Theo Davis quit the team today.
That's right -- the same Theo Davis who sat out a full year waiting for eligibility; the same Theo Davis who originally committed to Texas, had interest from UNC and ended up "playing" a "season" at Gonzaga; the same Theo Davis who everyone thought would be the final piece of our guard-centric puzzle.
Instead, Theo did nothing this year at all, missed the last few games as a healthy scratch/didn't-travel-with-the-team, and decided he was done today.
When Davis didn't make the trip to Vermont, Broadus deemed it 'academic reasons.' When Davis quit the team today, Broadus insisted that Davis is 'in good academic standing.'
Um, coach, you're contradicting yourself.
Whatever, this doesn't come as any surprise to me these days. This team could win out and I've still lost almost all faith.
Press & Sun-Bulletin Digital Editor Jeff Platsky went to Monday's Albany game and told me the team looked good, but they looked tired near the end of the game. I told him hey ... that's no surprise -- when two major pieces of your team (Davis and the indefinitely-suspended-for-reasons-still-unknown four-year-senior guard Dwayne Jackson) aren't playing, you're going to get winded.
Just ridiculous. Go Bearcats, yeah whatever. KB has literally spoiled my enthusiasm for my alma mater. Tremendous.
2.12.2009
2.01.2009
Comeback win vs. Maine
Nice little come-from-behind victory today as the team celebrated the five-year anniversary of the Events Center.
Brian Moritz writes that he began covering the 'Cats shortly after they moved to the Events Center. It's a shame -- that Jan. 31, 2004 game is probably one of my top-five BU basketball memories. Brandon Carter really, really lit it up that night. I still have the commemorative placard thing they gave out that day hanging on my wall.
Good win. Glad to see the students back.
Clearly, however -- no sign of Dwayne Jackson. I can hardly express how disappointed I am with D.J. -- who had always seemed like the model citizen, in the mold of Carter, Sebastian Hermenier and Mike Gordon.
Now the word is that Jackson is getting unique treatment in the media guide and annual statistics. Today's media guide doesn't even list Jackson on the roster anymore, although he does get a mention in the news section:
Senior wing Dwayne Jackson suspended indefinitely
Senior wing Dwayne Jackson was suspended indefinitely from the team prior to the Hartford game on January 19 for a
violation of team policy.
Then you check out the 2008-09 statistics:
Trust me when I tell you that I have absolutely no idea what Dwayne Jackson did, but if history provides any indication, he did something very, very bad. Pipe Dream's Cyril Cheriyan got this quote out of SID John Hartrick: “We can’t say anything much right now other than the fact that [Jackson] will not be back anytime soon.”
There's no doubt it's extremely embarrassing for the program to suspend one of its senior leaders "indefinitely." In my mind, it's more embarrassing for the athletics department to continue to cover up whatever it was that Jackson did. Silence does nothing but propagate more rumors and give the impression that you are trying to make things go away. Not that the BU athletics department would EVER try to stay silent on important legal matters -- oh wait, there's that whole Miladin Kovacevic international clusterf*ck that, of course, the BU athletics department has never said a peep about.
I'm going to stop short of making any bold declarative statements about the program this evening, but do take notice that the game results are far from the focal point of this post. My frustration with my alma mater is mounting. And, fellow ex-Bearcats I don't blame you if yours is, too.
Brian Moritz writes that he began covering the 'Cats shortly after they moved to the Events Center. It's a shame -- that Jan. 31, 2004 game is probably one of my top-five BU basketball memories. Brandon Carter really, really lit it up that night. I still have the commemorative placard thing they gave out that day hanging on my wall.
Good win. Glad to see the students back.
Clearly, however -- no sign of Dwayne Jackson. I can hardly express how disappointed I am with D.J. -- who had always seemed like the model citizen, in the mold of Carter, Sebastian Hermenier and Mike Gordon.
Now the word is that Jackson is getting unique treatment in the media guide and annual statistics. Today's media guide doesn't even list Jackson on the roster anymore, although he does get a mention in the news section:
Senior wing Dwayne Jackson suspended indefinitely
Senior wing Dwayne Jackson was suspended indefinitely from the team prior to the Hartford game on January 19 for a
violation of team policy.
