We are both right and wrong, actually

Posted on: August 16, 2019 at 09:46:46 CT

It was Keith DeWitt who occupied that commitment. But my timeline was off. He remained committed after being routed through JUCO and had reconfirmed that commitment for that class. Then he re-opened his recruitment at some point that year and ended up going to Southern Miss I believe instead (I do remember him having a very good season at Southern Indiana after it not working out where ever he did decide upon). It wasn't his school being unaccredited that caused him not to show up that time.

To the detail oriented posters below, I apologize for egregiously misleading you. I was at the gym at the time and kind of absentmindedly responded.

As an interesting side-note on DeWitt, due to dropping out of high school he was actually turning 21 while playing for his prep school and ended up having to sit out the second semester due to a little used NCAA rule that would have made him ineligible had he played after his 21st birthday.

Charis Prep played its final game of the fall semester Dec. 19, one day before Dewitt - behind in school because of all the turmoil in his life growing up - celebrated his 21st birthday. Peralta said it was shortly after that time that Missouri coaches dialed his number to inquire if he knew about an NCAA age rule.

"I wasn't aware of it, and they weren't either," Peralta said of the MU coaches. "The NCAA called Missouri to tell them that once a kid turns 21, if he plays in any kind of basketball, even church league, where they keep individual scoring, they lose a year of eligibility, even if it's just one game."

Edited by FIJItiger at 09:53:03 on 08/16/19