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And the big sigh of relief you heard coming from the Myrtle Beach area yesterday was due to the NCAA finally giving its ruling on the violation with the men's basketball program. Coastal reported it back in July 2010 and it took them this long to figure out that one player wore an illegal t-shirt to his signing day ceremony. Meanwhile Coastal was forced to suspend its leading scorer in case there was more to it in than that for the rest of the season in February of this year, causing Coastal (along with other stuff going on) to completely collapse when they were on their way to a Big South title and potentially a good seed in the NCAA's.
It really took the NCAA this long to rule on a illegal t-shirt? Granted the stupid player involved lied to them about it which was just incredibly stupid and probably led to him leaving the program instead of facing the music. And they had to check the whole program out I suppose, but an illegal t-shirt reported back in July 2010 leads to this long of an investigation? ridiculous.
So at least the big weight hanging over the program is lifted and they will need it as LSU comes to town. This game was supposed to be the opening of the new arena Coastal is building, but of course its not ready yet, so LSU will have to play in tiny Kimbel Arena, holding about 1,000 people. Coastal played at LSU last season and shocked many with a upset win in overtime. Both leading scorers are gone from the team that did that and there were lots of questions about how good/bad Coastal would be this season. They beat up on two Division III teams to start this season so this will be the first real test for the new lineup.
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