If Washington does wind up landing McCullough, the main reasons would not come as a surprise.
“I’m closer with Coach Al than I am with any other coach,” McCullough told Eleven Warriors earlier this month. “He stays in contact with me a whole lot. ... They could’ve offered me a month before they actually offered me, but Coach Washington wanted to build a relationship with me, which is respectable.
“It was sometime in March (when I started talking with Washington). We were talking, it had to have been two or three weeks before I got the offer. We were talking every other day on Zoom calls and all that before I got an offer.”