Arizona announced that freshman point guard Josiah Turner has been suspended indefinitely due to a violation of team rules.
If Turner doesn’t return to the program next year, as Jeff Goodman Tweeted was possible, it would mark the second straight year an Arizona point guard has departed the program.
Lamont “Momo” Jones parted ways with the program after last year and landed at Iona.
“Josiah Turner has been suspended indefinitely from our basketball team for a violation of team rules,” head coach Sean Miller said in statement.
“I am disappointed in Josiah for his actions. Unfortunately this suspension comes at a time of great excitement an opportunity for our team. However, the standards of our program will not be compromised under any circumstances. Hopefully, Josiah will learn a valuable lesson from this experience.”
Turner, a 6-foot-3, 192-pound freshman guard from Sacramento, Calif., is averaging 6.8 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game in 29 appearances this season (17 starts). He’s started 16 of the last 17 games for the Wildcats.
Turner will not accompany the team to Los Angeles for the Pac-12 tournament.
kungpaochicken / March 7, 2012
GangsterU anybody?
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zona95 / March 7, 2012
Funny stuff kungpao… with all of jessie’s rants about KU being GangsterU — it has certainly come back to haunt us. What a crazy year for us! All I can do is laugh at this point, and hope that we can get back on track next year. No concrete info on this, but my gut feeling says Turner will transfer, or try the pro route. If this is the case — we will be desperate for a PG next year….
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BostonCat / March 8, 2012
funny stuff.
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UofA BJ / March 8, 2012
If missing team flight makes u a gangster I guess so.
By all accounts Arizona needs to win tourney to get in and this kid decides he has better things to do. It truly is sad that kids like this continually piss away their future. Wouldn’t be surprised if he is not around next season, although I hope I’m wrong.
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BostonCat / March 8, 2012
maybe he does have better things to do. i mean….its the pac-12 tournament. its a 1 bid league. who cares really?
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UofA BJ / March 8, 2012
Lol so funny Boston cat.
Can’t wait till UK slips up in tourney, will be first to post. BC everyone except UK fans know u can’t win with freshman. And if by chance UK does win, enjoy it while it lasts bc it won’t last long.
Can you Kentucky folk spell vacate.
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BostonCat / March 8, 2012
if you cant win with freshman…then zona will suck again next year right?
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UofA BJ / March 8, 2012
Key Arizona players next year 2 seniors, 1 junior, 3 soph, 4 frosh I’d say that’s a pretty good mix. And I’m kidding about not winning with fresh and think UK and UNC are co favorites to win it all.
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kungpaochicken / March 8, 2012
BJ, you still sticking to 4 teams in the big boy tourney from the PAC?
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UofA BJ / March 9, 2012
Not looking like it but u never know if Oregon loses to Colorado they r out.
I think Washington is in even with loss to OSU.
Cal is in.
And Arizona is very iffy, I think if they win tourney and Oregon beats colorado and cal they could get four.
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BasketballSavant / March 9, 2012
Josiah is addicted to maryjane, and if he does not get it together it will derail his basketball career.
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