Basketball: SLCC rival CSI lands player UConn expelled
Northridge High in Layton has a pair of players who have already committed to BYU and Utah, respectively, with safety Chris Washington saying he will become a Ute and running back Peni Maka'afi choosing the Cougars.
Check out our prep sports blog to read more about the players, and how they have battled injuries this season.
Maka'afi has a severely sprained ankle and Washington has played with a fractured bone in his foot.
---------------------
This next item surely will come as bad news to fans of Salt Lake Community College basketball.
The Bruins' chief rival, College of Southern Idaho, has just landed one of the best basketball players in the country.
According to Andy Katz of ESPN.com, Nate Miles arrived in Twin Falls on Tuesday and will play for CSI this season. He will be eligible to play in mid-December.
Miles, college basketball fans know, is the 20-year-old freshman who was expelled from UConn earlier this month.
Coach Jim Calhoun had called Miles the best offensive player on the team. The 6-foot-7 guard/forward from Toledo, Ohio, was considered one of the top shooting guards in the country coming out of the Patterson School in Patterson, N.C.
Miles was kicked out of UConn after he broke a restraining order against a 19-year-old woman by calling her within 20 minutes of the judge's ruling. He had allegedly abused the woman, a student from Manchester, Conn., according to the Hartford Courant.
Locally, the transfer has even more implications because coach Barret Peery recently left the head coaching job at CSI to be an assistant at Utah. However, most observers believe Miles will play a year of junior college ball and then declare for the NBA draft.
Check out our prep sports blog to read more about the players, and how they have battled injuries this season.
Maka'afi has a severely sprained ankle and Washington has played with a fractured bone in his foot.
---------------------
This next item surely will come as bad news to fans of Salt Lake Community College basketball.
The Bruins' chief rival, College of Southern Idaho, has just landed one of the best basketball players in the country.
According to Andy Katz of ESPN.com, Nate Miles arrived in Twin Falls on Tuesday and will play for CSI this season. He will be eligible to play in mid-December.
Miles, college basketball fans know, is the 20-year-old freshman who was expelled from UConn earlier this month.
Coach Jim Calhoun had called Miles the best offensive player on the team. The 6-foot-7 guard/forward from Toledo, Ohio, was considered one of the top shooting guards in the country coming out of the Patterson School in Patterson, N.C.
Miles was kicked out of UConn after he broke a restraining order against a 19-year-old woman by calling her within 20 minutes of the judge's ruling. He had allegedly abused the woman, a student from Manchester, Conn., according to the Hartford Courant.
Locally, the transfer has even more implications because coach Barret Peery recently left the head coaching job at CSI to be an assistant at Utah. However, most observers believe Miles will play a year of junior college ball and then declare for the NBA draft.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home