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UCF's probe is checking into the recruitment of highly ranked basketball recruits Michael Chandler and Kevin Ware, and football recruit DeMarcus Smith.
Chandler, from Indianapolis, Ind., was the No. 4-ranked center in the country and most-highly rated player UCF had ever signed when he inked national letter of intent last month to play for the Knights. He had previously committed to Louisville and Xavier.
Ware, from Conyers, Ga., was released from a national letter of intent he signed with Tennessee after coach Bruce Pearl was fired. He subsequently signed a grant-in-aid with UCF last month. But he recently backed out of his commitment to the Knights.
The same is true for Smith, a quarterback from Louisville, Ky. He originally verbally committed to Louisville, but wound up signing a national letter with the Knights. He had second thoughts in March and asked UCF coach George O'Leary for a release, but the coached denied it.
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