Coming out of Oak Hill Academy, Shelton Mitchell was ranked by Scout.com as the No. 75 overall player in the class of 2014.
The four-star prospect was also the No. 15 point guard in the country.
Mitchell visited Clemson three times, during his freshman year, again as a sophomore and once more as a junior at Cuthbertson High School in Waxhaw, North Carolina.
By January of 2013, Mitchell was committed to Wake Forest, but things changed just over a year later when Jeff Bzdelik was fired. After Mitchell was released from his letter-of-intent, he signed with Vanderbilt over Missouri, N.