By Adam Zagoria and Chris Barca

Italian sensation Federico Mussini is arguably St. John's best player at the moment and a key component of coach Chris Mullin's vision for the future. Entering Saturday's Big East game at Marquette, the 6-foot-1 freshman guard is leading St. John's (7-9, 0-3 Big East) in scoring at 13.1 points per game and ranks second in assists at 2.5 even though he is essentially playing out of position at point guard because freshman Marcus LoVett was deemed a partial qualifier.

Mussini's path to St. John's was far from ordinary, though. His recruitment certainly didn't unfold along traditional lines. In fact, when former St. John's staffer Derrick Wrobel first began watching Mussini at the Albert Schweitzer Tournament in Mannheim Germany in April of 2014, he had to do it on the computer -- not in person -- because the tournament doesn't allow college coaches. (Wrobel himself was not an assistant coach and thus wasn't on the road recruiting.)

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