Silvio De Sousa missed four games at Kansas last winter while awaiting NCAA clearance following his mid-school year high school graduation from IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.
“That was no fault of anybody he had to wait, I mean nobody. He got here at a certain time, you have to get cleared,” KU basketball coach Bill Self said Thursday at his weekly news conference at Allen Fieldhouse. “It took four games to get him cleared. It could seem like that’s frustrating, but he wasn’t ready to help us a week after he got here anyway. That wasn’t as big a deal.