SDS won his appeal!
Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 1:01 pm
Just got a text!
LAWRENCE
Kansas forward Silvio De Sousa has been cleared to play in the 2019-20 basketball season by the NCAA’s Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement, the organization announced Friday.
De Sousa had his appeal hearing with the NCAA committee on Friday morning.
“THANK YOU,” De Sousa tweeted on Friday afternoon.
In a release, the NCAA stated that its Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement “determined additional relief was appropriate” in De Sousa’s case.
The NCAA initially ruled on Feb. 1 that De Sousa must sit out the remainder of the 2018-19 basketball season and all of 2019-20 “because his guardian received payment from a university booster and agent and agreed to receive additional funds from the same person.” KU appealed the matter on April 18.
“This is great. We’re really happy for Silvio,” KU assistant coach Kurtis Townsend said on a golf course in California, where he is vacationing. KU coach Bill Self also is out of town on vacation. “We are excited to have him. He’ll make our team better. We got better today for sure. Silvio gives us a lot more depth inside. We have some of the best post guys for sure.”