Then you check out the 2008-09 statistics:
|---TOTAL---| |---3-PTS---| |----REBOUNDS----|
## Player GP-GS Min--Avg FG-FGA Pct 3FG-FGA Pct FT-FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO A TO Blk Stl Pts Avg
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02 Rivera, D.J........ 21-19 719 34.2 151-308 .490 31-93 .333 94-144 .653 47 80 127 6.0 56 0 17 37 8 36 427 20.3
03 Alvin, Malik....... 18-14 553 30.7 69-166 .416 13-45 .289 77-96 .802 13 46 59 3.3 48 3 80 59 6 28 228 12.7
21 x-Jackson, Dwayne.. 17-2 423 24.9 63-151 .417 33-96 .344 40-54 .741 23 42 65 3.8 37 1 15 15 4 11 199 11.7
25 Fuller, Reggie..... 21-19 645 30.7 75-140 .536 0-0 .000 33-49 .673 48 88 136 6.5 72 5 14 27 32 18 183 8.7
32 Mayben, Emanuel.... 21-16 645 30.7 62-152 .408 19-46 .413 37-55 .673 15 60 75 3.6 61 2 88 62 4 19 180 8.6
22 Watson, Sean....... 2-2 54 27.0 4-17 .235 0-5 .000 4-8 .500 3 5 8 4.0 3 0 0 2 0 4 12 6.0
34 Lukusa, Chretien... 16-2 322 20.1 21-56 .375 5-18 .278 15-31 .484 17 36 53 3.3 34 1 13 25 1 14 62 3.9
01 Camara, Moussa..... 14-5 168 12.0 15-35 .429 12-27 .444 11-13 .846 4 8 12 0.9 16 0 4 6 0 5 53 3.8
04 Herbert, Brandon... 20-5 228 11.4 21-57 .368 16-39 .410 2-5 .400 5 22 27 1.4 25 0 15 9 1 9 60 3.0
33 Sutton, Kyrie...... 17-12 223 13.1 12-36 .333 0-0 .000 7-19 .368 22 32 54 3.2 37 1 4 9 25 1 31 1.8
15 Fine, David........ 10-0 51 5.1 6-12 .500 1-3 .333 1-4 .250 0 1 1 0.1 4 0 3 9 0 4 14 1.4
50 Montgomery, Jaan... 19-9 130 6.8 7-19 .368 0-0 .000 3-7 .429 12 14 26 1.4 36 1 2 13 3 2 17 0.9
23 Davis, Theo........ 6-0 57 9.5 2-13 .154 0-0 .000 0-2 .000 0 11 11 1.8 11 0 9 12 5 2 4 0.7
24 Mullins, Matt...... 3-0 7 2.3 0-2 .000 0-1 .000 2-2 1.000 2 0 2 0.7 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0.7
TEAM............... 37 32 69 3.3 0 4
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total.............. 21 4225 508-1164 .436 130-373 .349 326-489 .667 248 477 725 34.5 440 14 265 289 89 153 1472 70.1
Opponents.......... 21 4225 477-1133 .421 118-359 .329 373-525 .710 257 497 754 35.9 412 - 274 311 78 130 1445 68.8
x-Inactive player
Trust me when I tell you that I have absolutely no idea what Dwayne Jackson did, but if history provides any indication, he did something very, very bad. Pipe Dream's Cyril Cheriyan got this quote out of SID John Hartrick: “We can’t say anything much right now other than the fact that [Jackson] will not be back anytime soon.”
There's no doubt it's extremely embarrassing for the program to suspend one of its senior leaders "indefinitely." In my mind, it's more embarrassing for the athletics department to continue to cover up whatever it was that Jackson did. Silence does nothing but propagate more rumors and give the impression that you are trying to make things go away. Not that the BU athletics department would EVER try to stay silent on important legal matters -- oh wait, there's that whole Miladin Kovacevic international clusterf*ck that, of course, the BU athletics department has never said a peep about.
I'm going to stop short of making any bold declarative statements about the program this evening, but do take notice that the game results are far from the focal point of this post. My frustration with my alma mater is mounting. And, fellow ex-Bearcats I don't blame you if yours is, too.
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