Morehead State suspended coach Sean Woods for a game Friday after he pushed one of his players during a loss at No. 8 Kentucky.
Morehead State suspended coach Sean Woods for a game Friday after he pushed one of his players during a loss at No. 8 Kentucky.
Woods will sit out Monday night’s home game against Norfolk State while assistant Dylan Howard coaches in his place.
Morehead State athletic director Brian Hutchinson suspended Woods after meeting with the coach.
“This will allow coach Woods to consider his action and behavior, and allow him time to contemplate the appropriate way to conduct himself with his players and on the sideline,” Hutchinson said in statement released by the university.
The first-year Eagles’ coach pushed Devon Atkinson in the back Wednesday night as the senior point guard walked toward the bench after fouling out with 5:51 remaining. Woods said in a statement that “will not happen again.”
NCAA upholds suspensions
for 2 Indiana players
INDIANAPOLIS — Two players for No. 1 Indiana have lost their appeals for reduced suspensions.
Freshman forward Hanner Mosquera-Perea and freshman center Peter Jurkin must sit out the remaining four games of their nine-game suspensions including Tuesday night’s showdown with No. 9 North Carolina.
The NCAA ruled Nov. 6 both players would have to sit out after accepting benefits from an AAU coach who donated $185 to the school’s Varsity Club. The school says those donations stopped in 1992. Under NCAA rules, though, the coach still fits the definition of a booster. Neither would have been suspended had they chosen another school because the benefits are permissible under NCAA rules unless they are provided by a booster.
Indiana is 5-0.
Athletic director Fred Glass says he is disappointed by the rulings.