Head Coach LeVelle Moton, a North Carolina Central grad, is a former high school coach with plenty of recruiting ties in the Raleigh-Durham area.The tornado never did touch down, despite the threats of a visit causing one heck of a windstorm. And now that John Wall has moved on, LeVelle Moton can get down to the business of building a basketball program.
Wall, the nation's most-coveted recruit this spring, told a North Carolina newspaper in late April that he was going to visit North Carolina Central to see what a historically black university had to offer. Wall never visited the campus, but for a brief moment the Eagles were caught in the whirlwind that is big-time recruiting, a pretty heady experience for a school still trying to secure itself a spot in a Division I conference. "I couldn't believe the magnitude of it," said Moton, who has known Wall, a North Carolina native, since he was a kid competing at Moton's basketball camps. "It was every day. It made Rome is Burning. It was crazy."
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