Monday, March 20, 2006

Tisby out....

University of South Carolina senior center Antoine Tisby, coming off his best game of the season and one of the best of his career, has been suspended and his college career is "likely" over, coach Dave Odom said Monday.

The 6-foot-8, 237-pound Tisby won't play Tuesday night when USC (19-15) travels to Tallahassee, Fla., to face Florida State (20-9) in the second round of the NIT or probably again if the Gamecocks advance in the tournament, Odom said. "I would not think that he would be back with us," Odom said. "It's not likely that he would be back."USC's official news release said Tisby was suspended for a violation of team policy, but asked if he faced legal issues, Odom said, "No, no. I think it said academic, didn't it? It's a university deal."

This isn't the first time Tisby has been suspended. Odom suspended him this season against Wofford after Tisby overslept and missed practice. Last year, Tisby didn't play in USC's exhibition game or its opener because of what Odom called "time management" problems. Later, Tisby was suspended for three games for undisclosed reasons. Tisby's absence leaves USC with eight scholarship players and without a true post player. Ousmane Konate (ankle) and Keving Palacios (broken foot) are out with injuries.

Talk about bad timing.....I can only hope that some "black magic" will help us get past a good FSU team.....

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tisby is always doing something to kill our momentum. Last year he got home sick in the middle of the SEC season, and now he has done something to get kicked off the team. Granted he did have a great game against Western Kentucky, but he averages 12 minutes a game so the impact might not be as big as we expect. But with out a back up center we are going to have to play small ball the rest of the way.

Moose said...

well now that Clemson is gone, Maybe Carolina can prove we are the better program, even though Clemson has some pretty high recruits on there team.

Moose said...

Advice guy where are you, here is a question? How many dimples are there on a golf ball? Played golf for almost 6 hours on Friday and was just wondering>