Drexel Pair Facing Jail
Posted by admin in Ivy League Basketball, tags: College Basketball, college basketball news, drexel, drexel basketball, drexel basketball news, Ivy League Basketball, rick pitino, Rick Pitino newsAt a quiet time in the College Basketball and basketball betting world in general, the biggest news seems to be coming from the court-room, where Louisville coach Rick Pitino is part of an extortion case, and from Drexel, where the men’s hoops program could be about to fall apart.
Two players from the Philadelphia school, a member of the Colonial Athletic Conference, face robbery and weapons charges after an armed robbery took place at a fellow student’s apartment.
Police allege that starting point guard Jamie Harris and forward Kevin Phillip hatched a scheme with a third man to steal money believed to be on the premises in Western Philadelphia last week.
All three face robbery, theft and weapons charges but the Drexel players only turned themselves in almost 48 hours after arrest warrants were issued, some media outlets reporting them to be fugitives on the run from the law.
According to the police reports, the three accused managed to make it away with only two cell phones but the charges they face could mean serious sanctions personally, and will almost certainly mean trouble for the basketball team.
Harris is one of the better players on a squad that went 16-16 and would have been looking to push on towards claiming a place in the expanded March Madness field, but it remains to be seen whether he will be a part of the Dragons roster by the time practice starts in a couple of months.
Whatever the outcome, it is trouble that coach Bruiser Flint could have done without as he makes his plans for the season, and it seems unlikely according to most basketball predictions that he would ever have been thinking about having to prepare without his leading scorer and top producer of assists.
Without Harris, Drexel’s season could well be doomed before it even starts, and again it comes thanks to a story where you find it hard to think of anything to say but ‘Why?’ Harris could well have been looking at a career in the NBA – now prison might be more likely.
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