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Kim Aiken Jr. leaves WSU for Arizona before ever playing

Eastern Washington transfer Kim Aiken Jr. — who signed a financial aid agreement with Washington State in April and has been practicing with the team this summer — announced on Monday that he was changing course and heading to the Arizona Wildcats.

After he re-opened his recruitment last week, a source told us “it’s not a basketball/team issue,” and we have since confirmed that Aiken was denied admission to the political science graduate studies program, which also has been reported by Theo Lawson.

It’s a curious decision for the poli sci program to block the admission of a student who carries a 3.