Nevada point guard ineligible
Junior point guard Lyndale Burleson is ineligible for the fall 2007 semester, leaving the Nevada men’s basketball team with a significant void in its backcourt.
“We are disappointed,” Nevada coach Mark Fox said in a statement. “This is a unit (credit) issue and not grade-point average. We will work together to get Lyndale back in December.”
The fall semester ends on Dec. 21, meaning that Burleson theoretically could return to the court for the Wolf Pack’s Dec. 22 game against Northern Iowa and all of the conference season.
The 6-foot-3, 190-pound Burleson served as the backup to second-team All-WAC point guard Ramon Sessions last season. Burleson appeared in 33 games, including two starts, and averaged 1.7 points and 2.2 assists in 15 minutes per game.
As the only returning player to log significant minutes at the point last season, Burleson would have figured prominently in the battle for the Wolf Pack’s starting job this season.
Freshman Armon Johnson could get a shot at the starting job in Burleson’s absence, as could sophomore Brandon Fields, a shooting guard who played limited minutes at point guard last season.
The only other candidates would be All-WAC guard/forward Marcelus Kemp, who has excelled as a scorer on the wing over the last two seasons, senior Curry Lynch, who has played little during his time at Nevada, and sophomore transfer Ray Kraemer, who is known more for his work as a shooting guard than as a ball handler.
For Hylton’s take on Burleson’s absence and other issues surrounding Nevada athletics, check out “The Truth: The Blog.”
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