University of Kentucky basketball recruit Shawn Kemp...

University of Kentucky basketball recruit Shawn Kemp denied a report that he was “looking for a handout” when he visited Indiana University.

“That’s ridiculous. I never had any interest in anything under the table,” Kemp told the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune.

Former Indiana player Rick Calloway said that Kemp wanted to know what he could get if he decided to play with the Hoosiers.

“His main question just was: ‘Do you get things? Do they kick you all out (give you kickbacks)?’ I told him, ‘Naw, cuz, a week after we won the national championship it was just like a regular day,’ ” Calloway said in a telephone interview with the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Kemp said he did not even talk with Calloway during the recruit’s official visit to Indiana.