Andy Katz of ESPN is reporting that the NCAA alerted Memphis about problems with Derrick Rose’s test score approximately one month after it lost to Kansas in the NCAA title game of 2008.
An excerpt:
It was then that Memphis was first notified that star freshman point guard Derrick Rose, who helped the Tigers to an NCAA-record 38 wins and was soon going to become the No. 1 pick in the 2008 NBA draft by his hometown Bulls, had an invalidated standardized test score the previous year at Chicago’s Simeon High School, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the e-mail.
The University of Memphis’ legal counsel, Sheri Lipman, would not identify the student-athlete as Rose, but said Monday, “for the student-athlete, whoever that was, the first indication that we got was in early May [2008] that his score was being invalidated.”
Katz also says that Memphis’ response to the Jan. 16 letter could be made public later tonight or early Tuesday.
John Clay is a sports columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A native of Central Kentucky and graduate of UK, he covered UK football for 13 seasons before being promoted to columnist in 2000. He lives in Lexington with his wife and two sons. You can e-mail him at jclay@herald-leader.com.
Sounds like more proof that this is a non issue but more of a talking point during a dead time in sports. Sounds like a very serious non issue,….if that makes since. Really it only begs to ask the question “Why did they implement that damn one and done rule?” It only made a small issue into a serious problem…