Fifth-year senior forward Will Graves has been dismissed from UNC’s basketball team for failure to comply with team rules, coach Roy Williams announced in a statement Thursday afternoon.
“This is 100 percent not related to any NCAA matters on campus,” Williams said in a prepared statement. “I hate this for Will. He worked extremely hard this summer to get himself physically in the best shape he’s been in years, but he did not do everything he needed to do to be a part of our basketball program. This is a huge blow to our team, but an even bigger blow for Will. Playing for the Tar Heels meant so much to him.”
Graves red-shirted in 2006-07 then played in 92 games over the past three seasons – although he suspended mid-way though the 2008-09 NCAA title season for breaking team rules. A team spokesman would not say whether his dismissal was for the same reasons as his previous suspension.
Graves, a 6-foot-6, 240-pound forward from Greensboro, has scored 513 points at UNC, including 353 last year, when he averaged 9.8 points per game and was the Tar Heels’ third-leading scorer.
Robbi Pickeral
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Graves dismissed from UNC basketball team
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Sounds like someone has Ricky Williams-itis
"...although he suspended mid-way though the 2008-09 NCAA title season..."
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i say good riddance. graves only really liked to do one thing and that was shoot 3s. never seemed like a team player to me
Simply another entitled me-ism athlete. He should e forced to pay back his scholarship money. He'll fit right into the pros.
Will used the same "tutor" as the cats on the football team.
Weed, UNC Basketball, Weed, UNC Basketball? I think he had his chances to be a part of the greatest Basketball program outside of Durham, NC and chose the Wacky Tobaccy...
This is NOT the Carolina Way. Roy is not doing things the way that Coach Davis does and he should be consistent with disciplining, especially with smoking the weed.
He dug one grave in 2009 and now another in 2010. Looks like UNC ran out of Graves.
Typical Tar Holes drama...GO DUKE!
guess we can move Will's photo on over to the Party Pics page?
This is going to hurt our chances to make a deep CBI run this year. :(
Scholarships should be for SCHOLARS not athetes.
Will was lazy, and didn't want to play hard. Roy should have done this last year.
Will's career went up in smoke
Yet another kick in the pants for the Holes.
Why is the Disturber posting the 18-month old story "Heels bury Spartans for National Title" in the recent visible archives on the front of the Sports section?
Are the Holes THAT desperate for any remnance of good news?
This will hurt the Heels more than most think. Having a Sr play with these pups would have been important. Graves had a A-type personality, which is something drew nor Zeller possess. Expecting rookies to handle crunch time is going to be interesting. Subtracting 10 points and Grave's willingness to shoot, is going to hurt. I like the idea. I'm no heels fan.
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