INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana thought he had finally one 7-foot to compete in the Big Ten.
Now the Hoosiers must fill a large gap.
School officials said Tuesday that native Martinique Guy-Marc Michel had been declared ineligible by the NCAA after five games with a team of professionals in 2007-2008 French club. Call the school has also been rejected because the Board had determined Michel had accepted a professional contract and had acceded to the College in 2006, which means that he has not enough time to regain eligibility before the end of his career College of five years after this season.
"Questions of its amateurism, generally sentencing to sit in a year, said Julie Cromer, sports associate principal Indiana compliance and administration." ""We knew that he had been there for three years, so we spent lot of time trying to find out what level of competition, it is in and this kind of choses.Il a lot of things right.»
This is not sufficient to convince the NCAA to give him a break.
The decision is a major blow to the Hoosiers resurgence, 6 - 0, taking their best start since 2002-2003.
Responsible for said Cromer school received the first 15 octobre.Le appeal process decision continued until the end of last week.
What can do exactly Michel, however, is floue.Il will remain on scholarships, school, school assistance and can work with coaches. It may not be suitable for the Hoosiers.
It can therefore practise?
"This is part of what we are still talking NCAA," said Cromer when calling Conference hastily called with journalists.
The case was complicated.
It has signed an agreement to play basketball club in France, but when it was called a top-level including professional club amateur team, Cromer said that the NCAA has decided that the agreement became a professional contract even if it was paid only normal and necessary expenses.
The biggest problem has become its admission in a French University.
Said Michel Cromer high school and College had the same name, making it difficult for compliance department Indiana to determine whether there had actually enrolled in college.Michel then played two seasons North Idaho College, a junior, College to join the Hoosiers this fall.
Division I athletes are allowed to compete for four seasons with a duration of five ans.Si would have been College of Michel last season.
The announcement came after Indiana flew to Boston, where the Hoosiers Wednesday in the ACC - Big Ten and coach Tom Crean challenge coin issued a statement by the Athletic Department.
"We are disappointed by this decision because all those involved in this process accepts that guy did not deliberately all that would have compromised its ability to play here or any number of institutions which also recruited him," said Crean. "Group us, evaluate our options and do everything we can to guy, who showed us that he deserves to be part of the UI program.»
Indiana an appeal based on a new NCAA rule which allows the international players such as Michel, to compete with professional teammates while retaining their status as an amateur, if they receive money to cover their costs.
But the Hoosiers win this argument, either.
"We had hoped to reasonable modifications would lead to a degree of flexibility in cases like this with relatively minimal participation and the fact he tried to stay amateur all the time," said Cromer. ""This is the basis for our call."
Michel average 7.1 points and 7.3 rebounds last season, North Idaho.
The Hoosiers will now have the productivity of 6–9 physical three forwards - admit Bobby Capobianco, Derek Elston and junior Tom Pritchard - to fill the void left by 277-Book Centre.
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