"News 3 Sports has confirmed that SIU men's basketball player Nick Evans has left the team. Sources tell sports reporter Kelly Burke that Evans left the team this week."Our original blog:
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As we began to wrote a Saluki blog post that had to do with the future of the Southern Illinois men's basketball team, we were dropped this nugget in our e-mail box.
(Which you could reach via bigdeadsidebar@gmail.com)
Via what we assume is his Facebook account, Evans announced he was leaving the Saluki basketball team.
Evans, a 6-foot-11-inch redshirt sophomore, was averaging 5.4 points and 3.1 rebounds in about 15 minutes per game for the Salukis, who are 13-10 overall and 5-8 in Missouri Valley Conference play.
He averaged 9.5 points and 4.0 rebounds per game through the team's first 10 games, but has only scored 19 points since the calendar turned to 2010.
Evans was suspended from Saturday's loss against UNI because of a violation of team rules, which sources tell TBDS the infraction was missing a study hours segment during the week.
We're working on confirmation from other sources, because kids can say the darndest things when they get their grubby little fingers on social media networks.
If Evans does leave SIU, he will become the eighth Saluki to ship out of Carbondale in the Chris Lowery era, joining Mike Dale, Brandon Wood, Joshua Bone, Jordan Armstrong, Torres Roundtree, Christian Cornelius and Ryan Hare. (And if you want to count Jamaal Foster, who left, but still got his degree from SIU, that's nine.)
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