star guard Ben McLemore were dismissed from the team. They no longer are students at the school.
McLemore will now be looking for a new high school before making his college choice. Johnson, a 6-foot-8 forward, is originally from the Bronx will transfer back to the city and is expected to play at New York (N.Y) Wadleigh, a public high school in the Bronx where Johnson would have been zoned to play had he not transferred to the private-school power.
The incident is not expected to affect his eligibility or his acceptance to Arizona.
His entrance to the Pac-12 school is of the highest priority to his new coach, Mike Crump.
"I don’t care why (he was dismissed)," Crump told NYCHoops.net
. " I just want to help the kid get into college."McLemore, a 6-foot-5 shooting guard and the No. 17 overall prospect by Rivals.com, has not announced plans for where he will finish high school. He is originally from St. Louis.
McLemore also has not chosen where he will play basketball in college. It is believed that he has narrowed his choices to Kansas and Missouri.
Like Johnson, the incident is not expected to affect his eligibility nor his acceptance to any of his potential suitors.
Oak Hill, currently No. 15, has not suffered in their absence. In its first game without the pair, it routed previously No. 11 Jacksonville (Fla.) Arlington Country Day, 103-76, behind 28 points from Duke-bound Quinn Cook.
The next RivalsHigh Top 100 will be released next week.
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