Kansas junior Dedric Lawson says he’s confident his frontcourt teammate, Silvio De Sousa, will play basketball for the Jayhawks this season.
“The truth will come out. Silvio says that all the time,” Lawson, KU’s 6-foot-9 junior forward from Memphis, said Wednesday at Big 12 men’s basketball media day in the Sprint Center.
It was announced early Wednesday morning, shortly after Lawson, Lagerald Vick, Udoka Azubuike and coach Bill Self entered the downtown Kansas City arena, that De Sousa, KU’s 6-9, 245-pound sophomore power forward from Angola, would be held out of Thursday’s 7 p.m. exhibition opener against Emporia State at Allen Fieldhouse as an eligibility review is conducted.