Morning Five: 11.22.10 Edition
Posted by nvr1983 on November 22nd, 2010
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It looks like this whole
Bruce Pearl ordeal just got a whole lot more interesting as the SEC
suspended the Tennessee coach for the first eight games of SEC play. The suspension means that Pearl will not be able to coach the Volunteers in their SEC games between January 8th and February 5th nor will he be able to coach them during practices in the hours preceding/following those games
BUT (emphasis intended) he will be able to coach against
UConn and
Jim Calhoun, someone in a bit of hot water with the NCAA, on January 22nd, and against
Kentucky and
John Calipari, someone who always appears to be at the edge of the hot water with the NCAA, on February 8th. Pearl still has to go in front of the NCAA infractions committee in early February. Some pundits are
calling for Pearl’s head (figuratively, we think), but Pearl himself
does not think it will be such a big deal.
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The other piece of big news over the weekend was the NCAA clearing
Josh Selby to play for
Kansas this season. They
suspended Selby nine games, of which he has already missed three, for receiving $5,757.58 (or $4,607.58 if you believe Kansas) in impermissible benefits. Of course, some Kentucky fans are up in arms about
Enes Kanter being
ruled permanently ineligible for taking $33,033 (technically a little over 51 games worth if it was matched to Selby’s suspension) from his Turkish club, but it appears that the NCAA is differentiating between taking money on the side and being a professional.
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There’s some important injury news to get to, as two teams were hit hard this weekend.
NC State will be
without the services of Tracy Smith, who led the team in scoring (16.5 PPG) and rebounding (7.5 RPG) last season, for three weeks after he had to undergo arthroscopic surgery on his left knee on Friday. Smith’s absence will only put more pressure on beleaguered head coach
Sidney Lowe (can that be his new title: “beleaguered head coach?”). Meanwhile, a few hundred miles up the Atlantic coast, new coach
Kevin Willard will have to search for more scoring from his
Seton Hall team as gunner extraordinaire
Jeremy Hazell will be
out for 4-6 weeks with broken bone in his left wrist.
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Over the weekend,
Michigan brought back three-fifths of the Fab 5, which according to the NCAA never existed, to Crisler Arena.
Jalen Rose,
Jimmy King, and
Ray Jackson were all on hand for the Wolverines’ rout of
Gardner-Webb.
Juwan Howard was not available as he is currently “playing” for the Miami Heat (8.3 minutes per game in four appearances this year).
Chris Webber…well, according to the NCAA, Chris Webber never attended the University of Michigan. At least not for a few more years.
- Coming into the season we knew that UNC freshman Harrison Barnes would face unrealistic expectations. Now, we didn’t expect him to go 0-for-12 as he did against Minnesota on Friday, but our expectations were significantly lower that his hometown paper (see the headline).
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