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Bagley, No. 1 in 2018 class, ineligible this year

The No. 1 high school sophomore in the country won't be playing basketball this season.

Marvin Bagley III, ranked No. 1 in the 2018 class, was ruled ineligible to compete this season 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 Nov. 12.

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.