Preston Spradlin, then the coach of the Morehead State Eagles, went to scout an Adidas grassroots basketball tournament in Birmingham, Ala., in the spring of 2019. As usual, he arrived with his eyes wide open and head on a swivel.
“A lot of times guys from the big schools just get a list [of highly touted prospects] and go watch the players on that list,” Spradlin says. “At a place like Morehead, you go watch players who aren’t on a list. You’ve got to be zigging when everyone else is zagging.”
