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-Gophers freshman Oto Osenieks hasn't enrolled yet due to NCAA Clearinghouse issues. He's currently competing for Latvia's under-20 national team. Osenieks said he hopes to have all of his academic issues cleared up in time for the start of fall semester.
"I know that I will not come to summer school for Minnesota," Osenieks said. "I will go to play with my Latvian national team. I pray God that I will be cleared by NCAA to play next fall. Hopefully everything is going to be OK."
-Haven't heard anything else on Mbakwe's status. He suffered a dislocated finger during a recent Howard Pulley summer league game. When I talked to him a few weeks ago, he said he hadn't made up his mind about transferring. He's scheduled to go to trial for felony assault in Miami July 26.
-Rumblings that White may end up with Fred Hoiberg at Iowa State.
White told me that he's hoping to appeal to the NCAA to regain his eligibility. He's currently academically ineligible to compete in the fall, meaning he'd have to pay his own way if he enrolled at any Division I school.
But White says he will ask the NCAA to allow him to play because he never attended his second-semester classes and that the NCAA should grant him eligibility based on his first semester, when he completed all of his courses and earned a 3.2 GPA.
I think it'll be tough to sway the NCAA on this one.
Coming Next Week: A conversation with Tubby Smith
I talked to Smith about a variety of topics a few weeks ago. Hear what he has to say about the program, his summer, Royce White and his 2010-11 starting point guard next week ....
-Gophers freshman Oto Osenieks hasn't enrolled yet due to NCAA Clearinghouse issues. He's currently competing for Latvia's under-20 national team. Osenieks said he hopes to have all of his academic issues cleared up in time for the start of fall semester.
"I know that I will not come to summer school for Minnesota," Osenieks said. "I will go to play with my Latvian national team. I pray God that I will be cleared by NCAA to play next fall. Hopefully everything is going to be OK."
-Haven't heard anything else on Mbakwe's status. He suffered a dislocated finger during a recent Howard Pulley summer league game. When I talked to him a few weeks ago, he said he hadn't made up his mind about transferring. He's scheduled to go to trial for felony assault in Miami July 26.
-Rumblings that White may end up with Fred Hoiberg at Iowa State.
White told me that he's hoping to appeal to the NCAA to regain his eligibility. He's currently academically ineligible to compete in the fall, meaning he'd have to pay his own way if he enrolled at any Division I school.
But White says he will ask the NCAA to allow him to play because he never attended his second-semester classes and that the NCAA should grant him eligibility based on his first semester, when he completed all of his courses and earned a 3.2 GPA.
I think it'll be tough to sway the NCAA on this one.
Coming Next Week: A conversation with Tubby Smith
I talked to Smith about a variety of topics a few weeks ago. Hear what he has to say about the program, his summer, Royce White and his 2010-11 starting point guard next week ....