The Kansas men’s basketball program is about to incur plenty of scrutiny.
As if it wasn’t bad enough that five members of the team were interviewed in a rape investigation, there is now a report that another player hit a female student in 2015.
Then there’s Carlton Bragg, who is currently suspended for possession of drug paraphernalia.
Here’s are more details from Kansascity.com:
It isn’t known if Vick, a guard from Memphis, Tenn., was disciplined by the KU athletic department or coach Bill Self. There has been no public suspension of Vick. According to media reports, Vick missed two games in December 2015 — the 19th and 22nd — because of illness.
At the time, Self said: “He’s not feeling good. He’s not 100 percent.”
Jim Marchiony, KU associate athletic director for public affairs, told The Star on Monday night that coaches discipline players based on violations of team rules. He said each incident is considered separately.
“We’re not going to discuss the discipline in this case,” Marchiony said.
Marchiony said Self and Vick were aware The Star gave them an opportunity to comment but they did not.
News of Vick’s investigation by the school comes after a week in which the men’s basketball team has been under intense scrutiny.
Sophomore Carlton Bragg, who remains indefinitely suspended from competition, was charged last week in City of Lawrence Municipal Court with possession of drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor. University of Kansas police seized two glass smoking devices with residue during their investigation into a reported rape in December at McCarthy Hall, where the men’s basketball team and other male students live, but said there was “no indication that the drug paraphernalia is related to the sexual assault case.”
Wow. A lot of scrutiny about to come KU’s way. National media largely ignores off-court issues at Kansas b/c they like Self. https://t.co/q6TMCXSNVL
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) January 31, 2017
