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Top Northern Illinois player leaving school

A couple more player moves at Northern Illinois, in addition to Darion "Jake" Anderson leaving-

Probably their best player Xavier Silas, declares for the NBA draft. He has not hired an agent, and will likely return to the team. He lead NIU with 19.7 ppg last season, but was injured ealry and did not play against Bradley.
http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/colleges/post/_/id/331/nius-silas-declares-for-draft-may-stay-put

And 2 other current Huskies and part-time starters have announced they will leave NIU and transfer-
guard Mike Dinunno, their 4th leading scorer last year at 7.0 ppg, and Michael Fakuade, a 6'7" sophomore center.
http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/colleges/post/_/id/341/dinunno-fakuade-leave-niu
 
Da Coach said:
Probably their best player Xavier Silas, declares for the NBA draft. He has not hired an agent, and will likely return to the team. He lead NIU with 19.7 ppg last season, but was injured ealry and did not play against Bradley.
http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/colleges/post/_/id/331/nius-silas-declares-for-draft-may-stay-put
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Xavier Silas has withdraw from the NBA draft and will return to Northern Illinois for his senior season.
http://www.niuhuskies.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/042210aaa.html
 
He is similar to a number of short kids who sometimes do well in the MVC.
However, DiNunno shot only 31% overall, and 29% from three this past year. He was only 63% from the free throw line. Those numbers just aren't good enough. He will have trouble getting a D1 offer, IMO.
I wouldn't be surprised if Bradley landed a transfer, but there are some much better options available.;-)
 
Agreed. Not saying he's the best we could do.

But throwing out those numbers as proof that we can do better is a bit misleading for a couple reasons.

1) He's more of a scorer than a pure shooter.

2) He's a scoring point guard with multiple 20+ point efforts.

You're right because he was inconsistent and would be an upperclassmen he might not get another DI look. But for a 2nd or 3rd option at point, it is a nice insurance policy. Many schools are lucky if they have a competent backup at point. DiNunno at least has shown he can produce.
 
Da Coach said:
Darion "Jake" Anderson, who left Northern Illinois with 1 year of eligibility left, has transferred to Iowa State.-
http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=46661&SPID=4252&DB_OEM_ID=10700&ATCLID=204949239

Iowa State is hoping he can get a waiver from the NCAA to allow him to play next season. But I think the NCAA requires an academic reason for the transfer, or a hardship reason to grant this.
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If he was simply transferring you would be correct Da Coach. But he is graduating and he was released by NIU. He is going to go to grad school at ISU. If he was still working on his undergrad, then there would be no chance for a waiver, but because he wants to start grad school and NIU does not want him back, I would guess he will get his waiver and his experience will be greatly appreciated in Ames this year.
 
FarmerClone said:
If he was simply transferring you would be correct Da Coach. But he is graduating and he was released by NIU. He is going to go to grad school at ISU. If he was still working on his undergrad, then there would be no chance for a waiver, but because he wants to start grad school and NIU does not want him back, I would guess he will get his waiver and his experience will be greatly appreciated in Ames this year.
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He is simply transferring in the eyes of the NCAA, and I am correct on this one-
It is irrelevant whether NIU wants to extend his scholarship. That is never a reason to be granted a waiver from the NCAA rule that requires an athlete to sit out a year after transferring. For a short time, the NCAA did change that rule that allowed graduate students to transfer and play a final year of eligibility without penalty.
But then in early 2007, they revoked that rule change for Division I.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/08/ncaa

Now it requires a case-by-case appeal, and a waiver by the NCAA eligibility committee to do this. So I am not saying it's impossible, but usually they only grant such a waiver if the student is transferring because the course he wants to study in Grad School is not available at his initial school, but is available at the new school (is that the case?). The other reason the NCAA might grant such a request is referred to as "hardship", such as wanting to be closer to his home because of family issues.
Anderson does not appear to qualify for, and is not guaranteed such a waiver by the NCAA.
 
I believe that if a kid has graduated and wishes to pursue graduate school elsewhere, the NCAA will almost always let him transfer without restriction and be immediately eligible.

This just happened at Alabama, where a kid named Justin Knox got his degree but still has a year of basketball eligibility left.
But he wants to play his final year where his talent would afford him some more playing time, so he is free to go where he wants...
but the dispute is that Alabama won't release his scholarship unless he goes only to a school that's NOT on Alabama's schedule next year!
http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=12476725

BUT -- as far as transferring and being immediately eligible, that's reportedly already confirmed....
"Under NCAA rules, he could then transfer to a graduate program at another
school and be immediately eligible for his final year of competition."
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20100427/NEWS/100429573/1015
 
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