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Call records link Arizona's Sean Miller, Creighton's Greg McDermott to Brian Bowen II's handler

During Brian Bowen II's recruitment in the late spring of 2017, his handler, Christian Dawkins, made dozens of telephone calls to various assistant college basketball coaches courting the player -- one of the last available five-star prospects.

In the final weeks before Bowen II's father agreed to accept $100,000 from Adidas to ensure that his son signed with the University of Louisville, Dawkins also made and received calls with phone numbers associated with at least two Division I head coaches -- Arizona's Sean Miller and Creighton's Greg McDermott.

An Outside the Lines analysis of Dawkins' cellphone records from May 3, 2017, to July 2, 2017, show there were at least 13 phone calls involving a cell number belonging to Miller and at least nine calls with McDermott's phone number.