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Ohio State men's basketball: Scholarship decision pending
Team figures to lose one; a second hinges on rate of academic progress
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
By Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Ohio State expects to forfeit one men's basketball scholarship for next season. It is not certain yet whether it will have to give up a second.

The athletic department is awaiting word from the NCAA on the results of the latest Academic Progress Rate, which will not be announced publicly until May but is expected to be provided shortly to schools.

"It could be one, it could be two," John Bruno, the university's faculty athletics representative, said of the scholarship penalty.

He said he could not make an educated guess on which it will be.

"I think we're doing a good job with the basketball program," Bruno said. "I think the (players) are working hard. I think the academic support people are working hard. Obviously, Kosta didn't help matters."

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