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Big man Darien Williams kicked off the Nevada basketball team

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The Wolf Pack's thin roster of eligible scholarship players dropped by one Friday.

Darien Williams, a senior center who transferred to Nevada this season, was dismissed from the team by coach Eric Musselman for failing to meet the Wolf Pack's standards.

“We have requirements to be member of the Nevada basketball program and unfortunately, Darien has fallen short of those standards,” Musselman said in a news release.