Final word came down on the James Wiseman situation today from the NCAA. The decision to suspend Wiseman until January 12th has been upheld, meaning the star freshman center won’t be able to play against Tennessee on December 14th.
Wiseman was ruled ineligible by the NCAA after allegedly accepting over $11,000 dollars from Penny Hardaway to move to Nashville during his high school years. That, of course, came a year before Hardaway become the head coach at Memphis. In this case, the NCAA viewed Hardaway as a booster of the Memphis basketball program before he took the job.