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Remember Aaron Pogue?
I was just scanning a retrospective on Cleveland State?s season and saw a name I had forgotten: Aaron Pogue.

The big man on Dayton Dunbar?s Division II state championship teams in 2006 (with Daequan Cook) and ?07 redshirted for the Vikings this past season after transferring from Vincennes College in Indiana, where he spent the 2007-08 season.

He was a late Division I academic qualifier in 2007 and by the time he achieved a qualifying score on his ACT, the major programs interested in him reportedly were out of scholarships. Pogue had an agreement with Vincennes to let him out of his scholarship if a Division I offer came open that summer, but before that could happen, Pogue was shot in the chest in an apparent random drive-by in Dayton. The bullet remains lodged near Pogue?s spinal cord.

Why bring this up on the blog? Cleveland State finishes its two-for-one series with Ohio State next season in Value City Arena, meaning if all goes according to plan, Pogue -- now listed at 6 feet 9 and 275 pounds -- will be back on the court where he helped Dunbar win its two state titles, facing a team that had interest him early in his career but gradually lost it.

Posted by Bob Baptist on March 25, 2009 2:57 PM