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Minnesota suspended three players for a violation of teams rules for Sunday’s loss to Illinois but the trio is expected to return for Wednesday’s game against Wisconsin.
Minnesota (8-20, 2-14 Big Ten) visits Rutgers (6-23, 0-16) in the Big Ten regular-season finale for both teams on Saturday. Rutgers, which hosts No. 6 Michigan State on Wednesday and hasn’t won a Big Ten game since January 2015, could be staring at an 0-18 league season by Saturday.
Nate Mason, Dupree McBrayer and Kevin Dorsey were suspended for Sunday night’s game at Illinois for violating team rules. Multiple reports indicated that Dorsey posted threesome sex videos on social media. The videos and his Twitter account were then deleted.
It remains unclear if Dorsey was in possession of his phone when the videos were posted. It’s possible he lost the phone or it was stolen prior to the videos being posted.
Either way, Minnesota coach Richard Pitino wasn’t happy.
“Obviously, culture and doing what’s right is extremely important to myself, our staff and our players,” he said in a statement. “I wake up every day, and I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity that I have to coach in an awesome basketball conference and to coach in a place where I consider my dream job. We’re going to do things the right way. Tonight wasn’t about wins and losses, it was about making sure our guys understand that this thing is bigger than just basketball. And we’re going to do what we believe is right. Unfortunately you may lose the battle, but you’re going to win the war. Today was unfortunately not as much about wins and losses but about the culture of our program. That’s something we work at every single day. And it’s extremely important to what we’re all about.”
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